Terms
Acoustic Orbit is a macOS app made and sold by Snehasis Gouda, an individual developer in India, trading as Acoustic Orbit ("we"). Using the app or buying a licence means you accept these terms.
What the app is
Acoustic Orbit plays the speakers you already own, wired, USB and Bluetooth, a Raspberry Pi over HDMI, an Android phone, as one array from your Mac: it times them with a microphone, turns stereo into surround, passes discrete mixes such as Atmos to the speakers wearing those roles, and keeps wired and USB paths lossless. What it can and cannot do is stated on the page; those statements are part of these terms. It needs an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 15 or later with a microphone. iPhone and HomePod are not supported.
Free use
Two devices are free, for as long as you like, on any number of Macs. No key, no account, no time limit.
The licence
- Pay once. No subscription. A licence key unlocks every device on one Mac at a time, for version 1 of the app and every update to version 1. A future version 2 may be a paid upgrade; founding buyers get it at a discount.
- One Mac at a time. You may move a key to another Mac you use: deactivate it in the app on the old Mac (or write to us) and activate it on the new one.
- Yours, not for resale. A key is personal to the buyer. Do not sell, share or publish it. We disable a key that is shared, resold, refunded, or paid for with a payment that was later reversed.
- Founding price. The first 100 licences are sold at the founding price shown on the page; after that the regular price applies. Prices are shown at checkout in your currency, taxes included where they apply.
Who you buy from. Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Depending on where you are, the seller on your receipt is Paddle.com Market Limited (London), Paddle.com Inc. (New York) or Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd. (Toronto). Their buyer terms apply to the purchase itself; the software is licensed to you by us under these terms.
Pre-orders
Until the download is public, a licence is a pre-order: you pay now, your key appears on the page right after payment (keep it; if you lose it, write to us with your receipt and it comes by return), and the app follows when it ships. A key is refundable in full at any time before you activate it, and for 14 days after, no questions asked. See the refund policy.
Updates and the licence check
The app checks acousticorbit.com for updates and, once a key is activated, confirms it about once a week when online with the licence service named in the privacy notice, which also lists exactly what is sent. A dropped connection never locks you out; only an answer that the key was refunded, reversed or disabled does.
Third-party software
The system-audio tap the app installs is a modified version of BlackHole, © 2019 Existential Audio Inc., used under the GNU General Public License, version 3. Its complete source is published at github.com/snehasisgouda/acousticorbit-tap; the licence and notice also ship inside the app next to the driver. The app itself is a separate work and is not open source.
What we promise, and what we cannot
We promise what the page says, measured in a real room, and we promise the refund policy below. Beyond that the app is provided as it is: rooms, speakers and Bluetooth radios differ, and we cannot promise a particular result in yours. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability for any claim is the price you paid. Nothing here limits rights that consumer law gives you and that cannot be waived.
Changes
If these terms change, the date at the top changes, and a change that narrows your rights does not apply to licences bought before it.
Law and contact
These terms are governed by the laws of India. Write to hello@acousticorbit.com first; most things are sorted in a mail or two. Questions about the payment itself can also go to Paddle at help@paddle.com.