Terms of Service

01Who you are dealing with

ShipLocal is made and sold by Flowstate Industries LLC, a United States limited liability company, reachable at support@flowstateindustries.com. "We" and "us" below mean that company; "you" means whoever is using the app.

Downloading or buying ShipLocal means you accept these terms.

02Your licence

You get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use ShipLocal on Macs you own or control, for your own apps or the apps of whoever you work for. There is no limit on how many App Store listings you translate or how many apps you publish with it.

You may not resell or redistribute the app, share a licence key with anyone outside your own Macs, or attempt to work around the licensing - except where the law gives you a right that a contract cannot remove.

03The two channels

ShipLocal is sold on the Mac App Store and as a direct download, at the same price. A purchase does not transfer between them.

• —Mac App Store. Apple is the seller. That copy is also governed by Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement, and for that copy, where Apple’s terms and these terms conflict, Apple’s terms control.
• —Direct. A notarized disk image, unlocked with a licence key for up to 3 Macs, sold through Polar as merchant of record. That build updates itself; the App Store build is updated by Apple.

04The subscription

Free is not a trial and does not expire: every app your key can see, all 50 App Store languages, one language at a time. Pro adds two things - the push back to App Store Connect, and running up to 10 languages at once. There is no free trial of any kind, and no Family Sharing.

Pro is $39.99 a year on both channels - one plan, billed yearly, with no monthly option. On the Mac App Store it is billed by Apple to your Apple Account and managed in System Settings. Bought direct, it is a license key for up to 3 Macs, sold through Polar as merchant of record: not an App Store purchase, so it is not managed in System Settings and it does not unlock the App Store build.

A Mac App Store subscription renews yearly until cancelled, and payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation; manage or cancel it in System Settings at any time. A direct license renews yearly through Polar until cancelled in the customer portal. Either way, Pro runs to the end of the year you have already paid for.

05Your keys, and what gets published

ShipLocal acts on your App Store Connect account with a key you supply, and spends money with an AI provider under a key you supply. Keeping both safe is yours to do, as is whatever is done with them by anyone you give access to your Mac.

The app shows you every field before it writes anything, and nothing reaches App Store Connect until you press push. It creates localizations that are missing and updates ones that already exist; it never issues a delete. What ends up on your listing is what you approved, and you are responsible for it.

06Machine translation

Translation is done by a third-party model, and models get things wrong. ShipLocal keeps every field inside Apple’s limits, holds brand names and URLs out of the translation, and tells you where it had to shorten something - but it does not guarantee that a translation is accurate, idiomatic, or right for a market.

That is what the review step is for. Read the fields before you push them.

07What your provider charges

AI translation is billed separately by your provider. ShipLocal shows you the estimated cost before anything is sent, and the exact token count and cost after. The subscription does not include translation credits.

The estimate is a heuristic, not a quote. What you owe your provider is whatever they bill you.

08Third parties

ShipLocal depends on Apple, on Anthropic or OpenAI, on Polar for direct purchases, and on GitHub for direct updates. Their terms apply to your use of them, and their pricing, availability and policies are theirs to change. If one of them stops offering something ShipLocal relies on, the app may lose that capability.

09Changes to the app

ShipLocal changes between releases. Anything described on the roadmap is an intention and not a commitment, and it can be dropped or reordered. The changelog is the record of what actually shipped.

10No warranty, and what we are liable for

ShipLocal is provided as it is. To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, including that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will fit a particular purpose.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for anything connected with ShipLocal is limited to what you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost sales or lost rankings.

Nothing here limits anything that cannot be limited by law, including your statutory rights as a consumer.

11Ending it

You can stop using ShipLocal at any time, and cancel as described above. If you break these terms, the licence ends. Deleting the app removes it and its stored history from your Mac.

ShipLocal is made and sold by Flowstate Industries LLC. The studio’s policy covers everything it sells and applies to ShipLocal in addition to this page — where this one is silent, that one governs.

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