How the seven-day trial works

Seven days, everything unlocked, and no card asked for.

The clock starts at your first recording, not at the download

Downloading Nico costs you nothing and starts nothing. The trial starts on the first recording that comes back as text — and only that: silence, a failed decode, and a decode that produced no words do not start it.

So installing it and then forgetting about it for a fortnight costs you nothing. The seven days begin when you actually use it for the first time, which is the only point at which they are any use to you.

The elapsed time is on the Status screen. Nothing counts down at you anywhere else.

What "ended" means, exactly

When the seven days are up, new recording is paused. That is all that happens, and "paused" is doing real work in that sentence:

• Anything already running finishes. The check happens once, before the microphone opens, and never again — so a transcription, a task or an app build that is already in flight is not interrupted. Nico will not stop something halfway through because a clock ran out.

• Nico stays open. History, retained recordings and every session folder are still there and still exportable. Nothing is hidden behind a lock and nothing is deleted.

• Your apps keep working. They are ordinary folders on your Mac with their own data folders, and they are not ours to switch off.

The same rule applies later if a subscription lapses. There is one behaviour to learn, not two.

After the trial

Nico is $25 a month. You subscribe on the website, a licence key arrives by email, and you paste it into the Status screen. There is no account to create and nothing to sign into — see How your licence works.

If you would rather not, you keep everything the trial produced and we never had your card number.