Terms.

mmumble is a voice keyboard provided by Covalet LTD (“Covalet”, “we”, “us”), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 15869880. These terms are the agreement between you and Covalet when you install or use mmumble. If you don't accept them, don't use the app.

For how we handle the small amount of data we process, see our Privacy Policy — it forms part of this agreement.

Who can use mmumble

You must be at least 13 years old to use mmumble. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you confirm a parent or guardian has agreed to these terms on your behalf. mmumble is provided to you personally; you may not resell, sublicense, or make it available to others as a service.

The service

mmumble takes audio you dictate, transcribes it via third-party speech recognition, optionally cleans the transcript via a third-party language model, and inserts the result at your text cursor. The current providers are listed in the Privacy Policy and may change without notice. The service is delivered as software-as-a-service over the internet; an active connection is required.

We may add, change, suspend, or remove features at any time. We may set or vary usage limits, throttle abusive traffic, or refuse requests we judge to be harmful, fraudulent, or in breach of these terms.

Free tier and paid plans

mmumble offers a free tier with a weekly word allowance and one or more paid subscription plans (collectively, “mmumble unlimited”) that remove that allowance. Current plan prices and billing periods are shown in the in-app paywall and on the App Store and apply at the price displayed at the time you purchase.

Paid subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple Inc. through the App Store. Apple's payment terms apply to the purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel a subscription from Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on your device. Uninstalling mmumble does not cancel an active subscription.

Free trials and introductory offers

From time to time we offer an introductory free trial on a paid plan. Eligibility, length, and which plans the offer applies to are determined by Apple's subscription-group rules and by the configuration we publish in App Store Connect; only one introductory offer is available per Apple ID per subscription group. If you don't cancel before the trial ends, the subscription converts to a paid term at the then-current price and continues to auto-renew on the cadence shown at sign-up.

Refunds and your statutory rights

All payments are made to Apple, and refunds are handled by Apple under its standard policies. If you believe you are entitled to a refund, request it through reportaproblem.apple.com.

If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom or European Economic Area: by purchasing a subscription you agree that we begin providing the digital service immediately, and you acknowledge that this means you lose any statutory right of withdrawal under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (UK) or the equivalent EU consumer legislation. Nothing in these terms removes statutory rights you have which cannot be excluded by contract.

Acceptable use

When you use mmumble, you agree not to:

• use the service to generate, transcribe, or distribute content that is unlawful, defamatory, infringing, harmful to children, or designed to harass, threaten, or impersonate any person;
• attempt to bypass usage limits, free-trial eligibility checks, rate limiting, App Attest, DeviceCheck, or any other technical control we use to allocate the service fairly;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or extract the source of the app or our backend, except to the limited extent applicable law (e.g. interoperability rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) prohibits such a restriction;
• scrape, crawl, or systematically harvest output from the service, or use the service to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any other machine-learning model;
• use automated tools or non-Apple devices to interact with the service, or share, lend, or pool an Apple ID with others to extend a free trial or subscription beyond what one Apple ID allows;
• interfere with the operation of the service, probe for vulnerabilities outside a coordinated disclosure, or do anything that places undue load on our infrastructure.

We may suspend or terminate your access if we reasonably believe you have breached this section. Where the breach is material or repeated, we may do so immediately and without refund of any unused portion of a paid term.

Your content

You own the audio you dictate and the cleaned text mmumble produces from it. We don't retain either past the duration of a single request (see the Privacy Policy for the technical details). We claim no ownership over your dictated content and we do not use it to train or improve any model.

To deliver the service, you grant us — and our processors named in the Privacy Policy — a temporary, worldwide, royalty-free licence to receive, transmit, transcribe, clean, and return your dictated content for the purpose of returning the cleaned text to your device. The licence ends when the request completes.

Our intellectual property

mmumble, the mmumble brand, the app, our backend services, and everything we publish on this site are owned by Covalet LTD or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on Apple devices you own or control, solely for your own use and subject to these terms and to Apple's standard EULA where it applies.

Third-party services

mmumble depends on third-party services to function — Apple (App Store and platform APIs), Cloudflare (hosting), and the providers listed in the Privacy Policy. Their availability, pricing, and terms are outside our control. We are not responsible for downtime, errors, or changes attributable to those services, except to the limited extent we are required by law to be.

No warranty

mmumble is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including any warranty that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, fit for any particular purpose, or that transcribed and cleaned text will match what you intended to say. Speech recognition and language models make mistakes; you are responsible for reviewing the output before relying on it for anything that matters.

If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction (such as the United Kingdom under the Consumer Rights Act 2015) that grants you statutory protections we cannot lawfully exclude — for example, a right to a service performed with reasonable care and skill — those protections still apply.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Covalet's total aggregate liability to you arising out of or in connection with mmumble — whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise — is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid for the service in the twelve months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim and (b) £100.

We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, nor for loss of profits, revenue, data, business opportunity, goodwill, or any losses that arise because mmumble misheard a word, produced an unintended transcription, or was unavailable when you needed it.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that UK consumer protection law prevents us from excluding.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify Covalet, its officers, employees, and agents against any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of (a) your breach of these terms, (b) your misuse of mmumble, or (c) content you dictate or distribute using the service that infringes a third party's rights or breaks any law. This obligation does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own negligence or wilful misconduct.

Term and termination

These terms apply for as long as you have mmumble installed or continue to use the service. You may stop using mmumble at any time by uninstalling the app and, if you have a paid plan, cancelling the subscription with Apple. We may terminate or suspend your access — including the keyboard extension and any paid features — at any time if you breach these terms, if your continued use would expose us to legal or operational risk, or if we discontinue the service.

Sections that by their nature survive termination — including your-content, our-IP, no-warranty, limitation-of-liability, indemnity, governing-law, and contact — survive any termination of these terms.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we'll update the effective date at the top of this page and surface a notice in the app the next time you open it. For non-material changes (clarifications, typos, updated links) we may update silently. Your continued use of mmumble after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms; if you don't accept them, stop using mmumble.

Governing law and disputes

These terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Subject to your statutory rights as a consumer, the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except that you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence if you are a UK or EEA consumer and local law gives you that right.

Before starting any formal proceedings, please email [email protected] and give us a reasonable chance to resolve the issue informally — we almost always can.

Apple's standard terms (where applicable)

Where Apple's standard end-user licence agreement (apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula) applies to your installation of mmumble, you and we acknowledge that the agreement is concluded between you and Covalet, not Apple, and that Apple is not responsible for mmumble or its content. To the extent the standard EULA imposes additional terms in Apple's favour (third-party-beneficiary rights, intellectual-property warranties, and product-liability allocation), those terms apply in addition to these and prevail to the extent of any direct conflict.

Miscellaneous

If any provision of these terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. You may not assign these terms without our written consent; we may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of our assets. These terms (together with the Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and Covalet regarding mmumble and supersede any prior understanding.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or anything else legal-shaped: [email protected].