ClamNotes Terms of Use

Version 1.9, effective [LAUNCH DATE]

Last updated: 20 October 2026

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") are the agreement between you and [COMPANY LEGAL NAME] ("we", "us") about the ClamNotes app for iPhone, iPad and Mac ("ClamNotes" or the "app"). They are also the end user licence agreement (EULA) for the app. Please read them together with the ClamNotes Privacy Policy, which explains how personal data is handled.

The short version

This summary helps you find your way around. It does not replace the full Terms below.

1. Who we are

ClamNotes is provided by:

Send any questions, complaints or claims about ClamNotes to the contact details above.

2. Agreeing to these Terms

You accept these Terms when you tap to agree to them in the app, or when you use ClamNotes after they have been shown to you. If you do not agree, please do not use ClamNotes.

Some parts of ClamNotes need extra permission from you, for example sending recordings and transcripts to AI providers. We ask for that permission separately in the app. Agreeing to these Terms does not by itself give that permission.

3. Who can use ClamNotes

You must be at least 18 years old to use ClamNotes. By accepting these Terms, you confirm that you are.

ClamNotes relies on AI services whose own terms allow their use only by adults. For this reason, we cannot offer ClamNotes to anyone under 18 at present. If you are under 18, please do not use ClamNotes.

4. Your licence to use the app

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use ClamNotes on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as allowed by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. Other accounts linked to the purchaser through Family Sharing or volume purchasing may also use the app, as those rules allow. If you download ClamNotes for Mac from our website, the same licence applies to that copy on any Mac that you own or control; the Usage Rules do not apply to it.

You may not, except where the law allows it in spite of this:

We and our licensors keep all rights in the app that are not expressly given to you. The app includes open-source components, which are licensed under their own licences. Transcription on the device uses FluidAudio (Apache License 2.0) and WhisperKit (MIT License). The visuals of notes use KaTeX (MIT License) to set formulas, and Pyodide (Mozilla Public License 2.0), with the Python interpreter and its standard library (Python Software Foundation License), to run programs. They are included unchanged, and their source code is available from their publishers. The speech models that ClamNotes includes or downloads are NVIDIA's Canary 1B v2, Moondream's Parakeet Ultra, which is based on NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 (both under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence), and OpenAI's Whisper large-v3 (MIT License; tokenizer files: Apache License 2.0), each converted by others to run on Apple devices. The notices and licences of all of these are in the app (Settings, About, Acknowledgements) and at https://clamnotes.app/acknowledgements.

5. What ClamNotes does

ClamNotes lets you record a class with the microphone of your iPhone or Mac, also when you use another app. On the iPhone it also records with the screen off, and shows the recording on the Lock Screen while it runs. It turns speech into text (transcription) and, when you stop, writes a structured note: a summary, sections, to-dos, open questions and, depending on your settings, corrections from a fact check and points for a school-leaving exam.

With the Plus or Pro plan, you can turn on Visuals. While you record, you can then take photos of the board, which go to the AI with the transcript. After the note, the AI also makes the visuals, which the app draws: graphs and formulas with sliders, figures you can move, charts, mind maps, timelines, step-by-step solutions and short Python programs that you can run and change on your device. Graphs, charts, figures and programs may show an example that the AI chose to illustrate what was taught, and the app marks them as examples.

On every plan, you can add files to a note while you record, or make a note from files alone: PDFs, Word and OpenDocument documents, PowerPoint and OpenDocument presentations, spreadsheets, text files, images, and audio and video files. The app reads them on your device and transcribes audio and video files on your device. It keeps documents and images with the note, and of an audio or video file only its transcript. What is read from the files goes to the AI with the transcript, if there is one, and any instructions you write.

With the Pro plan, you can make study sets in Study. From the written notes you choose (not their transcripts), any files you add and your instructions about the test, the AI writes one note to study from, with its visuals, flashcards, a quiz and a practice test. If you ask, the AI marks your open answers in a practice test and explains its marks; the app marks multiple-choice and true-or-false answers itself. The app also gives a short answer its points itself when it matches the model answer exactly; such an answer is not sent to the AI. Your progress, such as the cards you know and your test attempts, is stored on your device and in your iCloud.

How much of this happens on your device and how much is done by outside services depends on the quality level and settings you choose. The Privacy Policy explains, for each quality level, exactly what leaves your device.

ClamNotes comes with a speech recognition model inside it (about 0.6 GB), so on-device transcription works right after installing. Depending on your class language and your device, it may download more models (one to several gigabytes) from Apple or Hugging Face. This uses your internet connection and storage space.

Your notes, with their photos, files and visuals, and your study sets, are stored on your device and, if iCloud is turned on for ClamNotes, synced through your own iCloud account between your iPhone and your Mac, together with what each device has used of your plan's allowance. You can share or export notes as text, PDF or Word documents. You can also share notes and study sets with someone who has ClamNotes (Share ClamNote): they go as a link, with what was read from their files, or, when no link can be made, as a ClamNote file, which also holds the files themselves. A link holds the key that opens the notes: anyone who has it can open them for 30 days, so share it only with the people you choose. The notes are encrypted on your device, and our server keeps them only in that form. You can stop sharing a link at any time in the app (Settings, About, Privacy & data), which deletes its notes from our server at once. Anyone who opens a link can report it to us with "Report this note" on its page. We review reports, and we may remove a link reported for illegal content or abuse. Because ClamNotes has no accounts, we cannot tell the person who shared it, so such a link is removed without notice.

The Mac app proves to our server that it is a genuine copy of ClamNotes with Apple's App Attest, as the iPhone app does, where the Mac supports it. On a Mac that does not, it connects to our server through the ClamNotes app on your iPhone instead (the iPhone app leaves a link for it in your private iCloud), or with a licence key bought on our website (section 11). To write notes on such a Mac, you therefore need to open the ClamNotes app at least once on an iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account, or to activate a licence key. Your iPhone, iPad and Mac share one allowance, and the plan of a licence activated on the Mac, when they use the same iCloud account.

6. AI features and outside AI providers

ClamNotes uses outside AI services to repair misheard words, write notes, make study sets, mark practice answers, check facts and, if you use them, search the web and read official exam requirements. At the time these Terms were last updated, these services are:

What this means for you:

7. AI-generated content can be wrong

Notes, summaries, repaired transcripts, fact-check corrections, exam points, study sets, flashcards, quizzes, practice tests and the marks of practice answers in ClamNotes are generated automatically by AI. Every note carries a line saying that it was written by AI and can contain mistakes, also when you share or export it, and exported PDF and Word files are marked as AI-generated in their properties. Please keep in mind:

ClamNotes is a study aid. It is not a replacement for attending classes, your own notes, textbooks or advice from your teachers. It does not give professional advice of any kind, for example medical, legal or financial advice. Check anything important before you rely on it, especially before exams.

When using notes for schoolwork, follow your school's rules on AI. Do not hand in AI-generated content as your own work where your school does not allow this.

8. Recording other people

ClamNotes records everyone who can be heard, such as your teacher and classmates. Photos you take with ClamNotes, and files you add, can show people or contain their voices or other personal data too. Recording people and using what they said is governed by law in most countries, including privacy, data protection and copyright law, and in some places by criminal law. You are responsible for following these rules. In particular, you agree that:

If you break these rules, you may be legally responsible to the people you recorded. Where the law allows, we may suspend your use of ClamNotes as described in section 16.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to use ClamNotes:

10. Your content

Your content is what you record, add and create with ClamNotes: transcripts, photos of the board, files, notes and their visuals, study sets with your answers and progress, subjects, instructions and settings. As between you and us, you keep all the rights you have in your content. We do not claim ownership of it.

You may only add files that you have the right to use in this way: for example your own work, the handouts and materials your teachers gave you to study with, or other materials you are allowed to use. Textbooks, slides, handouts and other materials are usually protected by copyright. Do not share files, or notes and study sets that reproduce other people's copyrighted material, with Share ClamNote or a link, beyond what the law or the rights holder allows.

You allow us, and the providers named in the Privacy Policy acting for us, to process your content only as far as needed to provide the features you use. We do not use your content to train AI models, and we have set up our AI model providers so that they do not use it for training either.

We do not store your content on servers of our own, and we cannot see your notes. The only exception is notes you share as a link: our server keeps them encrypted, without being able to read them, for 30 days or until you stop sharing them (section 5). Requests to the AI pass through our relay without being kept. Your notes are stored on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your private iCloud storage, which only you can access. Keep your own copies of important notes by exporting them. We cannot restore notes that you or iCloud have deleted.

Where the law gives rights in AI-generated notes, those rights belong to you, as between you and us. AI may produce similar notes for other users, and nobody gets exclusive rights in content that is not original. Rights of other people, such as a teacher's copyright in a lecture or an author's in a file you add, are not affected.

11. Plans, usage limits and payment

ClamNotes may offer a free plan and paid subscription plans. The plan screen in the app shows the current plans before you buy, including:

The details shown on the plan screen when you buy are part of these Terms for your subscription.

Usage limits:

Buying through Apple:

Buying on our website:

Price changes:

Changes to plans and features:

12. Right of withdrawal (EU, EEA and UK)

If you are a consumer living in the EU, the EEA or the UK, you generally have the right to withdraw from a contract made online within 14 days, without giving a reason.

Purchases in the ClamNotes app are made through Apple. Apple handles withdrawals and refunds for these purchases under the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. To withdraw, you can use the withdrawal option in your Apple Account's purchase history or reportaproblem.apple.com, or send Apple a clear statement, as described in Apple's terms. Apple reimburses you no later than 14 days after it receives your withdrawal.

For a plan bought on our website, you can withdraw within 14 days of the purchase by sending Lemon Squeezy (through the link in your receipt) or us (section 22) a clear statement. You are reimbursed no later than 14 days after your withdrawal is received, with the same means of payment.

When you buy a subscription, you ask us to start providing it immediately, so that you can use the paid features right away. Before your purchase, the app or our website asks you to confirm this and to acknowledge the following:

If Apple's or Lemon Squeezy's terms or the law of your country give you more generous rights, those rights apply.

13. Availability, updates and support

We want ClamNotes to work well, but we cannot promise that it will always be available or free of errors. In particular:

We may update ClamNotes to fix problems, keep it secure, follow the law, or improve or change features, as described in section 11. Some updates may be needed to keep using the app. ClamNotes for Mac from our website is updated by downloading its new version from the website. If you are a consumer in the EU, the EEA or the UK, we provide the updates the law requires to keep the app in conformity with these Terms, and we tell you about them.

We are solely responsible for maintenance and support of ClamNotes. You can contact us at [CONTACT EMAIL]. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.

14. Your legal rights and our warranty

If you are a consumer, you have legal rights when the app or a paid service does not conform to what was agreed or to what you can reasonably expect. In the EU and the EEA, these rights come from the rules on digital content and digital services (in Hungary, Government Decree 373/2021). You can, for example, ask us to bring the app into conformity, and in some cases ask for a price reduction or end the contract. Nothing in these Terms limits these rights.

Beyond these legal rights, and as far as the law allows, ClamNotes is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise any particular result from using the app, for example that a transcript or note will be complete or correct, or that it will help you pass an exam.

If the app fails to conform to any warranty that applies, you may tell Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app, if any, to you. As far as the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses caused by a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility, not Apple's, to the extent set out in these Terms and the law.

15. Our liability

We are fully liable, without any limit:

In other cases, where we cause damage through slight negligence, we are liable only if we breach an obligation that is essential for providing ClamNotes and on which you can reasonably rely. In that case our liability is limited to damage that was typical and foreseeable when you agreed to these Terms.

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for:

If you are a consumer, this section does not limit any liability that cannot be limited under the law of the country where you live. If you are a consumer in the UK, we are also responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our failure to use reasonable care and skill.

16. Suspension and ending the agreement

You can stop using ClamNotes at any time by deleting the app. Deleting the app does not cancel a paid subscription. Cancel it in your Apple Account settings, or for a plan bought on our website, through Lemon Squeezy (section 11).

We may suspend or limit your use of ClamNotes, or end this agreement, if you seriously or repeatedly break these Terms, if the law requires it, or to prevent harm to others. Where reasonable, we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. Because ClamNotes has no user accounts, a suspension may apply to the AI features on your device or Apple Account.

We may also stop offering ClamNotes or one of its features for good reason, for example if a provider stops its service. We will give you at least 30 days' notice in the app where possible. If you have paid for a period that we then cannot provide, you will get a proportionate refund of the unused part, through Apple, through Lemon Squeezy or directly from us.

When the agreement ends, your notes stay on your device and in your iCloud storage until you delete them. Sections 8, 10, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 21 continue to apply after the agreement ends, as far as they are relevant.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms, for example when we add features, when providers or the law change, or to make them clearer. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect, and ask you to accept the new Terms where needed. If you do not agree, you can stop using ClamNotes and cancel your subscription before the change takes effect. For a period you have already paid for, changes apply only if they are needed for legal reasons or do not disadvantage you.

Each version has a version number and an effective date at the top.

18. Apple

This section applies to ClamNotes obtained from the App Store or through TestFlight. These Terms are between you and us only, not with Apple Inc. or its subsidiaries ("Apple"). We, not Apple, are solely responsible for ClamNotes and its content. These Terms do not set usage rules that conflict with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions as of the date you accept them.

We, not Apple, are responsible for dealing with any claims by you or any third party relating to ClamNotes or your possession or use of it, including:

If a third party claims that ClamNotes or your possession and use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging that claim, as required by these Terms.

Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms. When you accept these Terms, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.

19. Legal compliance

You confirm that you are not located in a country or region that is subject to a United States Government embargo, or that has been designated by the United States Government as a "terrorist supporting" country or region, and that you are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You also agree to follow EU and other sanctions and export laws that apply to you.

20. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Hungary. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you usually live. Nothing in these Terms takes those rights away.

If you are a consumer, you can bring a claim in the courts of the country where you live or in the Hungarian courts. We can bring a claim against you only in the courts of the country where you live. If you live in the UK, you can bring a claim in the courts of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, depending on where you live.

Complaints and out-of-court settlement:

21. Other terms

22. Contact