Terms of service
Last updated: 13 August 2026
These terms govern your use of the Dicta app, the getdicta.ai website, and any plan you buy from us. Plain version: Dicta runs on your own device, we sell you a license to use it, and you can walk away at any time. The precise wording follows.
1. Scope and definitions
Your contract is with GetDicta UG (haftungsbeschraenkt), Johannisstr. 71, 50668 Koeln, Germany, represented by its Managing Director Birgit Herz ("we", "us", "Dicta"). You can reach us any time at [email protected]; full company details are in the Imprint. "You" means anyone who installs the app, joins our waitlist, or holds an account with us. "The App" means the Dicta dictation software for macOS, Windows and iOS; "Content" means the audio and text you dictate. These terms apply to both consumers and business customers; where the law gives consumers extra protection, that protection always wins over anything written here. Joining our waitlist only reserves your place and creates no charge or contract; the rest of these terms describe how things work once you start a trial or buy a plan.
2. Your account
Dicta does not require an account to dictate: the Free plan and the trial both work without one. An account exists only to manage your license: to activate a paid plan, view or change your billing, and use the referral program. You create it with a magic link sent to your e-mail address, so there is no password to manage or lose. Keep access to that e-mail address secure, since it is how we verify you, and let us know if you believe your account has been used without your permission.
3. Your license
A paid plan (Pro, Team, Enterprise or Lifetime) grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Dicta. It is a license to use our software, not a sale of it or of the intellectual property behind it: we and our licensors keep all rights in the app, its models and its brand. For a subscription plan, the license runs for as long as your subscription is active. For the Lifetime plan, your one-time payment buys a perpetual license to use Dicta, including future updates, for as long as we offer the app; it is still a license under these terms, not a transfer of ownership.
One license covers all of your own personal devices across macOS, Windows and iOS; please do not share your license with other people or run it on someone else's account. Team licenses are administered by the buying organization for its own members. Beyond what the law allows, please do not reverse-engineer the app or try to bypass the license mechanism.
4. Acceptable use
Please use Dicta for its intended purpose: dictating and transcribing your own content. Do not use the app to break the law, to infringe someone else's rights, or to interfere with how the app or our servers work. Do not resell, sublicense or share your license key, and do not try to circumvent usage limits or the license mechanism. We may suspend or terminate access for serious or repeated misuse, as described in Term and termination below.
5. On-device processing
Dicta is built to process everything locally. Speech recognition, vocabulary correction and the AI rewrite all run on your own device; your audio and text never travel to us or to any cloud service for processing. Pro, Team and Enterprise plans include a local MCP server that lets tools such as Claude or Cursor read your dictations and meeting notes; it listens on localhost only and is never reachable from outside your machine. What little the app does send over the network (model downloads, update checks, license checks) is described in the Privacy Policy, and none of it carries your dictated content.
6. Beta and preview features
From time to time we may offer beta or preview features: early access to something we are still testing. We label these clearly. Beta and preview features may change, misbehave or be withdrawn at any time, and may not carry the same support or notice-of-change commitments as generally available features. Nothing about a beta feature reduces your statutory rights.
7. Dicta Meetings
Dicta Meetings, local meeting transcription and AI notes that run fully on-device, is planned to ship after the core dictation product launches. Once available, it is included with the Pro, Team and Enterprise plans at no extra cost; it is not part of the Free plan. Until it ships, any reference to Dicta Meetings in our marketing or in these terms describes a planned feature, not one you can use today.
8. Free trial
Pro comes with a 7-day free trial of the full Pro feature set. The trial needs no payment card and no account to start. When it ends, the paid features are disabled, but your settings, history and locally stored data stay on your device and remain accessible on the Free plan. You are never charged for the trial, and it never turns into a paid plan on its own.
9. Plans, pricing and payment
Free gives you basic transcription at no cost, with no account and no card. Paid plans are Pro (EUR 4 per month or EUR 40 per year, with verified students getting 50% off at EUR 2 per month or EUR 20 per year), Team (EUR 60 per user per year, annual only) and Enterprise (custom pricing, coming soon; contact us at [email protected]). We also offer a Lifetime plan for EUR 120 as a one-time payment; this launch price is valid until 31 October 2026 and may rise afterwards.
Payment, invoicing and tax are handled by our payment provider, Stripe. Prices are shown including or excluding VAT as required; Stripe Tax calculates the applicable VAT, and business customers can enter a VAT ID at checkout (a valid EU VAT ID triggers the reverse-charge procedure). We do not store your card details; those stay with Stripe.
10. Renewal and cancellation
Subscription plans (Pro, Team) renew automatically for the same period unless you cancel before the renewal date. You can cancel any time from the Stripe customer portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, with no notice period and no cancellation fee. The Lifetime plan is a one-time payment and does not renew. We may end your access for good cause, for example serious misuse of your license, as described in Term and termination.
11. Right of withdrawal and refunds
If you are a consumer in the EU, you have the right to withdraw from your purchase within 14 days without giving a reason. Tell us clearly within 14 days of the contract starting (an e-mail to [email protected] is enough), and we refund what you paid.
Dicta is digital content supplied other than on a tangible medium. If you ask us to give you immediate access before the 14 days are up, we will ask you to confirm two things: that you want us to start straight away, and that you understand you lose your right of withdrawal once we have fully performed, that is once your access has been provided. Without that confirmation, your 14-day right stays intact.
12. Referral program
Once you are a paying customer, you get a personal invite code. When someone new subscribes with it, both of you get one month free: the invitee sees it applied at checkout, and you get a one-month credit on your next invoice. Credit is granted only after the invitee's first successful payment, and self-referral does not count. Using the referral program needs the magic-link account described above.
13. Intellectual property
Dicta, the Dicta name and logo, and the underlying software and models are our property or licensed to us, and nothing in these terms transfers ownership of any of it to you. Your license under these terms gives you the right to use the app; it does not give you any right in our trademarks, source code or models beyond what is needed to use the app as intended.
14. Your content
Because dictation runs on your device, your audio, transcripts, custom vocabulary and writing styles stay there: we do not receive, store or claim any right in them. We do not need a content license from you because we never see your content in the first place. You are responsible for what you dictate and for keeping your own backups; a device is not a backup strategy.
15. Availability and updates
Because Dicta runs on your device, it keeps working without us: there is no server that your dictation depends on, and we make no uptime promise for a cloud that dictation does not use. The app checks for updates and downloads the speech and rewrite model files from a model host the first time you need them. Release builds ship with no telemetry beyond what licensing needs; only explicit test builds, clearly marked as such, may collect additional diagnostic telemetry to help us improve the app, and even then never your dictated content. We may release updates that fix, improve or change features over time; if a change would materially reduce what a paid plan offers, we will tell you in advance.
16. Warranty
We warrant that Dicta matches the description we give it and is fit for the purpose a dictation app is ordinarily used for. For paid plans that run for a period (Pro, Team, Enterprise), we owe defect-free provision throughout that period; the statutory remedies of German and EU consumer law (repair, an update, a price reduction, or ending the contract) apply as the law provides. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any warranty right you have by law.
17. Liability
We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, and for injury to life, body or health, as well as where German product-liability law or a guarantee we gave applies. For slight negligence we are liable only if we breach an essential duty (one you must be able to rely on for the contract to work), and then only for the foreseeable, typical loss. Otherwise our liability for slight negligence is excluded. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
18. Term and termination
A subscription runs for the period you chose and renews for the same period unless you cancel before it renews, as described in Renewal and cancellation. The Lifetime plan runs for as long as we offer Dicta and needs no renewal. We may end the agreement for good cause, for example serious or repeated misuse of your license. When a subscription ends, paid features are disabled, but your locally stored settings, history and content stay with you on your device.
19. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example to reflect new features or legal requirements. We will give you reasonable notice of material changes before they take effect. If a change disadvantages you and you do not agree, you can object and end your subscription for the date the change would apply; we will point this out when we notify you. Continued use after a change takes effect counts as acceptance of the updated terms.
20. Governing law and jurisdiction
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice never takes away the mandatory protection of the law of the country where you live. For business customers, merchants and public bodies, the place of jurisdiction is Cologne (Koeln). You can also raise a consumer complaint through the EU online dispute resolution platform linked in our Imprint; we are not obliged and not willing to take part in proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
21. Severability
If any part of these terms turns out to be invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force. The invalid part is replaced by a valid provision that comes as close as possible to its intended purpose, or by whatever the applicable statute provides.
22. Language of these terms
These terms are written in English, and we translate them into the other languages the site is offered in for your convenience. If a translation and the English version conflict, the English version prevails, except where mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence requires otherwise.
23. Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected], or the postal address in the Imprint.