Last updated 28 July 2026
These terms cover Yarnplayer, Yarnripper and Yarntranscribe. They explain what you may do with the Apps, what remains your responsibility and the limits of what the Apps can promise.
Current system requirements and supported formats are shown on the relevant download or store page. The Apps are not intended for children under 13.
By downloading, installing or using an App, you agree to these terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
For an App obtained through Apple's App Store, Apple's store terms and, unless a custom licence is supplied there, Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also apply. Mandatory platform terms and laws take priority where they cannot be varied by this agreement.
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Apps on devices you own or control, for personal use or your own internal business use. This is a licence to use the software, not a sale of it.
You may not sell, sublicense or redistribute an App, or make it available as a hosted service, unless we have agreed in writing. Restrictions in these terms do not prevent anything that applicable law or a third-party open-source licence expressly permits.
Your media, subscriptions, projects, metadata, artwork, bookmarks, transcripts and exported files remain yours. We do not claim ownership of them. As explained in the Privacy Policy, most of this material stays under your control and is not available to us.
When Yarnplayer generates a podcast transcript, it may automatically contribute an encrypted copy to the shared transcript cache. To the extent you have rights in that transcript, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to encrypt, store, copy and make it available through Yarnplayer to people who have exactly the same audio, and to operate, secure and moderate the cache. This does not transfer ownership or permit us to use the transcript for advertising. The licence ends when the shared copy is removed, except to the extent a temporary backup or legal record must be retained.
You are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed to import, download, copy, transcribe, convert, edit, share or distribute any content you use with an App. That includes audio files, podcast episodes, feeds, artwork, descriptions and material held on a Plex or Audiobookshelf server. The Apps do not give you any additional rights to third-party content.
Do not use an App to bypass digital rights management or another access control, or to infringe copyright, privacy, contractual or other legal rights.
Yarnripper and Yarntranscribe process files on your Mac and may create projects, managed downloads, temporary working files, converted audio, metadata, artwork, transcripts and finished exports. You choose the source material and output location.
Keep an independent copy of source files that matter to you. Make sure there is enough free storage, review an export before relying on it, and do not delete an original until you are satisfied with the result. You are also responsible for backing up Yarnplayer data you cannot afford to lose.
Speech recognition makes mistakes, especially with accents, crosstalk, music and unusual names. A transcript is a way to find and read parts of something, not an authoritative record of what was said.
For downloaded podcasts, Yarnplayer may retrieve a shared transcript made from exactly the same audio and language. If there is no match, Yarnplayer can generate one on your device and automatically contribute an encrypted copy to the shared cache. Podcast audio is not uploaded. The Privacy Policy explains what is removed, encrypted and stored.
A shared transcript may still be incomplete or inaccurate. You can mark it as inaccurate or bypass it and transcribe the episode locally. Deleting a local transcript does not delete the shared copy, so Yarnplayer may retrieve it again while the matching downloaded audio remains on your device.
Ad detection is a best guess. It may miss an ad or mark something that is not one. Release forecasts are estimates based on a show's previous publishing pattern; publishers can release early, late or stop altogether.
Do not rely on a transcript, detected segment or prediction where an error could cause harm. None is guaranteed to be complete or accurate.
The Apps can connect to services run by other people, including Apple, podcast publishers and hosts, Plex, Audiobookshelf, Audible, MusicBrainz, Google Books and Open Library. We do not control their content, availability, security, accuracy, terms or privacy practices.
A result returned by a metadata provider may be incomplete, incorrect or subject to separate rights. Review it before using it. Your dealings with a server, feed, website or service you choose to connect are also subject to that provider's terms.
Yarnripper includes third-party components such as ffmpeg, ffprobe and LAME. Those components remain subject to their own open-source licences and notices, which take priority over these terms for the component where required. Source and licence information supplied with a release form part of those notices.
Do not use an App to break the law, infringe someone else's rights, gain unauthorised access, interfere with a service, distribute malware, or place an unreasonable load on a feed or server. Do not remove ownership notices or attempt to derive an App's source code except where applicable law or an open-source licence permits it.
The Apps are currently offered free of charge. We will not charge you without clearly showing the price and asking you to agree. If an optional purchase is offered through the App Store, Apple handles the payment and its purchase and refund terms also apply.
We may update an App to add or remove features, fix faults, maintain security, meet legal requirements or stay compatible with operating systems and third-party services. We may also stop distributing an App or supporting an old version. We will give reasonable notice of a material adverse change where practicable, but cannot promise that every feature, format or connection will remain available forever.
An update may change the system requirements. You are responsible for deciding whether and when to install an update, except where the platform installs one automatically.
We may update these terms for changes to the Apps, the law or the services they use. The date at the top will change, and material changes will be noted on the website, in an App or in release notes. Changes apply from the stated date. If you do not accept a change, you may stop using and delete the Apps.
Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies a guarantee, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded, including rights you may have under the Australian Consumer Law. Where the law gives you a remedy, these terms do not take it away.
Subject to those non-excludable rights, the Apps are supplied as is and as available. We do not promise that an App will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will work forever with every file, feed, server, device, operating-system version or third-party service.
To the extent the law permits, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss caused by a third-party service, content you were not entitled to use, an unsupported modification, failure to keep a reasonable backup, or use of an App contrary to these terms.
This limitation does not apply where liability cannot lawfully be limited, and does not reduce any remedy available under a non-excludable consumer guarantee.
You may stop using an App at any time and may delete it from your devices. Your licence ends if you seriously or repeatedly breach these terms. Where a breach can be fixed, we will ordinarily give you a reasonable opportunity to fix it before ending the licence. Immediate termination may be appropriate for unlawful conduct, infringement, security abuse or conduct that risks harm to another person or service.
Ending the licence does not transfer or delete your own files. Sections that are intended to continue, including ownership, consumer rights, liability, governing law and general terms, continue after the licence ends.
Except for your content and separately licensed third-party components, the Apps, their code, design, names and artwork are owned by or licensed to us. No rights are granted except the limited licence set out above.
These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. Courts exercising jurisdiction in Victoria have non-exclusive jurisdiction over disputes relating to them. This does not prevent you relying on mandatory rights available where you live.
These terms, the Privacy Policy and any terms that must apply through the store or download channel form the agreement about your use of the Apps. If part of these terms is invalid or unenforceable, it is to be read down or removed only as far as necessary, and the rest continues. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.
Questions about these terms can go to Emmett Redding at support@yarnplayer.net.