Licence and terms of sale.
The rules for buying and using Toolnotch, in plain words. By buying or using Toolnotch, you agree to them.
Last updated: 14 October 2026
1. Who we are
Toolnotch (the app) and toolnotch.app are published by Johann Desobry, an individual entrepreneur in France (“we”); the legal notice has the details. “You” means the person who buys or uses Toolnotch.
2. Buying Toolnotch
- The seller is Polar. Polar Software Inc. (“Polar”) sells Toolnotch as merchant of record: it takes the payment, issues the invoice, and collects and pays sales tax and VAT. Polar’s own terms apply to the payment.
- Prices are in US dollars. The price shown at checkout, with the taxes Polar calculates for your country, is the price you pay. Your bank may charge a currency conversion fee.
- Launch price. The first 10 buyers pay $4.99 and the next 100 pay $9.99. After that, Toolnotch is $19.99. Whoever paid what, the licence is the same.
- Delivery. The app downloads as soon as you have paid, and your licence key is emailed to you. Your key and invoices are also in Polar’s customer portal.
- Refunds. 14 days, no questions asked. See the refund policy.
3. Your licence
When you buy Toolnotch, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to:
- install and use Toolnotch on up to 3 Macs that you own or use, at the same time;
- use it for your personal and professional work.
The licence is for one person. It does not expire: it lasts as long as you keep these terms. It covers Toolnotch as it grows: every update, and every new tool we add to Toolnotch, at no extra cost.
4. Activation and the licence check
Toolnotch activates your key online, on each Mac, and checks it with Polar about once a week in the background. It keeps working offline for up to 30 days between checks, then asks you to reconnect. To move the licence to another Mac, remove it from the old one in Settings, or deactivate that Mac in Polar’s customer portal. The privacy policy lists what the check sends.
5. What you may not do
- sell, rent, lend, sublicense or give away your licence key, or use it on more than 3 Macs at a time;
- share your key publicly or with other people;
- copy, decompile or reverse engineer Toolnotch, except where the law allows it despite this clause (for example to make it work with other software);
- bypass or disable the licence check, or remove copyright and licence notices.
6. Updates
Toolnotch installs updates automatically by default, at a quiet moment. You can turn automatic updates off in Settings. Updates can add, change or improve features. We do our best to keep Toolnotch working with new versions of macOS, but we cannot guarantee it for every future version.
7. Third-party software
Toolnotch includes open-source components under their own licences, such as Sparkle (MIT licence) for updates and libwebp (BSD licence) for WebP images. Their notices are in the app’s About window.
8. Guarantees
We build Toolnotch with care, but software has bugs: beyond what the law requires, Toolnotch is provided “as is”, without other guarantees.
If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms limits your legal rights. In the European Union, this includes the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content (EU Directive 2019/770, and in France articles L. 224-25-12 and following of the Consumer Code): if Toolnotch does not work as described, you can ask us to fix it, and if we cannot, for a price reduction or a refund.
9. Liability
Our total liability to you is limited to the price you paid for Toolnotch. We are not liable for indirect losses, such as lost data, profit or business. These limits do not apply to death or personal injury caused by our negligence, to fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or where the law does not allow them.
10. End of the licence
You can stop using Toolnotch at any time. If you are refunded, or if you seriously break these terms, the licence ends and the key is deactivated. Sections 8 and 9 survive.
11. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example when Toolnotch gains a tool. The version in force on the day you bought applies to your purchase; changes that would reduce what your licence includes never apply to licences already sold.
12. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by French law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you can bring a claim in its courts. If something goes wrong, write to support@toolnotch.app first: most problems are solved by email.