Terms

Updated 2026-10-27

These terms are the license you get with Utterline, and they are short on purpose.

Who sells it

You pay in USDC, and we sell Utterline to you directly. If we also offer payment by card, Polar sells it to you as the seller of record: it takes the payment, charges any sales tax or VAT, and sends the receipt, under its own buyer terms. Either way, the right to use the app comes from us, under these terms.

Paying in USDC

• The price is 29 USDC, which is 29 US dollars. Nothing is added to it at checkout.
• Your order gets a deposit address of its own, on the network you choose: Base, Arbitrum One, OP Mainnet, Polygon PoS or Ethereum, and only USDC on that network counts. The order stays open for 14 days.
• A payment up to 0.50 USDC short of the price is accepted, to cover an exchange's withdrawal fee.
• A blockchain payment can't be reversed, and anything sent in another token, on another network, or after the order has closed is not credited. Write to us with the transaction link and we will look into it.
• When the payment is confirmed, your license key appears on the order page and we email it to you.

What is free and what a license adds

Every feature works for 30 days from the first time you open Utterline on a Mac. After that, dictation with a model on your Mac stays free, under these same terms. A license keeps four things:

• Transcribing through a cloud service with your own key
• Transcribing a file or a link
• Find and replace
• Saving a transcript to a file

Your license

• A license is for one person. Use it on any Mac you use yourself. On a Mac that several people use, each of them needs their own.
• Your license does not expire, so you can keep using any version it covers for as long as you like. We can't promise that a future macOS will still run an old version.
• Every 0.x and 1.x update is included. If a later major version is ever a paid upgrade, you choose whether to buy it.
• Don't publish your key or give it to others to use. Your name and email are written into it. A team needs one license per person.
• If your key leaks or you lose it, write to us from the email you bought with and we will send it again, or issue a new one.

What you may not do

• Change or remove the license check to unlock paid features, for yourself or for anyone else.
• Record or transcribe anything you don't have the right to. Getting consent where the law asks for it, and following the terms of any site you take a link from, is up to you.

When a license ends

A refund ends the license for that purchase. So does sharing or selling a key. Later versions may stop accepting a key whose license has ended. We will not reach into a copy on your Mac: Utterline checks keys on the Mac and never reports back.

Your content

What you dictate is yours. Utterline processes it on your Mac, or with a service you choose (see Privacy). We claim no rights in it and do not see it.

Cloud services you connect

If you add a key for a cloud service, your use of that service is between you and its provider, under its terms and its pricing.

Open source

Utterline is built on Handy, by CJ Pais, and on other open source software. Utterline itself is licensed to you under these terms. The open source components listed in the app under About, All Licenses stay under their own licenses, and nothing here limits what those licenses allow.

Warranty and liability

If you buy as a consumer, the law where you live may give you a guarantee that the app works as described, and nothing here reduces it. Beyond that, Utterline is provided as is. Speech recognition makes mistakes; check anything important before you send it. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability is limited to what you paid for your license, or 50 US dollars if you paid nothing.

None of this limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for harm caused on purpose or through gross negligence.

Refunds

See Refunds: 30 days, no questions asked.

Changes

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. A change applies to purchases made after that date and to updates released after it. It never takes away a license you already have.

Who we are

Utterline is made by Useful Computing, a brand of Tidy Machines LLC, a Wyoming company. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without taking away any protection the consumer laws of your country give you. Contact: support@usefulcomputing.com.