Terms and Conditions
The agreement between you and Aloud, in the plainest form it can be put. What is stored and what is not is a separate page: the Privacy Policy.
What this covers
Aloud is a Mac app and an iPhone app for recording product feedback — your voice, a live transcript, your screen and your screenshots — and exporting it as one file. These Terms and Conditions cover both apps, the account they sign 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 they 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 Mac app, or Settings → Account → Delete account on the iPhone, 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 device — on the iPhone, transcription is Apple's own on-device speech recognition.
Sync keeps your notes the same on your Mac and your iPhone, so it stores them on our server: each note's text, title and typed notes, its screenshots (the original image, with your crop and annotations), the names of your projects, your Names list and your custom workflows. They are kept until you delete them — a deleted note is deleted here too — or until you choose Delete synced copies in Settings → Sync, or delete your account. Pausing sync there stops it sending anything more. The Privacy Policy has the detail.
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. The Privacy Policy sets it out in full.
Your audio and your screen recordings are never sent — not to us and not to the model, not by sync and not by the AI steps. They stay on the device that made them. If you would rather nothing at all left your device, pause sync and 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 app shows how much of it you have used, and the number 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 and iOS control, 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. Sync is a way to have your notes on two devices, not a backup: a note deleted on one goes to the Trash on the other, and your recordings are only ever on the device that made them — back them up if they matter, because we cannot recover them for you.
Changes, and ending it
The app changes; so may these Terms and Conditions. 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 copies on your devices are yours to keep or delete as you like.
These Terms and Conditions 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 the Privacy Policy gives too.
Last updated October 8, 2026.