Terms of use

Updated October 9, 2026

These are the terms of use of Kvelo, an agreement between you and the developer of the kvelo.dev website and the Kvelo product (“we”). They apply from October 9, 2026 and replace the previous version.

How we handle data is described in the Privacy policy. If you have paid for access to Kvelo, the Terms of sale govern that payment, and these terms govern everything else.

1. What Kvelo is

Kvelo is a personal AI assistant that works with your Kvelo folder on your Mac. Kvelo includes:

the Kvelo app for Mac;
your Kvelo folder with the Kvelo core: our rules, playbooks, onboarding and service tools;
your Kvelo account at app.kvelo.dev;
the kvelo.dev website, downloads and updates at get.kvelo.dev, and backups;
working with the folder through Cursor, Claude Code and Codex, and the Telegram companion on your own server.

The assistant runs on your own ChatGPT or Claude subscription. Kvelo is not an AI model and not an AI provider.

2. Accepting these terms

You accept these terms when you create or sign in to an account, and when you install or use Kvelo. If you do not agree, do not use Kvelo.

You must be at least 18 to use Kvelo. If you accept these terms on behalf of a company, you confirm that you are authorised to do so.

3. Your account

You sign in with Google or with a code sent to your email. The account has no password.
One account per person. Use an email address you have access to.
Keep your email and Google account secure: they are how you get into Kvelo. Actions taken from your account count as yours until you tell us that someone else has gained access to it.
The app signs in to your account through the browser. Confirm a sign-in to Kvelo only if you started it yourself.
If someone has gained access to your account, write to [email protected] right away. We may end all sessions of the account.

4. Access, the waitlist and invitations

Kvelo is provided in early access. We grant access at our discretion. After you sign up, you join the waitlist. We do not guarantee when access will be granted.
We notify you by email to your account’s address when access is granted.
An invitation works through the link in the email. The link is personal, works for 30 days and can be used once. Do not forward it.
Access is tied to your account through a Kvelo access key. The key is needed for the folder, updates and backups to work. Do not share or sell your access, key or invitations.
Early access to Kvelo is provided free of charge. The terms of paid access are set out in the Terms of sale. Paid features are enabled only if you choose them.

5. Your ChatGPT or Claude subscription

The assistant runs on your ChatGPT subscription from OpenAI or your Claude subscription from Anthropic. You sign in to your subscription on the provider’s website, and the app stores the access to it on your Mac.
The app sends your messages, files and the folder context needed for an answer to your provider. The provider handles them under its own terms and privacy policy, which you accepted when you subscribed.
The provider sets the price, limits, models and availability of the subscription. We have no influence over them.
You are responsible for using your subscription in line with the provider’s rules. The provider may change its rules on using subscriptions in third-party apps, or limit or end such use. We are not responsible for the provider’s decisions about your account.
We are not a party to your agreement with the provider and do not refund subscription fees.

6. Kvelo for Mac

We grant you, free of charge, a non-exclusive licence to the Kvelo app: to install it, meaning to store it in the memory of the Mac computers you use, and to run it for personal and work purposes. The licence is worldwide and lasts as long as these terms apply to you. You may not transfer it.
Kvelo for Mac is currently signed without an Apple developer certificate and is not notarised by Apple. On first launch, macOS will warn that it cannot verify the developer, and you will need to open Kvelo manually. Download Kvelo only from kvelo.dev, app.kvelo.dev and get.kvelo.dev, or install it with our Terminal command. We do not check copies from anywhere else and are not responsible for them.
Kvelo needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.
The assistant works on your Mac with your user account’s permissions, within the limits Kvelo sets. It can create, change, move and delete files in your Kvelo folder, run commands and open pages from links. You can undo the assistant’s changes as long as nobody has changed those files since. Keep an eye on what the assistant does and keep your own backups, for example with Time Machine.
We release updates. The core in your Kvelo folder updates automatically.
Kvelo contains open-source components. They are distributed under their own licences, listed in the “About Kvelo” window.

7. Your Kvelo folder and your materials

The files, notes, memory and everything you create in the folder and with the assistant belong to you. We get no rights to them.
The Kvelo core in the folder means the rules, playbooks, onboarding, templates and service tools in .kvelo and skills/kvelo-*. The core belongs to us. We grant you, free of charge, a non-exclusive licence to use it in your folder, including copying it during updates, backups and sync with your own server, on the same terms as the app licence. The licence does not include modifying the core. Write your own rules and playbooks next to it: updates leave them untouched.
Your materials reach us only in the cases set out in the Privacy policy: as an encrypted backup, and when you write to us. We keep the backup for you and open it only at your request or where the law requires.
The Kvelo backup does not replace your own. We keep the 7 most recent copies and restore your folder on request, but we do not promise that a copy will always be available.

8. What the assistant says and does

AI makes mistakes. The assistant’s answers and actions may be inaccurate, incomplete or wrong. Check them before you send them to anyone, publish them or make decisions based on them.
The assistant is not a substitute for a doctor, lawyer, financial adviser or any other professional.
The assistant acts on your instructions. You decide what to ask it to do, which services to give it access to and which actions to confirm. Its actions in your services and on your behalf count as yours.
We claim no rights in the assistant’s answers. Rights in them are determined by the law and the terms of your AI provider.

9. Services you connect

You connect your calendar, task list, voice transcription, Telegram, hosting for the companion and any other service yourself, on your own accounts and under their rules. The assistant gets access to them within the limits you set, and you can revoke that access in the service itself. You rent and pay for the server for the Telegram companion yourself. Kvelo helps you set it up and maintain it from your Mac, but does not run it on an ongoing basis. We do not control how these services work.

10. What you must not do

You must not:

break the law or infringe the rights of others, including their data and intellectual property;
create or distribute malware, spam or fraudulent material;
access other people’s systems, accounts or data without permission;
get around Kvelo’s limits: the key check, the core’s protection, rate limits or sign-in protection;
share, sell or rent out your access, key or invitations;
create accounts in bulk or automatically, or disrupt Kvelo’s websites and servers;
copy or distribute the Kvelo core apart from your folder, or present it as your own;
take the app apart to get around its protection or to build a competing product, except where the law expressly allows it.

11. Our rights in Kvelo

The app, the core, the websites, the texts, the design, and the Kvelo name and logo belong to us or are used by us under licence. We grant you only the rights in sections 6 and 7. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them freely and without any obligation to you.

12. How Kvelo changes

We may change, add or remove features of Kvelo, change system requirements and the subscriptions we support, and discontinue Kvelo, by notifying you by email or in the app. Your folder and files on your Mac stay with you.

13. No warranties

Kvelo is provided “as is” and “as available”. It is in early access, so failures and bugs are possible. We do not promise that Kvelo will suit your needs, work without interruption or errors, be compatible with your software and services, or that AI providers and other services will remain available on the same terms. This does not limit the rights the law gives you.

14. Liability

We are not liable for:

the operation, availability, pricing or decisions of AI providers and other third-party services;
the consequences of actions by the assistant that you instructed or confirmed, or of decisions made based on its answers;
loss, alteration or disclosure of data caused by your equipment, your accounts, the services you connected, or other people using your access;
loss of profit, business interruption or any other indirect loss.

If we are liable despite this, our total liability on any ground is limited to the amount you have actually paid us for Kvelo.

These limits do not apply to harm caused intentionally, or where the law does not allow liability to be limited, including under consumer protection law. If any limit is found invalid, the rest of these terms remain in force.

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using Kvelo at any time and delete your account by writing to [email protected].
We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if it is necessary to keep you or others safe, or if the law or a provider Kvelo cannot work without requires it.
When access is closed, the key stops working: the core no longer updates, backups are no longer made, and the app cannot sign in to your account. Your folder and files on your Mac stay with you.
After termination, data is processed as set out in the Privacy policy.
Sections 7, 8, 11, 13, 14 and 17 continue to apply after termination.

16. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. A new version takes effect when it is published on this page, unless it states otherwise. We notify you of material changes by email or in the app. By continuing to use Kvelo after a new version takes effect, you accept it. If you do not agree with it, stop using Kvelo.

17. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the place where we are established. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

Before going to court, send your complaint to [email protected]. The period for replying to a complaint is 30 days. If the dispute is not resolved, it is heard by the competent court at our location, unless the law gives you the right to go to another court. This does not limit your rights as a consumer.

18. Other terms

If any provision of these terms is found invalid, the rest remain in force.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to a successor by notifying you.
We send notices to your account’s email address or show them in the app. You can write to us at [email protected].

19. Contact

The developer of kvelo.dev.

Email: [email protected]. Website: kvelo.dev.