Terms of service

1. License

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use Pear on Macs you own or personally use, for as long as you comply with these terms.

A Pear 3 license does not expire and includes every update within version 3.x that we publish. A future major version would be a separate purchase, at a discount for existing owners; your Pear 3 license continues to work either way.

Your license is a signed file tied to your email address. It is not for sharing, publishing or resale.

2. Free trial

Pear runs with every feature for fourteen days from first launch, without payment or an account. When the trial ends the tools stop working until a license is entered. Content you created — notes, shelf items, saved screenshots — remains accessible and exportable.

3. Restrictions

You may not:

• share, sell, sublicense or publish your license file or key;
• remove, disable or circumvent the licensing, or distribute tools that do;
• redistribute Pear as your own product or as part of another product;
• use Pear unlawfully, or to capture material you have no right to capture.

Nothing here removes a right you hold by law to inspect or decompile software.

4. Payment and tax

Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders and handles all customer-service enquiries relating to payment, including tax. Prices are in US dollars and exclude tax, which is calculated at checkout where it applies.

Refunds are covered by the refund policy.

5. File deletion

Some tools in Pear remove files: clearing caches, reclaiming disk space, or deleting items you select. You are responsible for reviewing what you ask Pear to delete. Where possible, deletions go to the Trash and are shown to you before they happen. Keep backups: we are not liable for data you instructed the software to remove.

6. The pear command-line tool

pear is a separate program licensed under the GPL-3.0. It is free, open source, and installed by you. The app does not include it, does not require it and no longer calls it. It is not part of the product sold here and is not covered by these terms.

7. Third-party components

Pear includes components under their own licenses, including the Sparkle update framework, the BEN2 background-removal model (MIT, © Prama LLC), and the Space Grotesk and Fraunces typefaces (SIL Open Font License). Their notices are included in the app.

8. Warranty

Pear is provided as is. We test it and we intend it to be reliable, but we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that it will suit a particular purpose.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability arising from or relating to Pear is limited to the amount you paid for it. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost data, lost profits or business interruption.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including your statutory rights as a consumer.

10. Termination

You may stop using Pear at any time by deleting the app and your license file. We may terminate a license obtained fraudulently, charged back, or used in breach of section 3. A license terminated despite being bought in good faith will be refunded.

11. Changes

These terms may change for future versions of Pear. The terms in force when you bought your license continue to apply to that license.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Thailand, whose courts have jurisdiction. This does not affect consumer-protection rights you hold where you live.

13. Contact

Pear is operated by Phanthawas Jirakiattikun, Bangkok, Thailand.
[email protected]