Thanks for using Obry. These Terms — together with our Privacy Notice — explain the rules for using the app, the obry.app website, the update feed, and any support we provide (together, the "Service"). They're the agreement between you and us ("Obry", "we", "us"). If you have a question, email contact@obry.app.

By installing, launching, or continuing to use Obry, you're agreeing to these Terms. If they don't work for you, don't install the app — and if you already have, please uninstall it.

1. What Obry does.

   Obry runs from the macOS menu bar and does not appear in the Dock. When you press its capture shortcut, it opens a full-screen selection overlay that lets you draw a rectangle and save it as a card. Cards float above other windows and can be moved, resized with the trackpad or by dragging their edges, docked to any screen edge, thrown across the screen with a two-finger swipe, re-opened from a history window, dragged into other applications, copied to the clipboard, or exported to Apple Notes. Text that appears inside a capture can be recognised on the device, edited, formatted, and dragged out as plain text. All capture, stitching, recognition, editing, and storage operations are performed locally on your Mac, using frameworks provided by Apple. The default keyboard shortcuts are:
   • Region capture — Option+Tab
   • Scroll capture — Option+S
   • History window — Option+H

   The capture and scroll shortcuts may be changed from Obry's preferences. Obry may add, change, or remove features over time, subject to the Updates section below.

2. System requirements.

   Obry requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later and runs only on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or newer). Intel Macs are not supported. Certain features, including screen capture itself, require that you grant the application the permissions listed in the Privacy Notice through System Settings → Privacy & Security.

3. Eligibility.

   You may use Obry only if you are at least 13 years old, or 16 if you reside in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, and you are able to form a binding contract under the laws applicable to you. If you install Obry on a Mac owned by an employer or other organisation, you represent that you have authority to accept these Terms on that organisation's behalf and that its policies permit you to run screen-capture software on that device. Obry has no accounts. A paid license is tied to a license key issued at purchase.

4. Free trial.

   Obry is free for 14 days from first launch. The trial is the whole app — every feature unlocked, nothing held back — and it asks for no payment details, no account, and no card on file. The countdown is stored locally on your Mac.

   When the 14 days are up, Obry keeps working. It will remind you to buy a license, and we hope you do, but it does not delete your cards, lock your captures, or hold your work hostage. Buying a license turns the reminders off.

   The trial is 14 days, though, not indefinite: once it ends, continuing to use Obry requires a license. The app not locking you out is a courtesy, not permission.

5. Your license.

   A license is one per person, not one per machine. Buy once and you can run Obry on every Mac you personally own and use — desktop and laptop, home and work. We don't count devices, and you don't need to deactivate anything when you replace a Mac.

   The license belongs to you personally. Anyone else who uses Obry needs their own: a team of five needs five licenses, not one shared between five, and the same applies in a household where more than one person uses the app on their own Mac.

   Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, perpetual license to install and run Obry for your own use. All rights not granted here are reserved.

6. Purchase.

   Obry costs US$12, once — €12 in the euro area, £12 in the UK — with tax included in that price or added on top at checkout, depending on where you live. It is not a subscription and there are no recurring charges.

   Paddle.com Market Limited ("Paddle") is the Merchant of Record: Paddle is the seller on the transaction, takes your payment, calculates and remits VAT and sales tax, and issues your receipt. Your purchase is therefore also governed by Paddle's Buyer Terms. Prices appear at checkout in the currency Paddle determines for your location, and the price in effect when you order is the price that applies.

   Refunds. The trial is there so you can decide before you pay: the full app, free, for 14 days, with no card required. If you buy and change your mind anyway, email contact@obry.app within 14 days of your purchase and we will refund it in full. Tell us the email address you bought with; you do not have to give a reason.

   We reply within two working days and ask Paddle to issue the refund. Paddle, as the seller on the transaction, returns the money to the payment method you used at checkout — we cannot send it anywhere else. Banks and card issuers usually take a further five to ten working days to show it.

   After those 14 days we look at requests case by case, and we would rather hear from you than not: if something has genuinely gone wrong — a duplicate charge, a payment you did not make, the app not working on your Mac — email us before starting a chargeback and we will sort it out with Paddle. When a refund is issued, the license ends: stop using Obry and delete the key.

   Paddle also handles refunds under its Buyer Terms, so you can ask Paddle directly instead of us. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA, or UK, you consent at checkout to immediate delivery of digital content and acknowledge that this ends your statutory right of withdrawal so far as the law allows; nothing here removes rights that can't be waived where you live, and the 14 days above are ours to honour regardless.

7. License keys.

   Your key arrives by email after purchase. It is a signed token holding the email address you bought with and the date of purchase; the app verifies it locally, so there is no activation server to call and no device fingerprint taken.

   Keys are personal and non-transferable. Don't publish one, post it to a forum or paste-site, sell it, or pass it around. If a key is distributed publicly we may revoke it, and a revoked key will stop working in later versions of the app. Forging or bypassing a key is a breach of these Terms.

8. Updates.

   Obry updates itself through Sparkle, an open-source updater, by fetching a signed feed from a public URL. Updates are verified against our published public key before they install. Checking is automatic by default, installing is not, and you can change both in preferences.

   Minor updates are included in your license — fixes, refinements, and new features within the version you bought. What we can't honestly promise is that Obry will run on every future version of macOS forever. Apple reworks the frameworks Obry is built on, and a large enough change may mean a paid major version is what it takes to keep the app good. If that happens we'll say so plainly, and your existing license keeps working on the version you bought it for.

   We may end support for older builds or older macOS releases, and may change, suspend, or discontinue features. Discontinuance on its own doesn't entitle you to a refund.

9. Acceptable use.

   You agree not to use the Service, and not to help anyone else use it, to do any of the following:
   • capture, stitch, recognise, store, edit, export, copy to the clipboard, or share the screen contents of any person or device without the rights or consents required by applicable law, including laws that govern recording in the workplace, recording of video calls, recording of shared screens, and the handling of personal data that appears on a screen;
   • capture or extract text from content that is protected by digital rights management, encryption, confidentiality, attorney-client privilege, medical privacy, trade-secret, or other legal protection that you are not authorised to circumvent;
   • use Obry to harass, stalk, surveil, defame, or harm any individual, to impersonate another person, or to collect evidence in a manner that violates applicable law;
   • copy, redistribute, resell, rent, lease, loan, sublicense, host as a service, or otherwise make the application available to third parties;
   • reset, tamper with, or otherwise circumvent the trial period in order to keep using Obry for free beyond the 14 days;
   • reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code of the application, or bypass any technical measure that limits its functionality, except to the extent these restrictions are prohibited by mandatory law (in which case you agree to give Obry reasonable notice before doing so);
   • remove, obscure, or modify any proprietary notice, trademark, tamper-detection mechanism, or Sparkle signature;
   • interfere with or probe the security of the application, the update feed, or the underlying infrastructure, or introduce any virus or malicious code; if you believe you have found a security vulnerability, you agree to report it privately to contact@obry.app and to give Obry a reasonable opportunity to remediate it before any public disclosure;
   • use the Service in violation of any applicable export, sanctions, or import law, or from any jurisdiction where such use is prohibited.

   You are solely responsible for following every law that applies to the act of screen capture itself — wiretap and recording-consent rules, workplace policies, medical and educational privacy laws, data-protection laws like GDPR and CCPA, and anything similar in your country. Obry doesn't see what you capture, so it cannot judge whether a given capture is legal — you must make that call before you start it.

10. Your representations and warranties.

    Every time you use Obry, you confirm that:
    • you have the right to capture, store, edit, and share whatever you put through the app, and you won't use Obry to violate anyone's privacy, publicity, or intellectual-property rights;
    • you'll follow every law that applies to what you capture — including recording-consent laws, medical-privacy laws, and data-protection laws — and any agreements you have with your employer, clients, or any platform whose content appears on your screen;
    • you won't use Obry for anything unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, or intended to harm someone;
    • the checkout details you give are accurate, and you're allowed to use the payment method you provide;
    • you're not on a sanctions list or acting for someone who is (see the Export and Sanctions section); and
    • you've read and accepted the terms of any other app or service you send Obry content to — how they handle it is between you and them, not Obry.

11. Your content.

    Everything you capture, scroll-stitch, recognise, edit, format, rename, or store through Obry — including PNG screenshots, stitched scroll captures, recognised text, text that you edit or format, inline-calculator results, thumbnails, and card metadata — is written to folders on your Mac (by default within ~/Pictures/Obry/, with subfolders Screenshots, .metadata, and .thumbnails) and to standard macOS preference stores. None of that content is uploaded to or received by Obry. Ownership of that content ("Your Content") remains with you or the applicable rightsholder.

    Because Your Content never leaves your device through the Service, Obry cannot recover, restore, moderate, review, or export it on your behalf; backing up anything you wish to preserve is your responsibility. When you drag a card into another application, copy its image or text to the clipboard, export it to Apple Notes, save it to the Desktop, Documents, or Downloads folders, or otherwise transmit it outside Obry, you — and not Obry — are responsible for the receiving application's handling of that content.

12. Apple Notes export.

    Obry offers an optional action that exports a selected card to Apple Notes using Apple Events (AppleScript). The first time you trigger this action, macOS will ask you to permit Obry to control the Notes application; this permission is granted and revoked entirely through System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation. The automation runs locally on your Mac and does not transmit card content to Obry or to any third party. You are responsible for any notes you create and for compliance with the terms applicable to any account into which those notes are synced.

13. Third-party software.

    Obry depends on Apple's macOS frameworks (including ScreenCaptureKit, Vision, AppKit, SwiftUI, Core Animation, and AppleScript) and on two open-source components that are embedded in the application: the Sparkle update framework and the Lottie animation library. These components are used under their respective open-source licenses; the full license texts and copyright notices are bundled with the application and can be viewed from the Obry menu bar icon under Settings → About → Acknowledgements, and are also available on request. Obry is not responsible for the content, policies, or availability of any third-party website or service that you choose to open, drag into, or export to through the Service.

14. Intellectual property.

    Obry, including its source and object code, the design of its capture overlay, floating cards, arc-scroll history, gestures, haptic and animation language, icons, documentation, and the "Obry" name and mark, is owned by Obry or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual-property laws. Nothing in these Terms grants you any right, title, or interest in the Service beyond the limited license granted above. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. If you believe that material made available through the Service infringes your intellectual-property rights, please send a written notice to contact@obry.app.

15. Feedback.

    If you send Obry ideas, suggestions, feature requests, bug reports, mock-ups, or other feedback about the Service, you grant Obry a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, and exploit that feedback for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without attribution or obligation to you. You represent that you have the right to grant that license.

16. Dispute resolution.

    This section explains how disputes between you and Obry are handled. For U.S. users it includes an arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver, which affect your legal rights.

    Let's try to sort it out first

    Most things can be fixed over email. Before filing anything formal, please write to us at contact@obry.app describing the issue and what you'd like us to do about it, and give us sixty (60) days to respond. Any statute of limitations is paused while we're talking.

    Arbitration for U.S. users

    If you're in the United States and we can't resolve things informally, any dispute will go to binding individual arbitration — not court — under the Federal Arbitration Act. The American Arbitration Association ("AAA") runs it under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, in English, before a single arbitrator. It can happen in the county where you live, or by phone or video. The arbitrator decides whether arbitration applies, except for the class-action waiver below — that's for a court to decide. A court can enter judgment on the arbitrator's award.

    Exceptions

    Either of us can go to court instead of arbitration for (a) claims about infringing or misusing intellectual-property rights, and (b) anything small enough for small-claims court, as long as it stays an individual claim.

    No class actions

    You and Obry each agree to bring disputes individually — not as a class, collective, or representative action — and the arbitrator can't combine multiple people's claims. If a court decides this can't apply to a particular claim, that one claim goes to court and the rest stay in arbitration.

    30-day opt-out

    You can opt out of arbitration by emailing contact@obry.app within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms. Include your name, postal address, and a note that you're opting out. Nothing else changes — you can still use Obry as normal.

    Users outside the United States

    If you're not in the U.S., disputes go to the courts where Obry is based — unless your local consumer-protection laws say otherwise, in which case those laws apply.

17. Governing law.

    Obry is operated by Yevhen Yurchuk, a sole proprietor based in Ukraine. These Terms, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of Ukraine, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, except that, where mandatory consumer-protection laws of the country in which you reside apply, those laws govern to the extent required. If Obry's principal place of business changes (for example, to a member state of the European Union), the laws of that jurisdiction will govern from the effective date of the change as reflected in an updated version of these Terms. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

18. Changes to these Terms.

    Obry may revise these Terms from time to time. When it does, the "Last updated" date at the top will be revised and, where the changes are material (for example, changes to the arbitration agreement, to the license grant, or to the purchase terms), Obry will provide additional notice on the website or within the application. Material changes take effect no earlier than thirty (30) days after the updated Terms are posted. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms; if you do not accept them, you must stop using the Service.

19. Suspension and termination.

    You may stop using the Service at any time by uninstalling Obry and discarding all copies in your possession. Obry may suspend or terminate your license and your access to the Service, with or without notice, if it reasonably believes that you have materially breached these Terms (including by sharing, reselling, or attempting to forge a license key, or by initiating an abusive chargeback), that your use of the Service may expose Obry or a third party to legal liability, or that suspension is required by law. All sections that by their nature should survive termination do survive it — including the intellectual-property, feedback, dispute-resolution, disclaimer, liability, indemnification, time-limit, and miscellaneous provisions.

20. Disclaimer of warranties.

    To the maximum extent permitted by law, Obry is provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. Obry disclaims all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and accuracy of data.

    Obry doesn't promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that recognised text, scroll stitches, calculator results, or saved captures will be accurate or preserved without loss. Using Obry is at your own risk — including the risk that third-party anti-virus or security software may flag or block it, and the risk of relying on Obry's output for professional, medical, legal, financial, or safety-critical decisions. Obry is general-purpose software and shouldn't be treated as a source of truth for those purposes. Always verify output before acting on it.

21. Limitation of liability.

    To the maximum extent permitted by law, Obry will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, data, captured content, business opportunity, or the cost of substitute products — regardless of the legal theory and even if Obry was warned that such damages were possible.

    Obry's total liability related to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the greater of (a) what you paid Obry (through Paddle) for the applicable license in the twelve (12) months before the event that caused the claim, or (b) fifty U.S. dollars (US$50). Your only remedy, at Obry's choice, is a refund up to that cap or revocation of your license.

    Some jurisdictions don't allow some of these exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing here excludes liability that can't be excluded by law — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

22. Indemnification.

    If a third party brings a claim against Obry because of (a) how you used or misused the Service, (b) something you captured, edited, exported, or shared, (c) your breach of these Terms, or (d) your violation of a law or of someone else's rights, you will defend Obry and cover any resulting claims, damages, losses, and reasonable legal fees. Obry will let you know about the claim promptly and may choose to handle its own defence at your expense.

23. Events beyond our control.

    Obry is not responsible for any delay, failure, or interruption of the Service caused by events outside its reasonable control — for example, changes or outages in Apple's operating system or frameworks, Paddle, GitHub, the internet itself, a cyber-attack, a natural disaster, or a new law that restricts what the app can do.

24. Time limit for claims.

    Any legal claim you bring against Obry about these Terms or the Service must be started within one (1) year of the event that caused it, or it is permanently barred — unless the law where you live doesn't allow this, in which case the shortest period the law allows will apply instead.

25. Export, sanctions, and government use.

    You represent and warrant that (a) you are not located in, and will not use the Service from, any country that is subject to a comprehensive U.S. or EU embargo, and (b) you are not on any list of sanctioned, prohibited, or restricted parties maintained by the U.S., EU, UK, or a similar authority. You agree to comply with all applicable export-control and sanctions laws. If you are a U.S. federal agency or other government entity, your use of the Service is subject to the rules applicable to commercial computer software and commercial computer-software documentation under 48 C.F.R. § 12.212 or 48 C.F.R. § 227.7202, as applicable.

26. General.

    These Terms, together with the Privacy Notice and any additional terms disclosed at the point of purchase, constitute the entire agreement between you and Obry regarding the Service and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understanding on the same subject. You are not relying on any statement, screenshot, video, post, or conversation about Obry that is not written in these Terms. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in force. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent; any attempted assignment without consent is void. Obry may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation, sale of assets, or by operation of law. Section headings are for convenience only and have no substantive effect.

27. Contact.

    Questions about these Terms or about the Service should be sent to contact@obry.app.