effective november 9, 2026 · version 2026-11-10

end-user license agreement.

I’m Owen Van Vooren, an individual developer in Minnesota, United States. smush is my product name, not a separate company. This agreement covers your use of smush.

agreeing to the license

Read this agreement before checking “I agree to the License Agreement” and continuing in the app, or agreeing to it at checkout. If you do not agree, do not activate or use smush. You may close the app and uninstall it. The purchase terms explain refunds; the privacy policy explains information handling. You can save or print this agreement.

If you accepted an earlier revision, an app update does not record fresh acceptance or replace the terms you accepted. Changes are described in release notes and a notice in License settings. If a change requires your agreement or additional notice, I will provide that separately before applying it.

the trial and your paid license

I grant you a non-exclusive license to evaluate smush for 14 days from its first launch. The trial starts automatically and can run offline. To use cursor animations across apps, accept this agreement and grant the permission shown in onboarding. No account or payment card is needed. After acceptance, smush verifies eligibility when a connection is available and preserves the original deadline. Reinstalling or reconnecting does not grant a new trial. A trial found to have been claimed already may stop. If you need help with your trial, choose Get trial help in the License tab or use the trial help form.

After a valid purchase, I grant the purchaser and the friends or family members they share with a non-exclusive license to install and use smush on up to three Macs total across everyone sharing the license. Each person may use smush for personal use or their own work on Macs they own or control, and must agree to this EULA before using it. Sharing does not add activation slots. This is not a shared team or organization-wide license. The paid license has no subscription or scheduled expiry.

Your license covers the software supplied with the purchase and any updates I provide under that license. It does not promise separately priced future upgrades, indefinite support, or compatibility with every future macOS release. Updates needed to satisfy rights that applicable law gives you are not excluded.

private beta

If I invite you to a private beta, I grant you a non-exclusive license to use the labeled beta build on one of your Macs without a purchase while your invitation remains active. Keep your beta key private. A beta invitation does not include a paid license or a promise of access to a future public release. I may end the beta or revoke an invitation. Revocation can prevent future downloads and online activation; it cannot erase a receipt from a Mac that stays offline. Stop using the beta if your invitation ends.

activation and offline use

Use a paid license key with a public build that supports paid activation. Invited testers use their beta key with a labeled private beta. Sandbox purchases use test payments and issue keys for the sandbox build.

Internet access is needed to activate a Mac and manage devices. After activation, a signed receipt is checked locally, so normal use can continue offline. Share your license key only with friends or family you trust. Anyone with the key and an activated installation can see the purchaser’s name and active Mac names/models on the license, and remove activations. The License tab provides this shared device management; there is no separate purchaser-only role.

Activation slots identify app installations through protected local credentials. A separate macOS user profile or lost installation credentials can use another slot on the same physical Mac. Remove an old activation to free its slot. The recovery page retrieves a key using the purchase email. If you need help freeing a slot and cannot access any activated copy, contact me.

Removing a device frees its slot. It cannot erase a receipt from a Mac that stays offline. Everyone sharing the license must stop using a removed installation before its slot is used for a replacement; an offline receipt does not give the group permission to exceed three Macs total. A confirmed refund, reversed payment, or revoked activation may be detected when you next request account information and can remove the local activation. Merely losing your internet connection does not cancel a valid local receipt.

ownership and permitted use

I retain the rights to my software. smush is licensed, not sold. Apple and other third parties retain their rights in their own software, cursor artwork, and trademarks; smush is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

You may make backup copies for licensed use and privately share your key with friends or family as permitted above. You may not sell or publicly post your key, rent smush, sublicense it beyond the permitted sharing, distribute modified copies, or bypass its trial or activation limits. You may not reverse engineer it except where applicable law permits despite this restriction. Nothing here restricts rights granted by a third-party license or uses that the law does not let me prohibit.

compatibility and updates

smush uses private macOS APIs. A macOS update or another app can change cursor behavior or break compatibility. Try it on your own setup, keep backups, and pause or quit it if it interferes with your work. It is not designed for safety-critical use. This notice does not excuse a failure to meet an express promise or a legal obligation.

Update availability depends on the build. Where supported, you control automatic checking and installation in smush’s update settings. If I supply an update or a separately priced upgrade with different terms, those terms will be identified before you agree. They do not retroactively rewrite the license for an existing copy. Declining later terms does not by itself terminate the license already granted for an earlier copy.

consumer rights

Mandatory rights under the law that applies to you take priority over this agreement, including the warranty and liability limits below. Depending on that law, faulty or misdescribed digital content may entitle you to a correction, price reduction, refund, or damages, and required updates may have to be supplied. The voluntary 14-day refund policy does not replace those rights. For Australian consumers, this agreement does not exclude the consumer guarantees or remedies that apply under the Australian Consumer Law.

warranty limits

To the extent the law permits, I provide smush “as is” and “as available,” without additional implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. I do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. This does not disclaim an express promise I make to you or a warranty or remedy the law does not let me exclude.

liability limits

To the extent the law permits, my total liability for claims arising from smush or this agreement is limited to the amount you paid for the affected license, or US $4.99 if you only used the free trial. I am not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses, including lost profits or indirect loss of data.

These limits apply only where lawful. They do not reduce a refund I owe you, exclude fraud, intentional misconduct or gross negligence, exclude death or personal injury caused by negligence, or restrict any other liability, consumer guarantee, or remedy that cannot legally be limited. If a limit is unenforceable, the remaining lawful limits still apply.

ending the license

You may stop using smush at any time. The paid license ends after a full refund or final reversal of its payment. I may end it for a material breach that you do not fix within 14 days after I notify you, or immediately where reasonably necessary to stop fraud, unlawful key distribution, or ongoing security abuse. A temporary payment dispute may pause online activation and device management while it is reviewed; it does not by itself prove a breach or revoke an existing local activation.

When the license ends, stop using and remove your licensed copies, including offline copies. Technical continued access does not extend the license. Terms about ownership, lawful liability limits, and disputes survive termination. Your statutory rights survive too.

law, disputes, and contact

Minnesota law governs this agreement, without removing mandatory protections of the law where you live. You may bring a claim in any court that applicable law entitles you to use; I do not require arbitration or a waiver of class-action rights. Please contact me first if you want help resolving a problem, but doing so is not a condition of exercising your legal rights.

This agreement and the purchase terms identified when you purchase form the agreement between you and me about smush. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest remains effective where lawful. My failure to enforce a provision once does not waive it. Contact me at hi@trysmush.app.