Terms of Use and License
These terms are an agreement between you and Unified Software Solutions LLC (“we”, “us”) for the Manutius application for macOS (“Manutius” or “the app”) and the manutius.app website. By downloading, installing or using Manutius you agree to them. If you don’t agree, don’t use the app.
1. License
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Manutius on up to three (3) Macs that you own or control, for the term described in section 3. You may not sell, rent, sublicense, share your license key, reverse-engineer the app except where the law allows it, or remove any notices from it.
2. Trial
Manutius may be used free of charge for 14 days from first launch, with all features. After the trial the app becomes read-only: you can still open your books and copy your text out, but you cannot edit or export until a license is activated. Your book files always remain yours and readable.
3. Purchases, subscriptions and renewals
- Lifetime license: a one-time payment. It never expires and includes updates to the app for as long as we publish them.
- Monthly and yearly subscriptions: billed in advance and renewed automatically at the end of each period until cancelled. You can cancel at any time on the cancellation page, on the manage page or by writing to us; the manage page is also where you switch between monthly and yearly, move to the lifetime license or update your card; the app keeps working until the end of the period you paid for, then becomes read-only.
- Purchases are handled by Stripe as the seller of record: Stripe collects the payment, issues the receipt or invoice and charges any sales tax or VAT that applies. Prices on the English pages are in US dollars; on the German pages in euros including VAT. The license itself comes from us under these terms.
- If a subscription payment fails, we allow a short grace period before the app becomes read-only.
4. Refunds
If Manutius isn’t right for you, email hello@manutius.app within 14 days of a purchase or first subscription payment and we will refund it. A refund revokes the license key. Renewal payments are not refundable once the new period has started, but you can cancel so no further renewals occur.
5. Your content
Everything you write in Manutius is yours. The app stores your books as files on your Mac and does not upload them to us. Optional features that involve third parties (see section 7) send only what you choose to send, and only when you use them.
6. Updates and availability
Manutius checks for updates and may download and install them. Licensed features occasionally verify the license with our server; the app tolerates being offline for extended periods. We may change or discontinue features, and we may retire the license server with reasonable notice, in which case we will provide a way for lifetime licenses to keep working.
7. Third-party services
Some features rely on services we don’t operate: Stripe (payments), Apple (notarization and updates delivery via GitHub), Hugging Face (one-time download of the voice model for Listen), and Anthropic’s Claude Code, or another AI app you connect through Assist, if you choose to use the AI features with your own accounts. Their terms apply to those services. Output produced by AI features is your responsibility to review.
8. No warranty
Manutius is provided “as is”. We do our best to make it reliable, and we recommend keeping backups (the app makes them automatically), but we don’t promise it will be free of errors or fit for a particular purpose. Always proof a printed copy before publishing.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from Manutius or these terms is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, including lost data or lost profits.
10. Termination
We may terminate your license if you materially breach these terms (for example by distributing license keys). You may stop using Manutius at any time. Sections 5, 8 and 9 survive termination.
11. Changes and contact
Affiliates who recommend Manutius are bound by the Affiliate Program Terms. We may update these terms; the effective date above will change and material changes will be noted in the app or on this page. Questions: hello@manutius.app.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the mandatory consumer-protection rules of the country you live in still apply, and the German version of these terms governs purchases made on the German site.