Ears 1.7.190

Registration

• Ears now asks for an email address when it first runs, and registers your
  copy with the licence service. Ears is free.
• Registering is optional. "Not now" works, and so does the app.
• The licence renews itself quietly — when you open Ears, and after a meeting
  finishes. You should never see it expire.
• Settings ▸ Licence shows what you registered with and when the licence runs
  to, and has a button to delete your registration outright. That removes your
  email address and this installation from the service; nothing on this Mac is
  touched and Ears keeps working.

What is sent

• Your email address, a random identifier for this installation, and the app
  and macOS versions. Nothing else — never your meetings, recordings,
  transcripts, notes or screenshots.
• Being emailed about Ears is a separate tick box, off by default. Registering
  is not the same as agreeing to be marketed to.
• The privacy policy has been updated to say all of this plainly.

Under the hood

• Licences are signed with Ed25519 and verified on this Mac, so a licence can
  be checked with no network at all. A licence problem can never stop or
  interrupt a recording — a lost meeting cannot be recovered, and a licence
  complaint can always wait.