Licenses

Third-party licenses

Last updated: July 19, 2026

NoteGenerator stands on open-source software, and this page names it — every third-party component the app is built with, the license each is provided under, and a link to its authoritative license text. The list is checked against the app’s actual build manifests: nothing appears here that the shipped app does not use, and nothing the app uses is left out. Versions are those of the current build and move with releases. These components belong to their publishers and are licensed under their own terms — see Section 10 of the Terms of Service.

The Mac app — core components

llama.cpp

MIT License

The inference engine that runs the on-device note-writing model. Bundled as the official prebuilt llama.xcframework from the ggml-org releases.

github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp · License text

WhisperKit (v0.18.0)

MIT License

The on-device speech-recognition framework that runs transcription on your Mac.

Attribution: © 2024 Argmax, Inc.

github.com/argmaxinc/WhisperKit · License text

Whisper speech-recognition models

MIT License (Whisper, by OpenAI)

The speech models transcription runs on. The base model ships inside the app; larger variants are downloaded only if you choose them, as Core ML conversions published by Argmax on Hugging Face (argmaxinc/whisperkit-coreml).

Attribution: © OpenAI

github.com/openai/whisper · License text · Core ML conversions

Gemma 4 12B (note-writing model)

Apache License 2.0

The on-device AI model that writes your notes. Downloaded at first setup — and again only if you choose to add, replace, or update a model — as a quantized (GGUF) build published by Unsloth on Hugging Face, of Google’s gemma-4-12B-it.

Attribution: Gemma 4 — © Google, licensed under the Apache License 2.0

huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it · huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF · License text

Sparkle (v2.6.4)

MIT License, with bundled portions (for example bsdiff, by Colin Percival) under BSD-style licenses — all stated in Sparkle’s license file

The macOS software-update framework behind the app’s update checks and installs.

Attribution: © Andy Matuschak, Elgato Systems GmbH, Kornel Lesiński, Mayur Pawashe, C.W. Betts, Petroules Corporation, Big Nerd Ranch, and the Sparkle Project contributors

github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle · License text

Swift packages resolved into the build

The components above pull in the following Swift packages, which the app’s build resolves and pins:

This website

NoteGenerator.com is built with open-source tools as well — Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS, each under the MIT License — alongside commercially licensed design components used under their own paid license.

Read this alongside the Terms of Service.