Terms

What this covers

Aloud is a Mac app for recording product feedback — your voice, a live transcript and your screen — and exporting it as one file. These terms cover the app, the account it signs you into, and this website.

You accept them by ticking the box on the sign-in screen, beside the one line that says what the app sends. The box is not ticked for you and the app will not send a code until it is. If these terms change in a way that changes what you agreed to, the app asks again rather than assuming.

Aloud is made by Brain function collapse, and "we" below means exactly that.

Your account

An account is an email address you can receive a six-digit code at. There is no password. Keep access to that inbox: anyone who can read the code can sign in as you. One account is for one person — do not share it — and you must be old enough to enter a contract where you live.

You can delete the account from Profile → Delete account in the app, at any moment and without asking us. We can close an account that is being used to attack the service or to break the law, and will say why when we do.

What you record stays yours

Recordings, transcripts, screenshots and the reports you export are your content. We claim nothing in them, and we do not train models on them. Recording, transcription, annotation and export happen on your Mac.

The AI steps — Clean up, the follow-up questions, Add screenshots and the plan — are the ones that need our server, because the model that does the work runs there. Running one sends us the transcript text of that session, the notes and answers you typed into it, and the still frames the app looks at to place a screenshot. That is what the steps are; there is no version of them that works without it. We keep what was sent for ninety days, so that we can see where a step got something wrong and fix it, and it is deleted after that. Privacy sets it out in full.

Your audio and your screen recording are never sent — not to us and not to the model. Neither is a session you never run a step on. If you would rather nothing at all left your Mac, record, transcribe, annotate and export without the AI steps: all of that works on its own.

You are responsible for what you record. If your screen or your voice carries someone else's confidential information, that is between you and them — decide before you press record, not after.

Fair use of the free tier

Transcript cleanup runs on inference we pay for, so it comes with a limit: a number of free cleanups an hour, per account and per network. The number is shown in the app and can change. Working around that limit — several accounts, scripted requests, anything automated — is not on, and is the sort of thing an account gets closed for.

What is not promised

Aloud is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available, that a recording will succeed, that a transcript will be accurate, or that a cleanup will keep the meaning of what you said. Transcription is a model's best guess and screen recording depends on permissions macOS controls, not us. Read what you export before you send it to anyone.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost recordings, lost work, lost profits, or anything that follows from relying on the app. Your sessions live on your own Mac and nowhere else — back them up if they matter, because we cannot recover them for you.

Changes, and ending it

The app changes; so may these terms. When they do, the date at the bottom of this page changes with them. Small corrections take effect as they are published; a change to what you actually agreed to — what is sent, what is kept, how long for — is put in front of you in the app, with the same box to tick, and nothing about your account changes until you answer. If you would rather not, delete your account and stop using the app — that ends the agreement, and the copy on your Mac is yours to keep or delete as you like.

These terms are governed by Polish law, and by the mandatory consumer protections of wherever you live, which nothing here takes away.

Asking

Anything unclear here, write to hello@aloud.sh. Anything about your data — a copy of it, or its deletion — is privacy@aloud.sh, which Privacy gives too.

Last updated 20 August 2026.