Terms of use

1. The agreement

If you use Savory on behalf of an organization, you confirm you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" means both you and it.

The privacy policy explains what Savory does with information, and forms part of this agreement.

2. Who may use Savory

You must be at least 16 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Savory only with the involvement of a parent or guardian who accepts these terms on your behalf. You must be legally able to enter a contract, and you must not be barred from using the service under the laws that apply to you.

3. Your license to use Savory

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use Savory on devices you own or control, for your own use, subject to these terms and, where you obtained the app through the App Store, to Apple's terms.

The app, the website, the models we ship, our name, and our brand are ours or our licensors'. Nothing here transfers them to you. The bundled speaker separation models are redistributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, and their attribution ships inside the app.

4. Your account

Savory requires an account. You may create one with an email address and password, or sign in with Google or Apple. Give accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and tell us promptly at support@savory.ai if you believe someone else has access. You are responsible for activity under your account.

You may delete your account at any time from inside the app. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, that we are required to close by law, or that is being used in a way that endangers the service or other people. Where we can, we will tell you why.

5. Your content stays yours

Your transcripts, notes, summaries, action items, and the people records built from your meetings are yours. We claim no ownership of them and no license to use them, because the design makes that unnecessary: your content is stored on your device, and where it syncs it syncs through your own iCloud account rather than to us. We do not hold a copy, we do not read it, and we do not use it to train models. See the privacy policy for the narrow set of records our servers do hold.

When you ask for a summary, you instruct us to send that meeting's scrubbed transcript text to the AI provider described in the privacy policy, for the purpose of returning a summary to you. That is the only license you grant over your content, it lasts only as long as the request, and it exists only for the meetings you choose.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, you allow us to use them to improve Savory without obligation to you.

6. Recording responsibly

This is the most important obligation in these terms.

Recording laws vary by jurisdiction and by context. Some places require the consent of every participant, some require only yours, and some settings, such as schools, healthcare, and regulated industries, carry additional rules. You are solely responsible for knowing and meeting the requirements that apply where you record, including telling participants when the law requires it and obtaining consent where the law requires it.

Savory gives you tools to act deliberately: a consent gate that runs before capture begins, per-person rules that prevent capture entirely, and an audit log of the decisions applied. Those tools are not legal advice and do not establish that any particular recording is lawful. You agree not to use Savory to capture anyone unlawfully, to record where you have been asked not to, or to process content you have no right to process.

7. Acceptable use

Do not: break the law with Savory or help anyone else do so; interfere with the service or its rate limits; attempt to access another person's account or data; probe, scan, or overload our systems; use the summary service through anything other than the Savory apps, or resell it; misrepresent your subscription state to obtain paid features; or copy, modify, decompile, or reverse engineer the app, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law that applies to you.

8. Savory Pro, billing, and trials

Recording, on-device transcription, notes, calendar, people, and search are free. Savory Pro adds AI summaries and extracted action items. Current plans and prices are on the pricing page. The price is the same whichever way you buy.

Savory Pro is sold two ways, and which one you use depends on where you buy it. The App Store versions of Savory, for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, are billed by Apple. The version you download from savory.ai is billed through Stripe. Whichever way you buy, the subscription belongs to your Savory account: it unlocks Savory Pro in every version of Savory you sign in to with that account. Each subscription stays with the merchant that sold it, which bills, renews, cancels, and refunds it, and we never move a subscription from one merchant to the other. If you subscribe both ways, you hold two subscriptions and are billed for both until you cancel one with its own merchant; the app tells you when that is the case. An App Store subscription belongs to the Savory account you were signed in to when you bought it. On a device signed in to the Apple Account that bought it, Apple also unlocks it, as Apple's own rules provide.

Buying through the App Store

If you subscribe through the App Store, Apple is the merchant: Apple charges you, holds your payment details, manages the free trial, applies its own taxes, and renews the subscription automatically at the then-current price until you cancel. Cancel or change a plan in your Apple Account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends, and any unused part of a trial is forfeited when a paid subscription begins. Apple's free first month, where Apple offers one, is given only to a Savory account that has never had Savory Pro: an account that has had the free trial in the version downloaded from savory.ai, a complimentary period, or a Savory Pro subscription bought either way subscribes in the App Store versions without it, and is charged from the start. Apple also gives its free month only once per Apple Account. Refunds are decided by Apple under Apple's policies, so a refund request goes to Apple, not to us, and we do not offer refunds of App Store purchases beyond what Apple grants. We will help where we can. Deleting your Savory account does not cancel an App Store subscription: Apple keeps renewing it until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings, so cancel first if you do not want to be charged again. The app says so before you confirm a deletion.

Buying in the version downloaded from savory.ai

If you subscribe in the version downloaded from savory.ai, the sale is made through Stripe Managed Payments. Stripe is the merchant of record: the purchase is shown to you as Sold through Link, your card or bank statement reads LINK.COM* SAVORY, and Stripe calculates, collects, and remits any sales tax, VAT, or GST that applies where you live. Stripe's payment page opens in your web browser when you start a subscription from inside the app, and the price may be shown there in your local currency. We never see or hold your card details.

Trial. Each Savory account is eligible for one 30-day trial of Savory Pro in the version downloaded from savory.ai. It starts the first time you sign in to the app; no payment method is needed to start it, and you are not charged during it. To keep Savory Pro after the trial, add a payment method before it ends: the plan you choose begins at once, and the first charge is made on the trial's end date. If you add a payment method in the last two days of the trial, the first charge falls two days after you add it, which is Stripe's minimum. If you add no payment method, the trial simply ends and Savory returns to the free plan: nothing is charged and there is nothing to cancel. We email you about the trial at the address on your account: 15 days before it ends, 5 days before, on the last day, and once more the day after it ends if you have not subscribed. If product-update email is on for your account, we may also send one email about Savory Pro five days after the trial ends, with an unsubscribe link. Once a payment method is added, Stripe also sends a reminder before that charge, from Link. The trial belongs to your Savory account, so while it runs Savory Pro is also on in the App Store versions when you sign in there with that account. Subscribing in an App Store version while the trial runs starts that paid subscription at once, without a free period. An account that has already held a Savory Pro subscription, bought either way, or a trial, in any state, is not offered another trial.

Automatic renewal. Savory Pro is a recurring subscription. The monthly plan renews every month and the annual plan renews every year, at the price shown when you subscribed, charged to the payment method on file, until you cancel. If we change the price of a plan you hold, we will tell you by email at the address on your account before the change applies to you, and you can cancel before it does.

Cancelling. Cancel at any time from Settings, then Savory Pro, then Manage subscription in the version downloaded from savory.ai, which opens your billing portal, or from your Link account at link.com in any browser. The App Store versions show that this subscription is billed through savory.ai, but cannot manage it. Cancelling stops the next renewal. Savory Pro stays on until the end of the period you have already paid for, and you are not charged again. Deleting your Savory account is different: it ends the subscription immediately, without a refund of the remaining period, because nobody can use it after the account is gone. If you delete your account during the trial, the trial ends and you are not charged. The app says so before you confirm a deletion. Deleting the app from your Mac cancels nothing; cancel the subscription first.

Refunds. We do not offer refunds beyond what the law and the merchant of record require. Refund requests for a purchase sold through Link go to Link support, which you can reach from your email receipt or from link.com. Stripe can issue a refund within 60 days of a transaction in certain cases, and a refund includes any tax you paid. If you are a consumer in the EEA or the United Kingdom, your right of withdrawal below is not affected. A refund does not by itself cancel the subscription, so cancel as well if you do not want it to renew. If something went wrong with a purchase, write to support@savory.ai and tell us what happened.

Your right of withdrawal if you are a consumer in the EEA or the United Kingdom. You have the right to withdraw from a contract for a digital service within 14 days without giving a reason. Savory Pro is a service that begins as soon as you subscribe, and by starting a subscription you ask for it to begin at once, during the withdrawal period. If you withdraw within those 14 days, you owe a proportionate amount for the part of the period already provided and are refunded the rest. Because a trial is free, withdrawing during a trial means simply letting it end, or cancelling if you have already added a payment method. To withdraw, cancel as described above, or contact Link support or support@savory.ai with a clear statement that you withdraw.

Receipts and billing email. Stripe sends receipts, invoices, trial notices, and any refund confirmation to the email address you gave at checkout, from Link. Savory itself sends no receipts and no invoices; the only billing-related emails it sends are notices that a trial or a complimentary period is ending or has ended, to the address on your account. Your invoice history is available in the billing portal and in your Link account.

A daily allowance. Savory Pro includes a daily allowance of summary generation, set to cover a normal day of meetings. If you reach it, summaries pause until the next day and nothing else in the app is affected. We may adjust the allowance.

Changes to plans

We may change plans, prices, and what each plan includes. A change that affects a subscription you already hold takes effect at the next renewal after we notify you: through Apple, in the way its rules require, for App Store subscriptions; by email to the address on your account for subscriptions sold through Stripe.

9. Third-party services

Savory connects to services you choose: Google or Apple for sign-in, Google Calendar and Apple Calendar for events, iCloud for sync, the App Store or Stripe for purchases, and an AI provider for summaries. Your use of those services is governed by their terms, not ours, and we are not responsible for them. Removing a connection in Savory removes our access, and it does not delete anything the provider holds under its own agreement with you.

10. Early access and changes to the service

Savory is offered in early access. Features may change, move, or be withdrawn, and versions may be released, updated, or retired as the product develops. We may modify or discontinue the service, or any part of it, and if we discontinue something material we will give notice through the app, this site, or the email address on your account.

11. Backups are yours to keep

Because your content lives on your device rather than on our servers, we cannot restore what you lose. Device failure, an operating system reinstall, or a deletion you confirm are all outside our reach. Export what you would not want to lose. Notes and transcripts export to plain files at any time, and the app's own export is the supported way to make a copy.

12. Disclaimers

Savory is provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free.

Transcription and summarization are automated and imperfect. Transcripts can misrender words, and a summary can omit, compress, or state something the meeting did not. Do not rely on Savory's output as a record of legal, medical, financial, or employment significance without checking it. Decisions you make from that output are yours.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here limits rights you have under consumer protection law that cannot be waived.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor anyone involved in creating or delivering Savory will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, or business interruption, arising from or relating to Savory, whether the claim is in contract, tort, or any other theory, and even if we were told such damages were possible.

Our total liability for all claims relating to Savory is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or 100 US dollars.

These limits apply to the fullest extent permitted by law and do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

14. Your indemnity

You will defend and indemnify us against claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your use of Savory in breach of these terms or of applicable law, including any claim brought by a person you recorded.

15. Ending this agreement

You may stop using Savory and delete your account at any time. We may terminate or suspend your access for a material breach of these terms, or if we stop offering the service. On termination, your license ends and you should delete the app. Sections that by their nature should survive do survive, including content ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and governing law.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You and we agree that the state and federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from these terms or from Savory, and we each consent to that jurisdiction and venue.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before filing, please write to support@savory.ai and describe the problem. Most disputes are resolved faster that way, and we will answer.

17. Notice regarding Apple

If you obtained Savory from the App Store, this section applies and prevails over anything inconsistent with it.

• This agreement is between you and us, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for Savory or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for Savory.
• If Savory fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to Savory, including product liability, failure to conform to a legal requirement, and consumer protection or privacy claims.
• If a third party claims Savory infringes its intellectual property, Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, or discharge of that claim.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and are not on any US Government prohibited-party list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement and may enforce it against you.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the product develops. We will change the version and effective date above and describe the change in the version history below. If a change is material and you keep using Savory after it takes effect, the updated terms apply to you.

• Version 1.7, October 11, 2026. The published Savory terms of use, covering the apps, this website, and Savory accounts. This version adds two emails about the trial in the version downloaded from savory.ai: one the day after the trial ends if you have not subscribed, and, where product-update email is on for your account, one about Savory Pro five days after it ends, with an unsubscribe link. It also restates the billing-related emails Savory itself sends: notices that a trial or a complimentary period is ending or has ended. Version 1.6 before it made a Savory Pro subscription follow your Savory account: one bought in either version unlocks Savory Pro in every version you sign in to with that account, each subscription stays billed, renewed, cancelled, and refunded by the merchant that sold it, and Apple's free first month is given only to an account that has never had Savory Pro. It names the App Store versions for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, says where each subscription is managed, and publishes changes to these terms on this page, with the version history below, instead of announcing them in the app. It also carries the terms for Savory Pro sold through Stripe in the version downloaded from savory.ai (the trial, automatic renewal, cancellation, and the right of withdrawal), states the refund position for both channels (no refunds beyond what the law and the merchant of record require), states what deleting a Savory account does to a subscription on each channel (the Stripe subscription ends at once and a trial ends unbilled; an App Store subscription is not cancelled and keeps renewing until you cancel it with Apple), and restates the trial in the version downloaded from savory.ai: no payment method is needed to start it, it starts the first time you sign in, and Savory emails you about it 15 days before it ends, 5 days before, and on the last day. It also describes changes to these terms here, in the version history, instead of in the changelog.

19. General

These terms and the privacy policy are the entire agreement between us about Savory. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stands and the provision is narrowed to the minimum extent needed. Our failure to enforce a term is not a waiver of it. You may not assign this agreement; we may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business, on notice to you. Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control. We will send notices to the email address on your account, and you should send notices to the address below.