Terms of Service

Last updated: July 20, 2026

These Terms govern your use of Muni. By downloading or using Muni, you agree to them. Please read the Privacy Policy too; it is part of these Terms.

1. Who we are

Muni (“Muni,” “we,” “us”) is a macOS dictation application. You can reach us at [email protected].

2. What Muni is

Muni is a downloadable application for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or newer) running macOS Sonoma (14) or later. You hold a hotkey, speak, and Muni turns your speech into clean text wherever your cursor is.

Muni works on a bring-your-own-keys (BYOK) basis. It connects to third-party API services that you sign up for and control with your own API keys. Your audio is sent directly from your Mac to those services under your own accounts. We never receive, see, or store your audio or transcripts.

3. Your license

Muni is free and open source. The source code is published at github.com/mrkvn/muni under the MIT License, and that license — not this section — is what grants your rights to the code. You may use, copy, modify, and redistribute Muni on the MIT License’s terms, including keeping its copyright and permission notice intact.

Two things the MIT License does not cover, and which these Terms do:

• The Muni name, logo, and other brand marks are not licensed to you. Forks and derivatives must not present themselves as Muni or imply we endorse them.
• You may not use Muni to break the law or to violate the terms of the third-party services it connects to.

Voluntary donations support ongoing development. A donation is a gift, not payment for the software: it buys no license, entitlement, warranty, priority, or claim on future work, and once given it is final.

4. Your responsibilities

• You are responsible for creating and securing your own accounts and API keys for the third-party services Muni uses, and for all usage costs they charge.
• You are responsible for the content you dictate and for complying with any laws that apply to it.
• You must meet the system requirements above for Muni to work.

5. Disclaimers

Muni is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not warrant that Muni will be uninterrupted, error-free, or perfectly accurate in transcription, or that the third-party services it relies on will always be available. Muni depends on third-party API services, your network, and Apple’s platform, which are outside our control.

6. Limitation of liability

Muni is supplied to you free of charge. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to Muni is limited to the amount you have paid us for it — which, for a free app, is nothing. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for third-party charges (including third-party API usage). Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

7. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The current version, with its effective date, is always posted on this page. Continued use of Muni after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

8. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes are subject to the courts of the Philippines, unless mandatory consumer-protection law gives you other rights.

9. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email [email protected] or see our Contact page.