These terms govern your use of Sonant, the macOS app available from sonant.soluneal.com and through Setapp, and of this website.
1. About us
Sonant is published by Penumbreal, a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered in the Netherlands under KvK number 42159345 (VAT identification number, btw-id, NL005545981B19), at De Nieuwe Erven 3, Unit 15248, 5431 NV Cuijk, The Netherlands. Soluneal is the trade name under which Penumbreal publishes its macOS apps. In these terms, "we", "us", "Soluneal", and "Penumbreal" refer to this business. You can contact us at contact@penumbreal.com.
Purchases are processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the Merchant of Record. Lemon Squeezy is therefore your contracting party for the payment and handles VAT, sales tax, invoicing, chargebacks, and refunds. We remain the licensor of the software and your point of contact for support, license activation, and the app itself.
Order confirmations and your license key are sent by email from Lemon Squeezy on our behalf. Product-update emails are separate and are sent only if you opted in at checkout or subscribed later. Each contains an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing does not affect your license. See the Privacy Policy for details.
If you obtain Sonant through Setapp, the seller of that copy is MacPaw Way Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus), which acts as the merchant of record. Setapp handles payment, invoicing, taxes, and refunds under its own terms of use and refund policy. We remain the licensor of the software and your point of contact for the app itself. A Setapp copy has no license key: it is linked to your Setapp account, and obtaining it does not add you to our product-update list. Where a Setapp copy works differently from a direct purchase, the sections below say so.
2. License
A purchase grants you a perpetual, non-exclusive license to run the Sonant macOS application on your own computers. It includes:
- Up to 5 activations on Macs you own or use.
- All updates released within the current major version (1.x).
- No expiry: the license does not expire.
A copy obtained through Setapp is covered by the same license. Instead of activations, it runs on the Macs signed in to your Setapp account, within the device limit Setapp sets, and Setapp allows you to reinstall it as often as you need.
The license does not include the source code. You acquire a license to use the software, not ownership of it.
3. Free trial
You may use Sonant free of charge for seven days on each Mac before purchasing. No payment details are required to start the trial. When the trial ends, the app asks for a license key. The trial is provided "as is" and may be changed or withdrawn. A Setapp copy follows Setapp's own trial terms, if Setapp offers a trial for it.
4. Prices, payment, and taxes
The price shown at checkout is the price you pay. It includes VAT, sales tax, or GST where applicable, which Lemon Squeezy calculates for your jurisdiction and shows at checkout. Prices are in euros. If you pay in another currency, your bank or card issuer may convert the amount and charge its own fees. For a Setapp copy, the price and any tax are shown at Setapp's checkout and charged by Setapp.
5. Refunds
If you request a refund within 14 days of purchase, we will authorize a full refund. Email contact@penumbreal.com with your order number; no reason is required.
As Lemon Squeezy is the Merchant of Record, refunds are processed through Lemon Squeezy. You can also contact Lemon Squeezy directly at help@lemonsqueezy.com, which handles requests under its standard refund policy.
Refunds for a copy obtained through Setapp are handled by Setapp under its refund policy; please contact support@setapp.com. If you contact us instead, we will refer you to Setapp and support your request.
Refund requests made after 14 days are at our discretion. We consider in particular defects, problems caused by an update, and other issues attributable to us.
Right of withdrawal (EU and UK consumers). Sonant is digital content that is delivered immediately. Lemon Squeezy's buyer terms state that by completing the purchase you agree to immediate delivery and lose the statutory right of withdrawal once delivery has begun; for Sonant, delivery is the license key. Our refund commitment above applies regardless: a request made within 14 days of purchase receives a full refund. Purchases through Setapp are subject to Setapp's terms.
6. Permitted and prohibited use
You may:
- Install and run Sonant on Macs you own or use, up to the activation limit.
- Use Sonant for personal or commercial purposes.
- Deactivate a Mac to free an activation. If the app cannot do this for you, contact us and we will assist.
You may not:
- Share your license key with others or publish it.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, except to the extent permitted by applicable law (for example, for interoperability under EU Directive 2009/24/EC).
- Resell, relicense, rent, lease, or sublicense the software.
- Remove, bypass, or modify the license check.
- Use the software to harm others, violate their privacy, or break the law.
7. Updates
Updates within major version 1.x, including bug fixes, improvements, and new features, are included in your purchase. A future major version (2.0) may be offered as a paid upgrade. Existing 1.x users will be offered a fair upgrade path and will keep access to their current version. A Setapp copy receives the same updates, delivered through Setapp instead of Sonant's own update mechanism.
8. Third-party services
Sonant works with the external services listed below. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them, and their use is governed by their own terms.
- Apple Music and Spotify: Sonant reads the current track and sends playback commands through each player's AppleScript interface. No account, sign-in, or API key is involved.
- lrclib.net: when you open the Now Playing preview or enable the widget's lyric line, Sonant retrieves synced lyrics from lrclib.net, sending the current track's title, artist, and album. See the Privacy Policy for details.
- Sparkle and Apple notarization (direct downloads): update checks retrieve a signed appcast from our own server, and Apple validates each build's notarization ticket on installation.
- Setapp: the Setapp copy contains the Setapp framework, which signs you in with your Setapp account, verifies your purchase, and reports that the app is in use so that Setapp can calculate our share. Setapp's terms of use and privacy notice apply to it. The direct download from this site does not contain the framework.
If changes to these services affect Sonant's integration, we will work to restore it within a reasonable time, but we cannot guarantee the availability of services we do not control.
9. Intellectual property
Sonant, including its source code, icon, branding, design, name, and website content, is the property of Penumbreal and is protected by copyright and trademark law. This license does not transfer any ownership rights to you.
10. Warranty and liability
Sonant is provided "as is". We do not warrant that it will be free of errors, compatible with every future version of macOS, or suitable for every purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Our total liability arising out of these terms or your use of Sonant is limited to 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 or lost data, even if we were advised of their possibility.
Nothing in these terms limits rights that cannot be excluded under the consumer protection law of your jurisdiction.
11. Termination
You may stop using Sonant at any time. Your license remains valid for as long as you comply with these terms. If you materially breach them, for example by distributing license keys, we may terminate the license and deactivate the associated key, in which case you must stop using the app.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms to reflect new features, new services, or changes in law. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page indicates the current version. For material changes that affect your rights, we publish a notice on this page and in Sonant's release notes before the new version takes effect. By continuing to use Sonant after an update, you accept the updated terms.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Disputes that cannot be resolved amicably will be submitted to the competent court in the Netherlands. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose consumer protection laws cannot be waived by contract, your mandatory local rights continue to apply, including any right to bring a claim before the courts of your country of residence.
14. Severability
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect, and the provision concerned will be interpreted in the way that comes closest to its original intent within the limits of the law.
15. Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to contact@soluneal.com.
