Deckle
Terms of Use
Effective 6 October 2026. License to use the Deckle macOS app.
The product
Deckle is a macOS application that speaks text on the computer you already have. You can paste text, read a screenshot or a screen region, play and transcribe a dropped audio file, or listen to a page you choose, then save audio. It is not an account, not a subscription, and not a cloud reader.
License
Deckle is sold as a one-time purchase of $19 (USD) for product app.deckle.mac.lifetime. On the direct edition, a 14-day trial on that Mac runs first. Buy $19 stays visible. When the trial ends, speech, screenshot and region reading, link fetch, and saving audio stay locked until a valid license key is entered. The key is checked on the Mac. Pressing Buy does not mark the app as purchased.
The App Store edition is a separate sandboxed app. It stays locked until Apple reports that purchase or a restore.
Your text and pages
You are responsible for the right to read and copy the text, screenshots, audio files, and pages you bring into Deckle. Deckle does not claim that content. Fetching a link needs the network. Speech and screenshots do not.
If a site shows a browser check, you finish it yourself. Deckle does not solve, click, or forward that check to a solving service.
No warranty
Deckle is provided as-is. Recognition and voices can miss words. To the extent permitted by law, Lance Coleman is not liable for lost text or incidental damages.