Terms of use
These terms cover your use of the Hushy app for macOS and this website. They are written to be read. If anything is unclear, write to us.
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The agreement
These terms are between you and Hushy (“we”, “us”), the maker of the Hushy app. By installing or using Hushy you agree to them. If you use Hushy for an organization, you confirm you may accept these terms for it.
Source code and licence
Hushy’s source code is open source under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. You may use, study, change and share it under that licence; the full text is in the LICENSE file of the source repository. The Hushy name and logo are trademarks and aren’t covered by the licence, so a changed version must use a different name. These terms cover the signed app we distribute and our hosted services (sign-in, model downloads and updates).
Your content
Your recordings, transcripts, notes and everything else you create with Hushy are yours. They stay on your Mac, and we do not receive them or claim any rights in them. You are responsible for backing them up. See the privacy policy for how data is handled.
Recording other people
Laws on recording conversations differ by place, and some require everyone’s consent. When you record a meeting or call, you are responsible for telling participants and getting any consent the law requires.
Actions and the Assistant
- Voice actions run when you hold the action chord or press the action key twice, then speak. Safe actions on your own Mac, such as reminders, your own calendar events, notes, opening links and handing a question to an AI service, happen at once and can be undone for a few seconds; anything that reaches other people, runs a Shortcut is shown on a card and only carried out after you confirm. Check what Hushy did or proposes; you are responsible for the actions you trigger and confirm.
- Transcription, cleanup, summaries and suggestions are produced automatically and can be wrong. Review anything important before you rely on it or send it.
- The Assistant uses your own Claude Code and your own Anthropic account. Your use of it is also governed by your agreement with Anthropic, and any usage costs are between you and Anthropic.
- Calendar connections to Google or Microsoft are subject to those companies’ terms as well.
Price and founding members
- Hushy is free. Everything in the app, including dictation, cleanup, tones, voice actions and notes, is free to use, with no word, recording or history limits. What runs on your Mac stays free; if we ever charge, it’s for things we host.
- Founding members: every Hushy account made before 1 December 2026, wherever you are, is a founding member, and so is anyone who redeemed an invite code before that date. Nothing a founding member can use in Hushy on that date will ever be moved behind a paywall. If we ever offer a paid plan, founding members get six months of it free, starting the day it opens.
- Hushy is not sold today and we take no payments. Before anything is ever charged, this page will say what it costs, who processes payments and how refunds work.
Beta versions
Hushy is in public beta. Beta versions may have bugs, change or lose features, and are provided to get your feedback. Please keep backups of anything important.
Acceptable use
Don’t use Hushy to break the law, to record people unlawfully, or to harm others. Don’t abuse or interfere with our hosted services (sign-in, model downloads and updates).
Updates
Hushy checks for updates and installs them when you allow it. We may add, change or remove features over time. If we remove a feature from a paid plan in a way that matters to you, you can cancel and ask for a prorated refund of the unused period.
Warranty disclaimer
Hushy is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, and we do not promise the app will be error-free or that transcripts will be accurate. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that cannot be excluded.
Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of data kept on your Mac, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for Hushy in the 12 months before the claim, or US$50 if you paid nothing.
Ending these terms
You can stop using Hushy and uninstall it at any time. We may suspend access to our hosted services if they are used in serious breach of these terms. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as your content, disclaimers and liability) survive the end of these terms.
Changes
We may update these terms. If a change is material we will say so in the app or the changelog at least 14 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use Hushy after that means you accept the new terms.