Terms of use

1. Scope and contract

1.1 These terms apply to any use of Aiolos, with or without a license key. You are a consumer if you use Aiolos mainly outside a trade, business or self-employed profession (§ 13 German Civil Code, BGB).

1.2 The license contract is formed when you activate your key in Aiolos and accept these terms.

1.3 You must be at least 18 years old.

1.4 Aiolos runs on Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 15 or later. The app and getaiolos.com describe what it does; the version you have installed is what counts.

2. The early bird license

2.1 The first 50 people to sign up and confirm their email address get Aiolos free as early birds. We decide whether there will be further rounds.

2.2 "For life" means your license has no expiry date. It ends only if you end it or we terminate it for good cause (section 12). We don't terminate it with ordinary notice.

2.3 You get a personal license key for one device: a Mac or, once Aiolos is available for it, a Windows PC. To switch devices, sign out the old one in the app ("Sign out this Mac" or "Sign out this PC") and enter the key on the new one. If you can't, say because the old device is broken, write to us.

2.4 The condition for a spot is your consent to marketing emails from us (with double opt-in). You can withdraw it at any time and keep your license.

2.5 You use the cloud AI with your own OpenRouter key; you contract with OpenRouter yourself and pay it directly. Speech recognition (Whisper) and the optional offline AI run on your Mac.

2.6 Updates are free for as long as we offer them to early birds; if we stop, we'll tell you first. You have no claim to new versions, and without them Aiolos may stop working on future macOS versions. Either way, you may keep using your version indefinitely. Our statutory duty to provide consumers with necessary updates, including security updates (§ 327f BGB), is unaffected. If you don't install such an update within a reasonable time, we aren't liable for defects caused solely by that.

3. Paid licenses (future)

We may later offer Aiolos for a fee, for example as a subscription with the AI through our server. A reseller (merchant of record, such as Paddle or Lemon Squeezy) would then handle the purchase, under its own terms for purchase, payment and withdrawal. We'll add the rules for use here before sales begin.

4. Your rights to Aiolos

4.1 Aiolos is protected by copyright and belongs to us. You get the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use it for your own private and business purposes, including work for your employer or clients: with a license key on one device (Mac or Windows PC) at a time, as an early bird indefinitely. You get no rights to the source code, the name "Aiolos" or the logo.

4.2 Open-source software and third-party models in Aiolos, such as Whisper and Gemma, come under their own licenses, listed in Settings → About Aiolos. Where they give you more rights, they prevail. Your rights under §§ 69d and 69e German Copyright Act (UrhG), such as a backup copy, are unaffected.

5. What is not allowed

You may not:

• pass on, sell, rent out or publish your key, or make Aiolos available to others, for example as an online service;
• circumvent or alter the license check, or use someone else's key;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify Aiolos, except as §§ 69d, 69e UrhG or an open-source license allow;
• use Aiolos unlawfully, for example to record conversations without the required consent (section 7), or disrupt our servers.

6. License check and availability

6.1 Aiolos checks your license online, sending your key, an identifier of your Mac and its model to our server. After each check it runs for 30 days without internet; when online, it checks again about once a day.

6.2 If no check succeeds for 30 days or your license ends, Aiolos turns off the AI features. Raw dictation and meeting transcripts currently keep working; your meetings and notes stay on your Mac.

6.3 We try to keep our servers available but don't promise uninterrupted availability, nor for third-party services. If we permanently stop the online check, for example because we discontinue Aiolos, you'll first get a version that runs without it.

7. Recording meetings: your responsibility

Aiolos records the microphone and system audio with no bot in the call, so others won't notice on their own. Tell everyone beforehand and get their consent where the law requires it. In Germany, recording other people's privately spoken words without authorization is a crime (§ 201 German Criminal Code, StGB); other countries have their own rules. Under the GDPR, you (or your employer), not we, are responsible for other people's personal data in transcripts and notes.

8. AI results and third-party services

8.1 Transcripts, corrections, translations, the Assistant's answers and meeting notes are generated automatically and can be wrong, incomplete or made up. Check them before you send, publish or rely on them, especially in medical, legal, financial or safety-critical matters.

8.2 OpenRouter, Notion, Microsoft OneNote and other services have their own terms and privacy policies. Text goes to OpenRouter only when you use cloud AI, and to Notion or Microsoft only when you export there. We aren't responsible for these services, their availability or prices; if they change or end their offering, we may adapt or remove the integration. Keep your OpenRouter key secret.

9. Your data and content

Your recordings, transcripts and notes belong to you and stay on your Mac; we only see them if you send us something yourself, for example with your feedback. What we process is set out in our privacy policy: getaiolos.com/en/privacy. We may use your feedback to improve Aiolos. Back up important data regularly.

10. Defects

10.1 If you are a consumer, you have the statutory rights for defects in digital products (§§ 327 et seq. BGB), including with the free early bird license (§ 516a BGB).

10.2 Otherwise, for free use, gift law governs defects (§§ 523, 524 BGB): we are liable only if we fraudulently concealed them, and in the cases of 11.1.

11. Liability

11.1 We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, for fraudulently concealed defects and as far as we gave a guarantee.

11.2 For free use, including the early bird license, we are not liable beyond that, in line with the statutory standard for gifts (§ 521 BGB). If that standard doesn't apply to your use, 11.3 applies.

11.3 For paid licenses, we are liable for slight negligence only if we breach an essential contractual obligation: one whose fulfillment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on which you may regularly rely. Our liability is then limited to the damage typical for the contract and foreseeable when it was concluded. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded.

11.4 Contributory fault, such as a missing backup, is taken into account (§ 254 BGB). These limits also protect our employees and agents.

12. End of the license

12.1 You can terminate your license at any time without notice, for example by email; we'll then delete your key.

12.2 We can terminate your license and block your key only for good cause, above all for breaches of section 5. As a rule we warn you first, but not for serious breaches such as selling your key. Withdrawing your marketing consent is no reason for termination.

13. Changes to these terms

13.1 We may change these terms for the future for a valid reason, such as new laws, new features or security, if the balance of what each side gives does not shift to your disadvantage.

13.2 We'll send you the changes at least six weeks ahead by email or show them in the app. If you don't object before they take effect, they apply; the notice will point this out. If you object, the previous terms continue to apply to you.

13.3 We will change the core of your early bird license to your disadvantage only with your express consent: free, no expiry date, one device, AI with your own key, your version stays yours.

14. Law, jurisdiction, dispute resolution

14.1 German law applies, excluding the UN Sales Convention (CISG). As a consumer habitually resident in another country, you keep the protection of that country's mandatory law (Art. 6(2) Rome I Regulation).

14.2 If you are a merchant (Kaufmann), a public-law legal entity or a public-law special fund, the place of jurisdiction is our place of business in Bad Wörishofen, Germany.

14.3 We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

15. Final provisions

15.1 If a provision is invalid, the rest remain valid; the statutory provision takes its place.

15.2 These terms exist in German and English. The German version prevails.

15.3 Questions? Write to support@getaiolos.com.