Terms

Last updated 7 November 2026.

These terms cover your use of Prates, the dictation and writing app for Mac, and your subscription to it. Prates is made by Sondre Vigerust in Oslo, Norway. By installing or using Prates you accept these terms.

The trial

Prates starts with seven days of full access. To use it, you sign in with your email address and a six-digit code that Prates emails you. There is no password, and no card is needed for the trial. The trial belongs to your account and to each Mac, so it does not start again when you reinstall Prates or sign in with another address. A virtual machine, or an address from a throwaway email service, gets no trial but can still subscribe.

When the trial ends, dictation, file transcription, rewriting, learning, and suggestions stop until you subscribe. Everything Prates has stored on your Mac stays there and remains readable and exportable.

Subscribing and paying

A subscription costs $9.99 a month, plus any VAT or sales tax that applies where you live. Payments are handled by Polar Software, Inc., which sells Prates as the merchant of record. Polar’s own terms apply to the purchase itself, and Polar issues your receipts and invoices.

If you subscribe during the trial, the days left of it come before the first payment. After that the subscription renews each month until you cancel.

Cancelling and refunds

You can cancel at any time in Polar’s customer portal. Prates keeps working until the end of the month you have paid for. If something has gone wrong with a payment, write to support@prates.ai and we will sort it out with you. Nothing in these terms limits the rights you have under consumer law where you live.

Your license

While your subscription is active, you may use Prates on up to three Macs that you use yourself. Your account is personal: please do not share it, sell it, or try to get around the subscription check. You may not copy, resell, or redistribute Prates, or remove its notices.

Prates contains open-source components under their own licenses. They are listed in Prates under Settings, General, Acknowledgements.

Your content

What you dictate, write, and keep in Prates belongs to you. Prates stores it on your Mac and does not send it to us. If you turn on backup, Prates also keeps a copy of your notes, corrections, and dictionary in a Git repository that you own. The privacy policy explains exactly what Prates sends, and where.

If you connect Prates to a language model run by someone else, such as a cloud provider or an AI tool you use, that provider’s terms apply to what you send it. The same goes for the service that hosts your backup repository. You are responsible for having the right to use that service.

Updates and changes

Subscribers get every update. We may change features over time, and we will give at least 30 days’ notice, in Prates and on this page, before we change the price or these terms in a way that affects you. If you do not accept a change, you can cancel before it takes effect.

Warranty and liability

We work hard to make Prates reliable, but speech recognition and language models make mistakes. Read what Prates pastes before you send it. Prates is provided as it is, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for more than you paid for Prates in the twelve months before a claim.

Law and contact

Norwegian law governs these terms, without taking away the protection the consumer law of your own country gives you. Write to support@prates.ai with any question.