Terms of Use

1. Who you are contracting with, and what these terms cover

Blurt is operated by Ivan Chabanenko, Lutherstraße 12, 39112 Magdeburg, Germany — an Einzelunternehmen, not a company. Full details are in our Impressum. By downloading or using Blurt ("the app"), you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

Language of the contract. The contract is concluded in English, and English is the language in which we correspond with you. The statutory withdrawal instruction is additionally provided in German, which is the binding version of that instruction (see Right of withdrawal).

2. Licence, and what may end it

The Blurt app is provided to you under a personal, non-transferable licence to use it on Macs you own or control. You may not resell the app or reverse-engineer it except to the extent the law expressly permits.

We may suspend or terminate your licence or your access to the managed Cloud service only for a stated reason, namely:

• a serious or repeated breach of the acceptable-use rules in section 7 or the fair-use limits in section 8;
• use of the service for unlawful purposes, or in a way that damages or endangers the service or other users;
• credentials that are demonstrably compromised or shared beyond a single person, for as long as that lasts;
• non-payment after a reminder and a reasonable grace period;
• where we are required to do so by law or by a binding order.

Except where immediate action is necessary to prevent harm, we will warn you first and give you an opportunity to fix the problem. Where a suspension is not your fault, or lasts longer than the reason justifies, you get the corresponding part of your subscription fee back. Your statutory rights — including your right to terminate and your rights if the service is defective — are not affected.

3. Modes, keys, and accounts

Blurt can transcribe your dictation in two ways: on-device (the default on Apple Silicon); or via Blurt's managed Cloud plan. If you create an account or subscribe to the paid Cloud plan, you agree to provide accurate information and to keep your credentials secure. How data is handled in each mode is described in our Privacy Policy.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. If you are under 18, you need your parent's or guardian's agreement to take out a paid subscription (§§ 106 ff. BGB).

4. Subscriptions and billing

The paid Cloud plan is an optional, recurring subscription billed through our payment processor (Stripe). Blurt is the seller; Stripe only processes the payment. Prices, trials, and refund terms are described on our pricing page and in our refund policy. All prices shown are final prices — Kleinunternehmer gemäß § 19 UStG, es wird keine Umsatzsteuer ausgewiesen (no VAT is charged or shown). Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled.

You can cancel at any time — in the app, or online at Cancel contracts here. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.

5. How the contract comes about

This section is the information we owe you under § 312i Abs. 1 BGB and Art. 246c EGBGB.

5a. The technical steps.

1. You choose a plan (monthly or yearly) in the app or on the pricing page.
2. You sign in or create an account.
3. Our checkout page opens and shows your order: the service, the term, the total price, what is due today, and the cancellation conditions.
4. You enter your payment details and billing address.
5. You tick the box by which you expressly ask us to start the service before the withdrawal period has expired (this box is never pre-ticked).
6. You press "Subscribe with obligation to pay". That press is your binding order — nothing before it orders anything.
7. We confirm the contract to you by email, on a durable medium, including these terms and the withdrawal instruction (§ 312f Abs. 2 und 3 BGB).

5b. Correcting input errors. Up until you press the order button you can change every entry directly on the checkout page — switch the billing period, correct the payment fields and the billing address, untick the checkbox — or use your browser's back button, or simply close the page. Nothing is ordered and nothing is charged until the button is pressed. If you notice a mistake afterwards, write to support-blurt@chbnk.one; your 14-day right of withdrawal also remains available.

5c. Storage of the contract text. We do not store the text of your contract in a form you can call up from an account area later. Instead, you receive the full contract content — these terms as in force at that moment, the essential characteristics of the service, the price, the term and the withdrawal instruction — by email when the subscription starts, so you keep your own durable copy. The current version of these terms is always at blurt.me/terms.html, and every page on this site can be saved or printed in reproducible form (§ 312i Abs. 1 Nr. 4 BGB).

5d. Codes of conduct. We have not subscribed to any code of conduct.

6. Right of withdrawal (consumers in the EU)

If you are a consumer, you have a statutory right to withdraw from the subscription contract within 14 days, without giving a reason. The full statutory notice, the model withdrawal form, and the online withdrawal function are on our Right of withdrawal page. Nothing in these terms limits that right; our voluntary 30-day money-back guarantee (see refund policy) is in addition to it.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use Blurt for any unlawful purpose, to dictate content you have no right to process, or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system. You may not resell or redistribute the managed Cloud service, run it as a back-end for another product, or drive it with automated traffic instead of your own speech.

8. Fair use and the limits of the managed Cloud service

There is no daily limit and no per-dictation limit on the paid Cloud plan. There are, however, three ceilings that protect the service against abuse and against runaway cost when a credential is stolen. We would rather name them than hide behind the word "unlimited":

• 5,000,000 metered words per calendar month per account, counted in UTC. The counter charges each dictation twice — once for the transcript the speech model returns, and once for the text the clean-up model returns — so the ceiling is about 2,500,000 words you actually speak. At a natural 150 words a minute that is roughly 277 hours of speech, or about 9 hours of non-stop dictation every single day of the month.
• 30 requests per minute per account.
• 25 MiB (26,214,400 bytes) per single audio upload.

What happens if a limit is reached. We do not slow the service down, we do not charge extra, and we do not terminate your contract. The individual request is simply refused with an error and nothing is metered for it:

• The monthly ceiling: cloud dictation is refused until the counter resets at the start of the next calendar month (00:00 UTC on the 1st). In the app the cloud is switched off and — on Apple Silicon — dictation carries on on your Mac instead. On Intel Macs, which cannot run the on-device models, cloud dictation is unavailable until the reset.
• The rate limit: the request is refused and the next one a moment later succeeds. It clears within the minute.
• The upload size: that one recording is rejected; shorter recordings are unaffected.

Why they exist. Solely to stop abuse — a stolen or shared credential hammering the relay, automated resale of the service, or scripted traffic. They are set far above what a person can produce with their voice. If you ever reach the monthly ceiling through ordinary personal use, tell us at support-blurt@chbnk.one: that would mean we set the number wrong, and we will fix it rather than leave you without the service you paid for.

We will announce any lowering of these figures at least 30 days in advance under section 13, and you may terminate free of charge if you do not accept it.

9. If the service is defective — your statutory rights

A statutory liability for defects exists (es besteht ein gesetzliches Mängelhaftungsrecht). Blurt Pro is a digital service within the meaning of §§ 327 ff. BGB, and your statutory rights if it is not in conformity with the contract — to have the defect remedied, to reduce the price, to terminate, and to claim damages — apply in full. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits them.

In particular:

• We owe you updates, including security updates, for as long as the contract runs, so the service stays in conformity (§ 327f BGB).
• If the service is impaired for a period, the fee for that period is reduced by operation of law (§ 536 BGB). We do not exclude that either.

One thing we want you to know as a fact, not as a disclaimer: automatic speech recognition and automatic clean-up are never perfect. Words are misheard, names are spelled wrongly, and a clean-up pass can change emphasis. Please read what Blurt inserts before you rely on it — particularly in a message, a contract, a prescription or anywhere a wrong word costs something.

10. Liability

We are liable without limitation:

• for damage caused intentionally or by gross negligence;
• for injury to life, body or health;
• under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) and the corresponding European product-liability rules;
• where we have given a guarantee, or fraudulently concealed a defect.

For slight negligence we are liable only where we breach a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of this contract possible in the first place, and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the damage that is foreseeable and typical for a contract of this kind. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded.

These limits apply equally to our legal representatives and to anyone we use to perform the contract. They do not reverse the burden of proof to your disadvantage and do not affect your rights under section 9.

11. Third-party providers

To deliver the managed Cloud plan we rely on third-party providers for speech recognition, text clean-up, hosting, payment and email. They act as our processors on our instructions; the full list — who receives what, where they are, and on what legal basis data may leave the EEA — is on our list of processors and in the Privacy Policy. We announce a new provider there normally at least 30 days before it starts receiving data. The one exception: if a provider fails, withdraws, or has to be replaced at short notice to keep the service running or to close a security problem, we may switch sooner — and then update that list without delay, naming the provider, the date and the reason. We will not use that exception to sidestep the notice period, and your right to object and to terminate free of charge is unaffected.

We remain your contractual partner for the service as a whole, and section 10 governs our liability for it. Where a provider's own outage or defect causes the service to fall short, that is a defect of our service and section 9 applies — we do not push it onto you as "a third party's problem".

12. Data protection and business customers

How we handle personal data is described in our Privacy Policy. If you use Blurt as a business and need a data processing agreement, our DPA is public and forms part of these terms when you subscribe as a business — no separate signature is required. Our technical and organisational measures are on the security page.

13. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms for good reason — a change in the law or in case-law, a new or changed feature, a change in the providers or the cost structure the service depends on, or the closing of a loophole. We will not use this to change the essential balance of the contract.

We will tell you about an amendment by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, naming what changes and when. Until then the existing terms continue to apply. If you do not accept the amendment you may terminate the subscription free of charge, with effect at the latest on the date the amendment would take effect, and we refund the unused part of anything you have already paid.

Silence is not agreement to a material change. An amendment that materially changes the service, the price or your rights takes effect only if you actually agree to it; if you do not, the contract continues unchanged until it ends. Corrections of obvious errors and changes that are purely to your advantage take effect without this procedure.

14. Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms and the contract are governed by German law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Our place of business is Magdeburg, Germany.

If you are a consumer with your habitual residence in another state of the EU or EEA, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your own country of residence (Art. 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008, "Rome I"). The same applies to the courts you may sue in: the consumer-protection rules of your country of residence remain available to you.

Consumer dispute resolution (§ 36, § 37 VSBG). Wir sind nicht bereit und nicht verpflichtet, an Streitbeilegungsverfahren vor einer Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle teilzunehmen. — We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board. You can of course always contact us directly at support-blurt@chbnk.one, and your right to go to court is unaffected.

15. Trademarks

Blurt is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple, OpenAI, Groq, Soniox, ElevenLabs, OpenRouter, DeepInfra or any other provider named here. macOS and Apple Silicon are trademarks of Apple Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective owners. Open-source components and their licences are listed on our acknowledgements page.

16. Severability

If a provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the rest remains in force and the statutory rules take the place of the invalid provision.

17. Contact

Questions? Email support-blurt@chbnk.one, or use the support page.