Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of the Bubble Translate application for macOS (the “App”) and the translation service it connects to (the “Service”), operated by Aleksei Artemev (“we”, “us”). By downloading or using the App you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

1. The App and the Service

The App lets you translate selected text on your Mac, replace text with its translation, keep a translation history, and learn the words you look up. Translations are produced by the Service: text you submit is sent to our servers, processed by a machine-translation engine, and returned to you. The Service requires an internet connection; the App does not translate offline and does not read text from images.

The App is distributed through the Mac App Store. Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to the App itself; these Terms additionally govern the Service. Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the App or the Service.

2. Free tier and fair use

The App is free to download and includes a daily free allowance (currently 40 translations and 20 flashcard lookups per day; counters reset daily). We may adjust the size of the free allowance to keep the Service sustainable. To protect the Service, we apply technical rate limits and may restrict or block usage that circumvents quotas, abuses the infrastructure, or sends automated traffic.

3. Subscriptions and purchases

Bubble Translate Pro removes the daily limits. Purchases are made through your Apple account, and Apple processes all payments — we never see your payment details.

• Subscriptions (monthly, annual, family) renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Where a free trial is offered, the subscription starts charging when the trial ends unless cancelled before that.
• Lifetime is a one-time purchase that unlocks Pro permanently on the Apple account that bought it.
• Refunds are handled by Apple under App Store rules.

Prices are shown in the App in your local currency before you confirm a purchase and may change; changes never apply retroactively to a period you have already paid for.

4. Your content

The text you translate is and remains yours. We claim no rights to it, we do not store it on our servers after your request is completed, and we use it only to produce the translation you asked for. Your translation history and word base are stored on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your personal iCloud account.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Service for unlawful purposes or to process content you have no right to process;
• probe, overload, disrupt, or circumvent the technical limits of the Service, or access it by any means other than the App;
• resell the Service or offer it to third parties as your own product.

6. Availability and changes

We work to keep the Service fast and available, but it is provided without an uptime guarantee: machine-translation providers, hosting, and networks can fail. We may modify features of the App and the Service over time; if we ever discontinue the Service, subscription renewals will stop with it.

7. Disclaimer of warranties

Translations are produced automatically and may be inaccurate. The App and the Service are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. Do not rely on automatic translations where a mistake could cause harm — have important texts reviewed by a professional.

8. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the App or the Service, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for the Service in the twelve months preceding the claim. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or your statutory consumer rights.

9. Termination

You can stop using the App at any time by deleting it. We may suspend or terminate access to the Service for material breach of these Terms, including abuse described in sections 2 and 5.

10. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the App and the Service evolve. The current version always lives at this address, with the date above. Material changes will be noted in the App or in release notes. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

11. Contact

Questions about these Terms: bt@appto.you. How we handle data is described in the Privacy Policy.