Great Scott Labs

Lickety

License agreement

This is the agreement you accept when you install Lickety. It is short on purpose and written to be read. The company-wide Privacy and Refunds pages cover every product; this one covers Lickety.

Lickety — End User License Agreement Version 1.0 · 15 October 2026

This Agreement is between you and Great Scott Labs LLC ("we", "us"). By installing or using Lickety ("the Software"), you agree to it. It's short on purpose — please read it.

1. What you're buying

Buy once, own it forever. You pay once, and the Software is yours to use, with no end date, on the terms below.

Not a subscription. Not a rental. There is no expiry date, no renewal, and no recurring charge of any kind.

2. What the license covers

Your license permits one person — you — to install and use the Software on up to 3 PCs that you personally use, for personal or commercial work.

To move Lickety to a new PC, press Deactivate this PC on the About screen of the old one first. If the old PC is dead, activate the new one anyway; there is room built in for crashes and replacements. If that fails, email us and we will sort it out. We'd rather be slightly generous than argue about a dead hard drive.

It doesn't cover other people. If a second person is dictating with it, that's a second license.

3. What you may not do

  • Resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute the Software.
  • Reverse-engineer it, except where law says you may regardless of this clause.
  • Remove or alter licensing, attribution or copyright notices.
  • Share your license key publicly, or use it for more people than §2 allows.

4. What the Software sends, and when

Dictation, transcription, notes and commands all happen on your own PC. Lickety makes five kinds of request over the internet, and these are all of them. None of them carries anything you dictated, typed, opened or saved: no audio, no text, no vocabulary, no setting, no file name and no usage figure. There is no crash reporter, no analytics and no telemetry.

  1. Applying your license key (paid version only, and only when you press Apply). The key goes to our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy, with a random name for this PC — eight random characters, not taken from your computer. This is how your 3 PCs are counted.
  2. One settling check, about ten weeks after you buy (paid version only). Your key alone goes to Lemon Squeezy to confirm it has not been refunded since. If it has been refunded or disabled, or is not found, the key is removed from that PC and Lickety returns to the free version. Once an answer arrives, the check is never made again. If the PC is offline, it simply waits; being offline never removes your license.
  3. Deactivating a PC (only when you press that button). The key and the PC's activation ID go to Lemon Squeezy, so the machine stops counting against your 3.
  4. The update check (free and paid versions). At most once a day while Lickety is running, it reads one small file on greatscottlabs.co to see whether a newer version exists. The request carries nothing — no key, no ID, no version number — only the name "Lickety". It is named on the first screen you see, and you can turn it off there or later on the About screen.
  5. Downloading an update (only if you choose Download and install). Nothing is downloaded until you choose it, and Lickety runs the file only if it matches the published fingerprint and carries our signature.

Requests 1 to 3 go to Lemon Squeezy; requests 4 and 5 come to our website. Like any web request, each carries the PC's internet address, and the servers keep ordinary access logs. Our web server's log records an address, a time and the word "Lickety". We cannot turn that log off.

What this means in practice:

  • The free version never sends a key or a license request. Its only request is the update check, which you can switch off.
  • After a PC is activated it works offline. If the settling check cannot connect, your license is left exactly as it is; only an explicit answer from Lemon Squeezy that the key was refunded, disabled or unknown ever removes it.
  • We cannot remotely switch off your copy. The only way a paid copy returns to the free version is the settling check finding that the key was refunded or disabled.
  • It cannot stop working because a service went down or a company was sold (§10).
  • Nothing you dictate ever leaves your machine.

You can verify all of this with any network monitor. The same list is on our Privacy page at greatscottlabs.co/privacy/. If a future version ever needs a request that is not on this list, it will be named before it happens, it will say why, and anything that is not required to make your license work will come with a switch.

5. Your data

Everything the Software handles — your voice, your transcriptions, your vocabulary, your replacements, your history — stays on your machine. The requests in §4 carry none of it, so we never receive it, and we could not receive it if we wanted to.

We do not use anything you dictate to train anything. We can't; we never have it.

If you choose to send us a diagnostic report, that's a file you export deliberately and send yourself. We see nothing you didn't attach.

When you buy, Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record and holds your purchase record. We keep your name, your email, what you bought and when, so that we can resend your key if you lose it. Our Privacy page has the detail.

6. Refunds

60 days, no questions asked.

Lickety has a free tier, so you never have to buy it to find out whether it works for you. If you do buy it and it isn't for you, email support@greatscottlabs.co from the address you bought with, within 60 days of purchase, and we'll refund you in full. No form, no reason required, no retention offer. Payments and refunds are handled by our payment provider, so the money goes back to the card or account it came from.

When the refund goes through, your license key is switched off and Lickety goes back to the free version, which you are welcome to keep using.

And a broken promise has no deadline. If Lickety stops working on a supported version of Windows and we can't fix it, we'll refund you whenever you bought it.

We reserve the right, reasonably, to decline abuse — repeated refunds across multiple license keys or accounts.

Nothing here reduces any statutory cancellation right you have under your local consumer law.

7. The free tier

Lickety is free to use, permanently. It has limits, and the limits are the only difference between free and paid.

  • Words. New installations start with a larger allowance, so you can see what unlimited dictation is like before deciding. After that the free version has a weekly word allowance that resets every week.
  • Notes, commands and Transcribe. The free version has a cap on the number of notes you keep, a cap on the number of voice-command rows you add yourself, and a monthly allowance of audio you transcribe from files.

Lickety's Help describes the current limits. Nothing is ever deleted or locked when you reach one: your notes, commands and finished transcripts stay usable and editable, and only adding more waits for the next period, or for a license key. The free version never stops working and never expires.

Within those limits it is the whole program — same recognition, same vocabulary, same formatting. We don't ship a deliberately worse build and call it free. Paying removes the limits; it doesn't unlock features that were being withheld.

The counts are kept on your machine. We don't know how much you dictate, because the count never leaves your PC (§4).

8. Updates

Three different things get called "updates," and they have three different answers.

Fixes are free, always. Bug fixes and security updates for your version of Lickety cost nothing, for as long as we support that version (§9). Everyone gets every fix, free and paid.

Improvements to your version are free too. If we make Lickety 1 better, you get it. We don't hold features back from the version you own to make the next one look necessary.

The next major version is a new purchase. We expect to release a major version roughly every two to three years. When we do, it's a separate purchase — and existing owners get at least 50% off.

We've written it this way round because the alternative is a promise we couldn't keep. One person cannot maintain every version ever shipped, forever, for free — and a license that says otherwise is a license that eventually gets broken. We'd rather tell you the truth now than apologize later.

Lickety checks daily whether a newer version is out (§4) and tells you when one is. It never installs anything on its own: nothing is downloaded or installed until you choose it, and you choose when.

9. How long your version is supported

When a new major version of Lickety is released, the previous version continues to receive security and bug fixes for at least 24 months.

You are never forced to upgrade. Your copy keeps working indefinitely either way (§1, §4) — this clause is about how long we keep fixing it, not how long it runs.

10. If we disappear

If Great Scott Labs LLC stops developing the Software, or is acquired and the acquirer stops it:

  • The Software keeps working. An activated PC does not need us to exist, and after the settling check has had its one answer, a paid copy asks nobody for anything.
  • We'll give at least 90 days' notice on our website and in the app.
  • We'll leave the last release available for download for at least 12 months.
  • If you bought within the previous 12 months, we'll offer a pro-rata refund.

We're stating this plainly because it's the fair question to ask anyone selling buy-once software, and because our answer is unusually good: once your PC is activated, there is nothing left to shut off.

11. Third-party components

Lickety includes open-source components under their own licenses. Full notices ship with the Software and are listed at https://greatscottlabs.co/licenses/:

  • Whisper model (OpenAI) and whisper.cpp / ggml — MIT
  • Whisper.net — MIT
  • NAudio — MIT
  • Microsoft.Data.Sqlite — MIT
  • SQLite — public domain; SQLitePCLRaw — Apache-2.0
  • System.Security.Cryptography.ProtectedData — MIT

Those licenses govern those components. This Agreement covers the rest.

12. What we don't promise

The Software is provided as is. Speech recognition is imperfect by nature: it will occasionally mishear, and it will occasionally produce text you didn't say — even from clear audio. That's the state of the technology, not a defect in this product, and it is true of every tool built on it.

Read back anything that matters. We can't warrant that transcription is accurate, and neither can anyone else.

To the extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

13. Liability

To the extent the law allows, our total liability is limited to what you paid.

We're not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profits, lost data, lost time — arising from use of the Software.

Nothing here limits liability that can't be limited by law: death or personal injury from negligence, fraud, or anything else your jurisdiction won't let us exclude.

14. Your legal rights

Nothing in this Agreement removes rights you have under the consumer protection law of your country. Where a term here conflicts with a right you can't waive, that right wins.

15. Support

Best effort, by email at support@greatscottlabs.co. We're a small operation and don't offer a guaranteed response time.

16. Governing law

Texas, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If your local consumer law grants you rights in your own courts, §14 applies.

17. Everything else

  • Entire agreement. This is the whole deal between us about the Software.
  • Severability. If a clause is unenforceable, the rest stands.
  • No waiver. Not enforcing something once doesn't forfeit it.
  • Changes. Changes to this Agreement apply to future purchases. The terms you bought under are the terms you keep.
  • Assignment. We may transfer this Agreement if the business is sold; §10 still applies.

18. Contact

Great Scott Labs LLC 111 E 17th St #13327 SMB#118346 Austin, TX 78701 support@greatscottlabs.co https://greatscottlabs.co/

Plain English is deliberate. If anything here is unclear, ask — we'd rather explain it than rely on you not reading it.