These terms cover your use of Sonant, the macOS app you downloaded from sonant.tbtech.app, and the website itself. They exist because we have to have them. We've kept them short, honest, and in language a human can read.
1. Who you're dealing with
Sonant is built by TB Tech, a one-person independent software studio. For the purposes of these terms, "we", "us", and "TB Tech" all mean the same thing. Our email is [email protected] — a real person answers.
Your purchase is processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the Merchant of Record. That means Lemon Squeezy (not us) is your contracting counterparty for the payment itself — they handle VAT, sales tax, invoicing, chargebacks, and refunds. We remain the licensor of the software and the party you contact for support, license activation issues, and anything to do with the app itself.
2. What you're buying
You're buying a perpetual, non-exclusive license to run the Sonant macOS application on your own computers. One purchase unlocks:
- Up to 5 activations on devices you personally own or use (Mac desktops and laptops).
- All future updates released under the current major version (1.x).
- Unlimited license duration — the license does not expire.
You do not receive the source code. You do not own the software; you own a license to use it.
3. The 7-day free trial
You can use Sonant free for seven days on each device before buying. No credit card is required to start the trial. At the end of the trial period, the app will prompt you for a license key. The trial is provided "as is" with no guarantee of continued availability.
4. Pricing, payments, and taxes
The price listed at the point of purchase is the price you pay. Local sales tax, VAT, or GST (where applicable) is added automatically by Lemon Squeezy according to your jurisdiction and is shown at checkout. All prices are in US Dollars unless the checkout displays otherwise.
5. Refunds
We want you to be happy. If Sonant doesn't work for you within the first 14 days of purchase, email [email protected] with your order number and we'll authorize a full refund — no interrogation, no justification required.
Because Lemon Squeezy is the Merchant of Record, refunds are processed through them. You can also reach Lemon Squeezy directly at [email protected] and they'll handle it per their standard refund policy.
After 14 days, refunds are at our discretion but we are generally reasonable about defects, upgrade-breakages, and situations that are clearly our fault.
6. What you can and can't do with Sonant
You may:
- Install and run Sonant on any Mac you personally own or use, up to the activation limit.
- Use it for personal or commercial purposes (listening to music at work counts).
- Deactivate a device to free up an activation slot — email us and we'll help if the app can't do it for you.
You may not:
- Share your license key with other people or publish it anywhere.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, except to the extent that local law specifically permits it (e.g. interoperability under EU Directive 2009/24/EC).
- Resell, relicense, rent, lease, or sublicense the software.
- Strip out or modify the license check mechanisms.
- Use the software to harm others, violate their privacy, or break any law.
7. Updates
We ship updates when they're ready. Minor updates (bug fixes, small improvements, new features within 1.x) are included with your purchase. A future major version (2.0) may be a paid upgrade, but existing 1.x users will always get a fair upgrade path and will never lose access to their current version.
8. Anonymous usage data
Sonant sends an anonymous heartbeat to our server (an anonymous install ID, the app version, and your macOS major version) at most once every 24 hours so we can count active installs and decide which OS versions to keep supporting. We do not collect any track titles, listening history, your email, or anything that personally identifies you. The Privacy page explains the full payload. You can disable these pings at any time from Settings → General → Privacy in the app — there is no functional consequence to opting out.
9. Third-party services
Sonant integrates with a handful of external services. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them. Use of those services is governed by their own terms.
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Apple Music and Spotify — Sonant
reads the current track and sends playback commands
via native AppleScript bridges. Optionally, you can
connect your Spotify account in Settings → Accounts
to enable the Up Next queue; that uses
Spotify's official Web API with the
user-read-playback-statescope. OAuth tokens stay in your Mac's Keychain. - lrclib.net — when you open the Now Playing preview or enable the widget's lyric line, Sonant fetches synced lyrics from lrclib.net, sending the current track's title, artist, and album. Privacy details are on the Privacy page.
- Sparkle + Apple notarization — update checks fetch a signed appcast from our own server; Apple validates each build's notarization ticket when it lands.
If any of these services change their APIs in ways that break Sonant's integration, we'll fix it as quickly as we reasonably can, but we can't guarantee uptime for something we don't control.
10. Ownership
We own Sonant. The source code, icon, branding, design, name, and website content are the property of TB Tech and protected under international copyright and trademark law. Your license under these terms does not transfer any of that ownership to you.
11. Warranty and liability
Sonant is provided "as is". We've tested it carefully and use it ourselves every day, but we can't promise it will be bug-free, compatible with every future version of macOS, or suitable for every use case. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Our total liability to you for anything arising out of these terms or your use of Sonant is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. We are not liable for indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost data, or lost listening streaks — even if we were warned they were possible.
None of this limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived under consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction.
12. Termination
You can stop using Sonant at any time. Your license continues to be valid as long as you follow these terms. If you materially breach them — for example, redistributing cracked keys — we can terminate the license and deactivate the associated key. In that case, you agree to stop using the app.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time to reflect new features, new services, or changes in law. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will always reflect the current version. For material changes that affect your rights, we'll email every active newsletter subscriber and post a notice on this page before the new version takes effect. Continuing to use Sonant after an update means you accept the updated terms.
14. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes that cannot be resolved by friendly email will be brought exclusively before the courts of Istanbul, Türkiye. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose consumer-protection laws cannot be contractually waived, your mandatory local rights continue to apply regardless of this clause.
15. Severability
If any part of these terms is found unenforceable by a court, the rest keeps working. We'll interpret the invalid clause in the way that comes closest to its original intent within the bounds of the law.
16. Contact
Questions, complaints, ideas, or gentle disagreements about anything on this page — email [email protected]. We read every message.