Terms of Service

01Acceptance of these terms

By downloading, installing, or using Emma — Voice Keyboard ("Emma," "the app"), you agree to these Terms and to Emma's Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.

02What Emma is

Emma is a custom iOS keyboard that turns your spoken voice into written text, with an automatic rewrite pass to clean up filler words, punctuation, and phrasing. It's built for use across languages including English and Afrikaans, and works by sending your dictation to a cloud service we operate to produce the transcript and its polished version.

03Emma Premium & the free trial

Emma's full experience — unlimited, always-polished dictation for normal personal use (see Fair use below) — requires an Emma Premium subscription. It is billed monthly in your local currency, and the price for your country is shown in the app and on the App Store before you subscribe.

New users get a free trial: 2 weeks of use, or 40 dictations, whichever you reach first. No payment method is required to start the trial. Once it ends, continuing to use Emma requires subscribing.

Fair use. Premium is unlimited for normal personal dictation. To keep Emma fast and fair for everyone, the rewrite pass is limited to a reasonable amount of personal use, currently 2,000 rewrites a month (about 65 a day). If you reach the limit, Emma keeps turning your speech into text but pauses the rewrite until the start of the next calendar month (UTC). Automated use, use shared between people, or use far beyond personal dictation may be limited or ended under section 8. We may adjust these limits and will give notice of significant changes in the app.

• Subscriptions are billed through your Apple ID and auto-renew monthly unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal date.
• Manage or cancel anytime in your iPhone's Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Emma has no way to cancel it for you.
• Refunds are handled entirely by Apple under their own refund policy — we can't issue refunds directly.
• Prices may change; we'll give notice before any change affects your renewal.

04Acceptable use

Use Emma the way it's meant to be used. Don't:

• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the models or infrastructure behind Emma.
• Use Emma to generate or transcribe content that's illegal, harassing, or infringes someone else's rights.
• Attempt to overload, abuse, or gain unauthorized access to Emma's servers.
• Resell, sublicense, or redistribute access to Emma without our written permission.

05Your content

What you dictate is yours. We don't claim ownership over your transcribed text, and we only process it to provide the transcription and polish features described in our Privacy Policy.

06No warranty

Emma is provided "as is." Speech transcription and AI-based rewriting aren't perfect — we work to make them accurate and useful, but we don't guarantee that every transcription or polished result will be error-free, or that the service will be available without interruption.

07Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of Emma, including inaccurate transcriptions or service interruptions. Nothing here limits liability that can't legally be limited.

08Termination

You can stop using Emma and delete the app at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for anyone who violates these Terms, particularly the Acceptable Use section above.

09Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of South Africa, without regard to conflict-of-law principles, except where local consumer protection law in your own country gives you rights these Terms can't override.

10Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms as Emma evolves. If a change is significant, we'll flag it in the app before it takes effect.

11Contact

Questions about these Terms: ruan.botha.live@gmail.com.