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Licence agreement and terms

The terms for using and buying Tapelark — the licence, the trial, updates and upgrades, private use, and the limits of our liability.

Last updated: 8 October 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Victor Antofica, Albisstrasse 29, 8800 Thalwil, Switzerland, the developer of Tapelark ("we", "us"). They apply when you download, install or use Tapelark, or buy a licence for it. If you do not agree, do not use Tapelark. If you buy Tapelark, Link's terms of sale also apply to the purchase itself (see Buying below).

1. The licence

Tapelark is licensed, not sold. When you buy a licence, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for one person to use Tapelark on all the Macs that person owns or controls, without a time limit, for the version you bought and its updates (see section 3).

You may not:

  • share your licence key with other people or publish it, or let others use Tapelark with it;
  • sell, rent, lend or sublicense Tapelark or a licence key, except with our written consent;
  • copy, modify or create works based on Tapelark, or decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer it, except where the law allows this despite this restriction;
  • remove or get around the licence check, the trial or any of Tapelark's limits.

All rights not expressly granted remain ours. Tapelark includes open-source components, such as Sparkle and GRDB, under their own licences.

2. Free trial and free version

You can use Tapelark free for 14 days with every feature, Pro features included. After the trial, Tapelark becomes the free version: each recording stops after 10 minutes, and everything recorded so far is saved. You may use the free version as long as you like under these terms.

3. Updates and upgrades

  • Updates within a major version (for example 1.0 to 1.4) are free.
  • Major versions (for example 2.0) are paid upgrades at a reduced price. A major upgrade is free for licences bought in the six months before that version is released.
  • Your licence keeps working with the version it was bought for, also after a new major version is released.
  • Tapelark to Tapelark Pro is an upgrade at the difference in price, shown on the pricing page.

Tapelark checks for updates only as you set it, and installs one only after you agree. We may change, add or remove features in future versions; a version you are licensed for keeps working as it was.

4. Private use, and the law

Tapelark is for recording audio and video for your own private use. You are responsible for what you record and for following the terms of the services you use and the copyright and other laws where you live. You may not use Tapelark to infringe anyone's rights, to distribute recordings you are not allowed to distribute, or to record people where the law forbids it.

Tapelark never gets around copy protection, and you may not use it, or try to use it, for that. When Tapelark sees that a source is protected, it stops recording it. See Private use.

5. Third-party services

Some features use services run by others: radio stations and a public radio directory, podcast feeds and Apple's podcast directory, cover and track-information services, and Apple's Shazam service when you turn it on. They are offered by those parties under their own terms, may change or stop, and are not part of what we sell. We are not responsible for their content or availability.

6. Buying

Tapelark is sold through Link, Stripe's checkout, which is the seller of record: Link takes your payment, issues the receipt, applies your country's VAT or sales tax, and its terms of sale apply to the purchase. Prices are shown on the pricing page and include tax; the final currency and amount are shown at checkout. Your licence key is sent by email after payment. Refunds: see the refund policy.

7. Warranty

We build Tapelark carefully and fix the faults we learn about, but software is never free of errors. To the extent the law allows, Tapelark is provided "as is", without warranty that it is free of errors, that it records every source, or that it suits a particular purpose. Keep backups of recordings that matter to you.

If you are a consumer, you keep every right that the law of your country gives you and that cannot be excluded by contract; nothing in these terms limits them.

8. Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential damage, lost data, lost recordings or lost profits, and our total liability is limited to the amount you paid for your licence. We remain fully liable for damage we cause intentionally or by gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and wherever else the law does not allow liability to be limited.

9. Ending the licence

Your licence ends if you break these terms and do not put it right within 14 days of our notice, or if your purchase is refunded or charged back. You must then stop using Tapelark with that licence key. Sections 4, 7, 8 and 11 continue to apply.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms for new versions or when the law changes. The terms in force when you bought a version continue to apply to that version unless you agree otherwise. We publish every change on this page with its date.

11. Law and courts

These terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live, and you may go to the courts there.

Contact

support@tapelark.com — see also Contact.