Terms of Use

Last updated: 12 November 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and [Legal name] ("we", "us") for using Svara, the app for Mac, and the website svara.bot. By installing or using Svara you accept them. If you don't, please don't use Svara.

1. Who can use Svara

You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of digital consent where you live if that is higher. If you use Svara for an organisation, you confirm you may accept these terms for it.

2. Your licence

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Svara on Macs you own or control. Svara is currently free of charge. If we ever offer paid features, their price and terms will be shown before you pay, and nothing you use today will start costing money without your agreement.

You may not:

• sell, rent or redistribute Svara, or pass it off as your own;
• remove or change our notices, or get around its security features, such as the update signature or the approval of actions;
• use Svara to break the law or anyone's rights.

Svara includes open-source software, which comes under its own licence (see Open-source software below).

3. Your AI provider

Svara doesn't provide AI models. You connect your own provider (OpenAI, your ChatGPT plan, OpenRouter, Apple Intelligence or a local model), and your use of that provider is under your agreement with them, including their usage policies, prices and limits. Any cost from your provider is yours. We aren't responsible for a provider's service, availability or how it handles data.

4. Answers can be wrong

Svara's answers come from AI models. They can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, and they can sound sure when they aren't. Check anything important before you rely on it, and don't use Svara as a substitute for professional medical, legal, financial or safety advice.

Svara tells you when you are talking to an AI. When you share text or pictures Svara made, it's up to you to say so where honesty or the law requires it.

5. What Svara does on your Mac

Svara can type answers into other apps, run actions such as moving files, adding calendar events or drafting email, and run commands you allow. Actions that change things ask for your approval first. You are responsible for what you approve, and for settings that let Svara act without asking, such as "Run writes and commands without asking". Keep backups of anything you can't afford to lose.

6. Meeting notes and other people

Svara can transcribe calls. Recording or transcribing a conversation can require the other people's knowledge or consent, depending on where you and they are. You are responsible for telling them and for following those rules. Svara never starts taking notes by itself.

7. Acceptable use

Don't use Svara to:

• harass, deceive, impersonate or spy on anyone, or collect people's data without a lawful reason;
• create or spread unlawful content, malware or spam;
• break your AI provider's usage policies;
• infringe copyright or other rights.

8. Your content

Everything you put into Svara and get out of it is yours, as far as your provider's terms allow. We don't receive it and claim no rights to it. See the Privacy Policy for what goes where.

9. Updates and changes

Svara updates itself when you allow it, and updates are signed so only genuine ones install. We may add, change or remove features. We'll keep these terms current and show the date of the last change at the top; if a change matters to you, we'll say so in the release notes or in the app. Using Svara after a change means you accept the new terms.

10. Warranty

Svara is provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we make no promises that it will be free of errors or always available, or fit for a particular purpose. If you are a consumer, you keep all the rights the law gives you, and nothing here limits them.

11. Liability

As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data, lost profits, or for what an AI provider, tool server or other service does. Our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us for Svara in the twelve months before the claim, or €50 if that is more.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or any other liability that can't be limited by law.

12. Ending

You can stop using Svara at any time by quitting it and moving it to the Trash; the User Guide explains how to remove its data too. We may end your licence if you seriously break these terms. Sections 4, 8, 10, 11 and 13 continue after that.

13. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [Sweden]. Disputes go to the courts of [Stockholm], but if you are a consumer in the EU you can also use the courts and the mandatory consumer protection of the country where you live.

14. Contact

[Legal name], [Address]. Email: [hello@svara.bot].

Open-source software

Svara uses Sparkle for updates, under the MIT licence. The full licence text comes with the app in Settings → Privacy & Legal → Open-Source Software. The svara.bot website uses the typeface Schibsted Grotesk under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.