Terms of service

Last Updated: October 21, 2026

Effective Date: May 19, 2026

Thank you for using our apps! These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the apps made by hypernuclear (“we,” “us,” or “our”) — hypershot, hyperbin and hyperwave (together, “our apps”) — and our website at hypernuclear.com. By using any of them, you agree to these Terms.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By downloading, installing, or using our apps or website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. hypershot is also licensed to you under its End User License Agreement (EULA), and hyperbin and hyperwave under the MIT License. If you do not agree to all of these terms, do not use our apps or website.

2. Description of Service

hypershot is a desktop application for macOS and Windows that provides:

Screenshot capture (area, window, and full screen)
Screen recording with auto-zoom and cursor tracking
Annotation tools (arrows, shapes, text, highlights, redaction, and more)
Background and frame effects for exports
OCR-powered text recognition
Webcam overlay during recording

hyperbin is a free app for macOS and Windows that puts an animation over your Trash or Recycle Bin, growing as the bin fills up.

hyperwave is a free app for macOS and Windows that shows your system audio as a visualizer in the menu bar or notch.

hyperbin and hyperwave are open source, released under the MIT License. The MIT License governs your use of their source code and builds. These Terms govern the services they connect to: update checks, usage analytics, the newsletter sign-up and the list of our other products.

3. Accounts and Licenses

hyperbin and hyperwave are free and need no account or license. This section covers hypershot.

3.1 Free Trial

hypershot offers a 7-day free trial with full access to all features. No credit card is required to start the trial. The trial begins when you first launch the application.

3.2 Licenses

We offer the following hypershot license types:

v1.x License — Entitles you to all updates within the 1.x version range.
Lifetime License — Entitles you to all future updates, across all major versions.

Both paid licenses include a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. To request a refund, contact us at [email protected]. Full details are in our Refund Policy.

3.3 License Restrictions

Each hypershot license is for one individual on up to three personal devices. You may not:

Share, resell, or redistribute your license key
Use a single license across a team or organization (contact us for team pricing)
Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the application

4. User Content

You retain full ownership of everything you create with our apps, including screenshots, recordings, and annotations (“Your Content”). We do not access, store, or transmit Your Content. All processing happens locally on your device.

5. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use our apps to:

Capture or record content you do not have the right to capture
Violate any applicable laws or regulations
Infringe on the privacy or intellectual property rights of others
Create misleading or fraudulent content

6. Analytics

Our apps may collect anonymous usage data to help us improve them. This may include:

Feature usage counts (e.g., number of screenshots, tools or effects used)
Application performance data (e.g., load times, render performance)
Crash reports and error logs
Device information (OS version, hardware model)

What we do NOT collect:

❌ Screenshots, recordings, or annotations
❌ Audio, or anything about the contents of your Trash or Recycle Bin
❌ File names, paths, or contents
❌ Personal information or identity data
❌ Anything visible on your screen

Analytics data is aggregated and anonymized — it cannot be traced back to you individually.

You may opt in or out of analytics collection at any time in each app: in hypershot, via Settings → About (the Help improve the app by sharing anonymous usage data checkbox); in hyperbin, Share Usage Data in its menu; in hyperwave, Send Anonymous Usage Data in its menu. Your choice does not affect your access to any features. Our Privacy Policy lists exactly what each app sends.

Analytics data may be processed by third-party services (such as crash reporting tools). These services are bound by their own privacy policies and data processing agreements.

7. Third-Party Software

Our apps are built using the Qt framework. hypershot uses the Qt libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3, in compliance with its terms. For details, see: https://www.qt.io/licensing

A complete list of third-party open-source components used in hypershot is available in the application’s About panel. hyperbin’s and hyperwave’s components, and the licenses each one’s builds are distributed under, are listed in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES file in each app’s source repository.

8. Updates

We may release updates, patches, or new versions of our apps from time to time. For hypershot, your license type determines which updates you are entitled to receive. We are not obligated to provide any specific updates.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

Our apps and website are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not guarantee that our apps will be error-free, uninterrupted, or meet your specific requirements.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, hypernuclear shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of data, business interruption, or loss of profits, arising out of or in connection with your use of our apps or website.

In no event shall our total liability exceed the amount you paid for your hypershot license or, if you have paid us nothing, fifty US dollars (US $50).

11. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to our apps if you violate these Terms. Upon termination, you must uninstall the affected app and cease all use. Termination of these Terms does not limit the rights the MIT License grants you in hyperbin’s and hyperwave’s source code. Sections 4, 8, 9, and 11 shall survive termination.

12. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States and the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via our apps or by email. Your continued use of our apps after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

14. Website Use

These Terms also apply to your use of our website at hypernuclear.com (“Website”). By accessing or using the Website, you agree to these Terms.

14.1 Website Content

The Website and its content are provided for informational purposes. You may not:

Scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract data from the Website
Reproduce, distribute, or modify Website content without written permission
Use the Website in any manner that could damage, disable, or impair our servers or networks

14.2 Payment Processing

Purchases made through the Website are processed by our third-party payment provider. By making a purchase, you agree to:

Provide accurate and complete billing information
Pay all applicable charges at the listed prices, plus any taxes
Your payment information being processed by our payment provider in accordance with their terms and privacy policy

We do not store your full credit card information on our servers. Refunds are processed in accordance with our 30-day money-back guarantee.

Discounts and promotion codes. A purchase can use one discount or promotion code. Sales and codes, including those shared by our affiliate partners, may change or end at any time, can’t be exchanged for cash, and don’t apply to past purchases. Partners who share codes do so under our Affiliate program terms.

14.3 Cookies and Website Analytics

The Website does not use cookies for analytics, advertising or tracking. It measures visits with Plausible Analytics and Ahrefs Web Analytics, which use no cookies and collect no personal data. The only cookie is an essential one, set when you sign in to manage your license. See section 6 of our Privacy Policy for details.

15. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

hypernuclear Email: [email protected] Website: https://hypernuclear.com

These Terms of Service were last updated on October 21, 2026.