Dictate / Terms
Licence & terms
The short version: pay $49 once, use Dictate for life on all your computers, and get your money back within 30 days if it isn't for you.
Last updated 2026-10-14.
Trying Dictate
Dictate is free to download and every feature works for 7 days from the first time you open it. After that, dictation stops until you enter a licence key. Your settings stay as they are.
What you buy
A licence key costs $49, once. It is a personal licence: it lets you use Dictate on every computer you use, on every platform Dictate supports, now and in the future, including every future version. There is no subscription, no paid upgrade and no limit on the number of computers. Please don't share your key with other people; each person who uses Dictate needs their own.
Your key is checked on your computer and works with the network off. Dictate never asks a server whether you may dictate.
Paying
Checkout is run by Stripe, which sells Dictate on our behalf through Link as the merchant of record. Stripe's payment terms apply to the purchase: it takes your payment, charges any sales tax or VAT, and sends your receipt. Your card statement shows LINK.COM* DICTATE. After paying, you get your key straight away on license.offlinedictation.app.
Refunds
If Dictate isn't for you, email support@offlinedictation.app within 30 days of buying and you get a full refund. No questions asked. Once refunded, the licence ends, so please stop using the key.
That is longer than the 14 days EU law gives you to withdraw from an online purchase, wherever you live.
Lost keys
Email support@offlinedictation.app from the address you bought with, and we'll send your key again.
What you say stays yours
Dictate turns speech into text on your computer. We never receive your audio or your text. The privacy page lists every network connection the app makes.
The software
We work to make Dictate reliable, but it is provided as is: speech recognition makes mistakes, so check anything important before you send it. As far as the law allows, our liability is limited to the price you paid. Nothing here limits the rights consumer law gives you where you live.
You may not resell Dictate, or remove or work around its licence check.
Changes
If these terms change, the date above changes with them. A change never takes away what you already bought: a lifetime licence stays a lifetime licence.
Who we are
Dictate is made by cphtech (CVR 34832811) in Denmark. Danish law applies to these terms, without taking away the protection of your own country's consumer law. Questions: support@offlinedictation.app.