These terms cover your use of Sonant, the macOS app you get from sonant.soluneal.com or through Setapp, and the website itself. They exist because we have to have them. We've kept them short, honest, and in language a human can read.
1. Who you're dealing with
Sonant is made by Penumbreal, a one-person software business (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 Penumbreal publishes its macOS apps under. For the purposes of these terms, "we", "us", "Soluneal", and "Penumbreal" all mean that same business. Our email is [email protected], a real person answers.
Your purchase is processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the Merchant of Record. That means Lemon Squeezy (not us) is your contracting counterparty for the payment itself. They handle VAT, sales tax, invoicing, chargebacks, and refunds. We remain the licensor of the software and the party you contact for support, license activation issues, and anything to do with the app itself.
Order confirmations and your license key arrive by email from Lemon Squeezy on our behalf. Product-update emails are separate and only sent if you opted in at checkout or subscribed later; every one has an unsubscribe link, and opting out changes nothing about your license. The Privacy page has the details.
If you get Sonant through Setapp, the seller of that copy is MacPaw Way Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus), which acts as the merchant of record. Setapp handles the payment, the invoice, taxes, and refunds under its own terms of use and refund policy. We remain the licensor of the software and the party to contact about the app itself. A Setapp copy has no license key: it is tied to your Setapp account, and buying it does not put you on our product-update list. Where a Setapp copy works differently from a direct purchase, the sections below say so.
2. What you're buying
You're buying a perpetual, non-exclusive license to run the Sonant macOS application on your own computers. One purchase unlocks:
- Up to 5 activations on devices you personally own or use (Mac desktops and laptops).
- All future updates released under the current major version (1.x).
- Unlimited license duration: the license does not expire.
A copy bought through Setapp comes with the same license. Instead of activations, it runs on the Macs signed in to your Setapp account, within the device limit Setapp sets for it, and Setapp lets you reinstall it as often as you like.
You do not receive the source code. You do not own the software; you own a license to use it.
3. The 7-day free trial
You can use Sonant free for seven days on each device before buying. No credit card is required to start the trial. At the end of the trial period, the app will prompt you for a license key. The trial is provided "as is" with no guarantee of continued availability. The copy sold through Setapp follows Setapp's own trial rules, if Setapp offers a trial for it at all.
4. Pricing, payments, and taxes
The price listed at the point of purchase is the price you pay. Local sales tax, VAT, or GST (where applicable) is added automatically by Lemon Squeezy according to your jurisdiction and is shown at checkout. All prices are in US Dollars unless the checkout displays otherwise. For a Setapp copy, the price and any tax are shown at Setapp's checkout and charged by Setapp.
5. Refunds
We want you to be happy. If Sonant doesn't work for you within the first 14 days of purchase, email [email protected] with your order number and we'll authorize a full refund, no interrogation, no justification required.
Because Lemon Squeezy is the Merchant of Record, refunds are processed through them. You can also reach Lemon Squeezy directly at [email protected] and they'll handle it per their standard refund policy.
For a copy bought through Setapp, refunds are handled by Setapp under its refund policy; contact [email protected]. If you write to us instead, we'll point you there and support your request from our side.
After 14 days, refunds are at our discretion but we are generally reasonable about defects, upgrade-breakages, and situations that are clearly our fault.
Right of withdrawal (EU and UK customers). Sonant is digital content delivered right away. Lemon Squeezy's buyer terms say 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 own promise above still stands: if you ask within 14 days of purchase, we will authorize a full refund. Purchases through Setapp follow Setapp's terms.
6. What you can and can't do with Sonant
You may:
- Install and run Sonant on any Mac you personally own or use, up to the activation limit.
- Use it for personal or commercial purposes (listening to music at work counts).
- Deactivate a device to free up an activation slot. Email us and we'll help if the app can't do it for you.
You may not:
- Share your license key with other people or publish it anywhere.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app, except to the extent that local law specifically permits it (e.g. interoperability under EU Directive 2009/24/EC).
- Resell, relicense, rent, lease, or sublicense the software.
- Strip out or modify the license check mechanisms.
- Use the software to harm others, violate their privacy, or break any law.
7. Updates
We ship updates when they're ready. Minor updates (bug fixes, small improvements, new features within 1.x) are included with your purchase. A future major version (2.0) may be a paid upgrade, but existing 1.x users will always get a fair upgrade path and will never lose access to their current version. A Setapp copy gets the same updates, delivered through Setapp instead of Sonant's own update mechanism.
8. Third-party services
Sonant integrates with a handful of external services. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them. Use of those services is governed by their own terms.
- Apple Music and Spotify: Sonant reads the current track and sends playback commands through the players' own AppleScript interfaces. 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 fetches synced lyrics from lrclib.net, sending the current track's title, artist, and album. Privacy details are on the Privacy page.
- Sparkle + Apple notarization (direct downloads): update checks fetch a signed appcast from our own server; Apple validates each build's notarization ticket when it lands.
- Setapp: the copy sold through Setapp contains the Setapp framework, which signs you in with your Setapp account, checks that your purchase is valid, and reports that the app is in use so Setapp can settle our share. Setapp's terms of use and privacy notice apply to it. The direct download from our site contains none of this.
If any of these services change their APIs in ways that break Sonant's integration, we'll fix it as quickly as we reasonably can, but we can't guarantee uptime for something we don't control.
9. Ownership
We own Sonant. The source code, icon, branding, design, name, and website content are the property of Penumbreal and protected under international copyright and trademark law. Your license under these terms does not transfer any of that ownership to you.
10. Warranty and liability
Sonant is provided "as is". We've tested it carefully and use it ourselves every day, but we can't promise it will be bug-free, compatible with every future version of macOS, or suitable for every use case. To the fullest extent allowed by law, we disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Our total liability to you for anything arising out of these terms or your use of Sonant is capped at 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, lost data, or lost listening streaks, even if we were warned they were possible.
None of this limits rights that cannot lawfully be waived under consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction.
11. Termination
You can stop using Sonant at any time. Your license continues to be valid as long as you follow these terms. If you materially breach them (for example, redistributing cracked keys), we can terminate the license and deactivate the associated key. In that case, you agree to stop using the app.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time to reflect new features, new services, or changes in law. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page will always reflect the current version. For material changes that affect your rights, we'll post a notice on this page and in Sonant's release notes before the new version takes effect. Continuing to use Sonant after an update means 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 by friendly email will be brought before 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 contractually waived, your mandatory local rights continue to apply regardless of this clause, including any right to bring a claim before the courts of your own country of residence.
14. Severability
If any part of these terms is found unenforceable by a court, the rest keeps working. We'll interpret the invalid clause in the way that comes closest to its original intent within the bounds of the law.
15. Contact
Questions, complaints, ideas, or gentle disagreements about anything on this page, email [email protected]. We read every message.
