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These terms cover your use of the Rooster application and this website. The short version: the video you make is yours, the software is licensed rather than sold, and because Rooster runs on your Mac we cannot reach into your work or take it away from you.

Last updated: 27 October 2026

1. Who you are agreeing with

Rooster is operated from 25 Wilton Road, Pimlico, London SW1V 1LW, United Kingdom. Contact support@rooster.cam. By installing or using Rooster you accept these terms; if you do not accept them, do not use it.

2. Your work is yours

You keep every right you already had in the video, audio, transcripts and exports you create with Rooster. We claim no licence over them, and we could not exercise one if we did: your media never reaches us. You are responsible for having the rights to the material you bring into Rooster, including music, footage and the consent of people you record.

3. Your licence to use Rooster

Rooster is licensed, not sold. Subject to these terms you may install and use it on a limited number of Macs you own or control, as set out in the licence you buy. You may not resell it, rent it, or attempt to defeat its licensing. You may not copy, modify, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer Rooster, or build a product from any part of it, except as these terms allow or to the extent applicable law expressly permits or an open source component’s own licence allows (see section 5). Where Rooster is obtained through the Mac App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement also applies, and where it conflicts with these terms on a point Apple requires, Apple’s terms govern.

Good-faith security research is an exception. You may examine, test, modify, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer a copy of Rooster you are entitled to use, on a Mac you own or control, to find security or privacy problems, provided you report what you find to us as the security page describes, give us a reasonable opportunity to fix it before publishing details, and do not access anyone else’s data or Mac. We will not pursue a claim under these terms against research done that way. The exception does not extend to publishing or distributing Rooster’s code, decompiled or otherwise, beyond what is needed to describe the problem, or to using what you learn to build a product.

4. Buying, trials and refunds

Rooster is sold through Creem, operated by Armitage Labs OÜ, which acts as our reseller and merchant of record: when you buy a licence, you are buying from Creem, at a checkout Creem runs. Creem takes the payment, issues the receipt and any invoice, charges and remits any VAT or sales tax - our listed prices include it - and operates the refund process. We never receive or store your card details.

Rooster's free trial runs inside the application for 14 days from the first time you open it on a Mac. It needs no payment method and no account. When it ends, Rooster opens your projects read-only until a licence is activated; nothing is deleted. Subscriptions are charged at checkout, renew until cancelled, and can be cancelled at any time at Creem’s customer portal or from the link in your receipt.

The founder price sold at launch is the monthly subscription at a lower price. You keep it for as long as that subscription continues; cancelling it ends the founder price, and it cannot be taken up again once the offer has closed.

A lifetime licence is a single payment for a permanent licence to use Rooster, and it includes every future update to Rooster we release, at no further cost and with nothing to renew. The lifetime licence is sold on the direct download only. A lifetime licence is refunded in full if you ask within 30 days of buying it, for any reason.

Your licence key is in the receipt email from Creem. Rooster needs a licence once its free trial ends: enter the key in Rooster, in Settings > Licence, to activate it on a Mac. A licence is active on up to two Macs at a time, and Deactivate This Mac in the same place frees a Mac’s place for another. If a subscription ends or a licence is refunded, Rooster opens your projects read-only until a licence is current again. What activation sends, and to whom, is in the privacy policy. If something has gone wrong with a purchase, or you want a refund, write to support@rooster.cam and we will sort it out with Creem.

Where Rooster is obtained through the Mac App Store, Apple takes that payment instead and Apple’s refund process applies; we cannot issue a refund for a purchase we did not process. If something has gone wrong with any purchase, still write to us and we will help you sort it out.

5. Open source and third-party models

Rooster is built on open source work by others, credited with its full licence texts on the licences page. Those components remain under their own licences. Transcription models you download or supply yourself are covered by whatever licence you obtained them under, not by these terms.

One component, LAME, is under the GNU Library General Public License. It writes MP3 exports in the copy of Rooster downloaded from rooster.cam; the Mac App Store version does not include it. Despite section 3, you may modify that copy of Rooster for your own use so that it works with a modified version of LAME, and reverse engineer it to debug such modifications. LAME’s source, and the script Rooster builds it with, are linked from the licences page.

6. Services you choose to connect

Rooster can transcribe using an API key you supply for a third-party service. If you do, your agreement is with that provider and their terms and pricing apply to that use; Rooster meters nothing. We are not responsible for their service, their availability or what they do with what you send them.

7. Acceptable use

Do not use Rooster to break the law, to infringe other people’s rights, or to record people where you have no right to. What you make is your responsibility.

You may not use Rooster to produce anything depicting or sexualising a minor, intimate or sexual imagery of a real person without their consent, manipulated imagery of a real identifiable person without their consent, such as face-swaps and deepfakes, or material intended to harass, defame or deceive. The acceptable use policy sets out the full list and forms part of these terms.

8. Warranties and liability

Rooster is provided as it is, without any warranty that it will be uninterrupted or error free, or that it will suit a particular purpose. Video work is unforgiving of lost data, so keep your own backups of anything you cannot afford to lose. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. Subject to that, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid for Rooster in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue or data.

If you are a consumer, you have statutory rights that these terms do not affect.

9. Ending it

You may stop using Rooster at any time by deleting it; your projects and exports remain on your Mac. We may end your licence if you materially breach these terms.

10. Changes and governing law

We may update these terms, and will change the date above when we do. They are governed by the law of England and Wales, whose courts have exclusive jurisdiction, though if you are a consumer you may bring proceedings where you live.