These Terms & Conditions describe the terms on which Apara Limited provides the Guise website and macOS app. They cover use of the product, accounts, licenses, and purchases, together with the offer and purchase information shown to you before payment. Nothing here removes consumer rights or other protections that applicable law does not allow us to exclude.
About Guise
Guise is provided by Apara Limited. References to we, us, or our mean Apara Limited. For questions, support, purchase issues, or notices about these terms, email jayasurya@apara.design or use to copy that address.
Guise presents images, websites, and Figma prototypes in macOS windows and supports screenshot sessions, local review tools, and exports according to your plan. The current app is for compatible Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. Features also depend on your app version, operating-system permissions, and the external content you choose to open.
Eligibility and accounts
Guise has no fixed numeric age cutoff. You must nevertheless have the legal capacity or authorisation required to use the service and make a purchase in your location. A parent, guardian, or authorised organisation representative must be involved where the law requires it. The app is not designed specifically for young children. Sign-in and payment providers may apply their own eligibility rules.
If you act for an organisation, you must have authority to do so. Keep your sign-in details and devices secure, provide accurate account and checkout information, and tell us promptly about suspected unauthorised account access. Do not share account access to bypass another user’s license or the app’s limits.
Guise uses Apple or Google sign-in through Supabase. Paid access is associated with the authenticated Guise account, not simply with a local purchase-return screen. Use the account associated with your purchase when restoring access, and contact support before deleting it if you need help preserving purchase information.
Your license and plans
Subject to these terms and your applicable purchase, Apara Limited grants you a non-exclusive license to install and use Guise on compatible devices you own or control for personal work or your organisation’s internal work. You receive a license to use the software, not ownership of its code, design, or branding. This does not permit resale, rental, sublicensing, or redistribution of Guise as your own product.
Starter currently allows six successfully started presentations per calendar month, shared across images, websites, and Figma prototypes. The app keeps the monthly counter locally for the signed-in account. Opening a source/settings page alone does not spend a presentation use. This is a product allowance, not a promise of cross-device cloud synchronisation or a remote storage quota.
Complete removes the Starter presentation allowance and unlocks the paid screenshot editor and its included export tools. Features advertised for your purchase remain subject to the purchase description and applicable law. A one-time license is not a recurring subscription. It does not, by itself, promise indefinite online services, compatibility with every future macOS release, or access to separately offered products. Any update commitments expressly made in your purchase offer still apply.
Payments and refunds
Guise Complete is sold as a one-time purchase through Stripe-hosted checkout. Review the product, price, currency, and total before paying. The checkout total and purchase confirmation determine the amount charged; your bank or payment provider may separately apply currency-conversion or other charges. Apara Limited provides Guise; using Stripe to process payment does not by itself make Stripe the software seller.
No voluntary refunds are offered for a change of mind, non-use, or a feature preference. This applies only to the extent permitted by applicable law. It does not exclude a legally required refund, withdrawal or cancellation right, repair, replacement, price reduction, or another mandatory remedy for faulty, misdescribed, or undelivered digital content or services. jayasurya@apara.design if you believe a charge is incorrect or you are entitled to a remedy.
Downloading, opening, or using Guise does not, by this clause alone, waive a statutory cooling-off or withdrawal right. If the law requires an express request, consent, acknowledgement, or contract confirmation before digital supply can affect such a right, those requirements must be met separately. You do not give up a right merely because a checkout link returned you to the app.
Paid access is enabled after the backend confirms a qualifying completed payment and associates it with your account. Payment processing and entitlement updates may not be instantaneous. If payment succeeds but access does not activate, contact support with the purchase reference and account email; do not send full payment-card details. A refund, payment reversal, or charge dispute may cause paid access to be deactivated while payment status is resolved, subject to your legal rights. Deleting an account is not a refund request and does not create a new purchase on another account.
Responsible use
Use Guise lawfully and respect others’ privacy, confidentiality, intellectual property, and access restrictions. Obtain the permissions needed to open, capture, annotate, export, and share material. A shareable link or screenshot tool is not permission to disclose someone else’s confidential or personal information.
Do not use Guise to distribute malware, gain unauthorised access, interfere with services, commit fraud, or bypass payment, account, or presentation limits. Do not copy or modify protected app code, remove ownership notices, or reverse engineer the software except to the extent the law permits despite a contractual restriction. This does not restrict interoperability rights or other activities that cannot legally be restricted.
Guise is offered internationally, but access, sign-in, or purchases may be unavailable where law, sanctions, export restrictions, payment support, or third-party limitations prevent them. An international offering is not a guarantee that every transaction or service is available in every country.
Your content and local files
You retain your rights in source material, screenshots, annotations, and other work you use with Guise. These terms do not transfer ownership of your content to Apara Limited or give it a general right to publish your work. If you send material to support, you authorise its use as needed to address that request, subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Screenshots and session files are stored locally, normally under Pictures/My Guise Shots, with additional local indexes and caches. Your retention setting can move eligible older session folders to Trash. The default is 30 days, with 10 days or keep-until-deleted options. Exports, source files, copies, backups, and third-party website data are separate. Keep your own backups; Guise is not a cloud backup, encrypted vault, or secure-erasure service.
In-app ownership controls determine which Recents are displayed, but do not prevent someone using the same macOS account from finding files in Finder. Logging out or deleting a Guise account does not automatically delete screenshots saved on the Mac. Review content before sharing, particularly full-screen captures that may include other applications or sensitive information.
Permissions and privacy
Some features require macOS permissions: Screen Recording for screenshots, Input Monitoring for capture shortcuts and selection events during presentations, and Finder Automation for the requested column-view reveal. You can decline or revoke them, but related features may not work. Guise’s screenshot workflow does not create a continuous audio/video recording or use its shortcut listener to collect typed text.
The Privacy Policy explains local processing, account and payment services, external website/thumbnail requests, browsing data, update requests, and your choices. macOS permission grants and acceptance of these terms do not authorise unrelated use of personal information or replace a separate privacy consent where required by law.
External services
Websites, web applications, Figma prototypes, sign-in providers, payment services, and other external content have their own terms and privacy practices. Guise is independent and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Figma. Naming a service describes compatibility or an integration, not ownership of that service.
Preparing a preview can fetch metadata, thumbnails, linked resources, and a decorative fallback image before presenting. Sites may keep cookies or login state in Guise’s webviews. Availability, appearance, access requirements, and compatibility can change. Guise cannot grant access to content you are not authorised to use or guarantee that every site will display or capture correctly. This does not remove any responsibility applicable law places on Apara Limited for its own product or services.
Product ownership
Guise’s software, original interface, branding, and documentation belong to Apara Limited or the relevant rights holders. Third-party components and marks remain subject to their own licenses and rights. Your right to use Guise does not grant a right to use its name or branding in a way that implies endorsement.
If you voluntarily provide suggestions or feedback, we may use the ideas to improve Guise. That does not transfer ownership of your underlying designs or permit publication of confidential attachments or your identity without an appropriate basis or permission.
Updates and support
Guise checks the update feed for availability, including background checks while running. Its controls let you initiate a check, download an update, and restart to install it. Updates may change behavior or compatibility and can require a compatible operating system. Keep a copy of important work before updating.
We may improve the product and address security or compatibility issues. There is no promise of uninterrupted online service, a particular release schedule, or a guaranteed support-response time. Changes or discontinuation do not remove purchase commitments or statutory update, conformity, notice, or remedy obligations. jayasurya@apara.design for support.
Stopping use or closing an account
You can stop using Guise, uninstall it, or use account deletion. Deletion removes the authentication account and can remove its paid entitlement; it does not automatically transfer a purchase to a replacement account or erase local screenshots, payment records, or backups. support before deleting the account if a purchase or data request is unresolved.
We may restrict access where reasonably necessary to address a material breach, unlawful use, fraud, a serious security risk, or a payment reversal, subject to applicable law. Where appropriate and practicable, we will explain the reason and allow an opportunity to resolve it. Restriction is not a right to confiscate local content or avoid a required remedy. Provisions about ownership, lawful records, disputes, and responsibilities that logically continue after use ends remain applicable.
Product limits and warranties
Try Starter and check system requirements and feature descriptions before buying. Guise is a presentation/review tool, not a guarantee of design accuracy, accessibility compliance, secure redaction, or suitability for every website. Check exports and blurred or annotated sensitive material before distributing it.
Only to the extent applicable law permits, Guise is supplied as available without additional promises beyond the product description, purchase commitments, and these terms. This does not exclude statutory guarantees, a required standard of reasonable care, digital-content conformity rights, or other non-excludable warranties. Consumer protections prevail over an inconsistent disclaimer.
Responsibility and liability
You are responsible for authorised use of material you present or share and reasonable steps to protect your local files and account. Apara Limited remains responsible to the extent required by the law that applies to the product and your purchase.
Where the law allows a contractual exclusion, we do not accept liability for indirect or unforeseeable losses or, for business use, lost profits, revenue, or business opportunities. These exclusions do not apply where unlawful or unfair. They do not exclude fraud, deliberate misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury where legally protected, or other liability that cannot be excluded. No clause prevents a mandatory consumer remedy.
Disputes and mandatory rights
If you have a dispute, contact jayasurya@apara.design with the account or purchase reference and a description so we can try to resolve it. You do not have to give up a statutory complaint, regulator, court, or payment-dispute right to ask for support.
These terms do not designate an exclusive court, require arbitration, or waive a right to bring a claim. Applicable law determines jurisdiction and mandatory protections available in your place of residence or purchase. An unenforceable provision applies only to the extent lawful and does not remove the remaining provisions or your mandatory rights.
Changes and contact
We may revise these terms for product, service, or legal changes and identify the revision date on this page. Where law or your agreement requires notice or consent, publication alone is not a substitute. A later version does not retrospectively remove rights attached to an earlier purchase or override mandatory law.
For questions or notices, email jayasurya@apara.design or use on this page. The Privacy Policy separately explains how information in your request is handled.