Terms

Last updated October 12, 2026.

These terms are an agreement between you and Main Course Media LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("we," "us," or "our"), for Syllabus, its Mac app, its website, and this account service. By creating an account or using Syllabus you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use Syllabus. Section headings are for convenience and do not change what a section means. "Including" means "including without limit."

Who can use it

You must be 18 or older and able to enter a binding agreement. One account is for one person.

Your account

You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping your Google account, your Mac, and any API keys you connect secure. Give us accurate account and billing details. Do not sell, rent, or share access to your account.

Your recordings are your responsibility

Syllabus is for recording and studying lectures you attend. Syllabus does not ask for, collect, or confirm permission from anyone you record, and neither do we. Getting that permission is entirely your responsibility, and so is any legal consequence of recording without it.

Recording laws differ from place to place. Some require the consent of everyone who can be heard, and schools, instructors, and employers can set rules stricter than the law. Each time you record, you are telling us that you have every permission the recording needs: from your instructor, from anyone else who can be heard, under your school's rules, and under every law that applies where you record. Do not use Syllabus to record private conversations, or to copy, share, or sell course material you have no right to.

We do not review, monitor, or control what you record, and we are not a party to any recording you make.

Your content

You keep all rights you have in your recordings, transcripts, questions, and notes ("Your Content"). You give us a limited, nonexclusive permission to process Your Content only as needed to run Syllabus for you: to transcribe and summarize it, run the study assistant, move it between your Macs and services, keep the service secure, and comply with law, as the privacy page describes. This gives us no ownership of it.

You agree to defend us against, and repay us for, third-party claims and the resulting losses, costs, and reasonable legal fees, to the extent they come from (a) your recording anyone without their permission where the law or a rule required it, (b) Your Content infringing or violating someone else's rights, or (c) your use of Syllabus in breach of these terms or the law. This does not apply to claims caused by our own breach of these terms.

Plans, trial, and billing

• Starter · $9 a month for 15 hours of lecture audio
• Standard · $15 a month for 30 hours of lecture audio
• Pro · $25 a month for 45 hours of lecture audio, plus 15 study assistant sessions

• Trial. Every plan starts with 5 hours of lecture audio to try it. We ask for a card at the start and do not charge it until those hours are used or 7 days have passed, whichever comes first. One trial per person.
• Automatic renewal. A plan renews every month and your card is charged the plan's price, plus any sales tax, until you cancel. We will email you before a price goes up, and a new price starts only at your next renewal.
• Hours. A plan's hours are for its month and do not carry over. When they run out, recording stops until the next month or until you upgrade. You are never billed for going over.
• Upgrading. While your plan is active and set to renew, you can move to a bigger plan from your account page. We charge the difference between the two plans' monthly prices right away, plus any sales tax, and your hours for the month go up once that payment goes through. Your plan then renews at the new price on its usual date. To move to a smaller plan, cancel, then choose the smaller plan once your current month ends.

Refunds

• Canceling. Cancel any time under Manage billing on your account page. You keep your plan's hours until the end of the month you have paid for, and you are not charged again. Canceling does not refund the current month.
• Deleting your account. We cancel your plan and refund the unused part of the current month to your card, in proportion to the time left, including any upgrade you paid for that month. Tax is refunded in the same proportion.
• If we end Syllabus. If we stop offering Syllabus, we will give you at least 30 days' notice and refund any month you have paid for and not received.
• Billing errors. If you were charged the wrong amount, or twice, write to syllabus@maincoursemedia.com within 60 days and we will correct it and refund the difference.
• Where the law says otherwise. We will give any refund the law requires. Refunds go to the original card and can take several business days to appear.
• Codes. A promotion code from us is personal, may end, may be withdrawn if it was obtained or used improperly, and has no cash value.

Acceptable use

Do not resell access, get around the limits on your plan, send anything to the service other than lectures and your own study questions, look for weaknesses in or attack the service except through a program we have authorized, upload malicious code, use it to break the law, or interfere with the service or other people's use of it. We may suspend or close an account that does, and we will tell you why unless the law or an urgent security problem prevents it.

AI output

Transcripts, summaries, and study assistant answers are made by AI. They can be wrong, incomplete, misheard, or invented. Do not treat them as an exact record of a lecture or an authoritative source. Check anything important against the lecture and your course materials. Follow your school's rules on using AI in coursework; we do not promise that your school allows it.

Other companies' services

Syllabus depends on services run by others, including AI, payment, Google, and hosting providers, under their own terms. We do not control them. They can change or stop, and we may replace a provider when we reasonably need to keep Syllabus running.

Our property and open source

Except for Your Content and open-source and third-party material, we keep our rights in Syllabus, including its name, branding, hosted service, and design. Parts of Syllabus are open source, and the license on those parts governs your rights to them. It does not give you our name, branding, private systems, or paid service.

Feedback

If you send us a suggestion or bug report, we may use it without owing you anything. This gives us no ownership of Your Content.

Ending your use

You may stop using Syllabus at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you materially break these terms, use the service fraudulently, put it or others at risk, leave a payment unpaid after we have tried to collect it, or the law requires it. Where we reasonably can we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. Sections that by their nature should continue, including those on ownership, indemnity, warranty, liability, and disputes, do.

Changes to the service and these terms

Syllabus may change, and features may be added or removed. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we will email you before the change takes effect; using Syllabus after that means you accept the new terms. If you do not accept them, stop using Syllabus and cancel before they take effect. Your recordings and notes stay on your Mac and in your Google Drive whether or not the service continues.

No warranty

SYLLABUS IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THAT SYLLABUS WILL BE ACCURATE, UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, FREE OF DATA LOSS, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR ACCEPTED BY YOUR SCHOOL, OR THAT OTHER COMPANIES' SERVICES WILL STAY AVAILABLE. Nothing here removes a right the law does not let us remove.

Limits on liability

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, MAIN COURSE MEDIA LLC AND ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, INCLUDING LOST DATA, LOST PROFITS, LOST GRADES OR OTHER ACADEMIC CONSEQUENCES, OR LOSS FROM RELYING ON AI OUTPUT. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM SYLLABUS OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF WHAT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE AND $100. These limits do not apply to liability the law does not allow us to limit.

Events outside our control

We are not responsible for delay or failure caused by things beyond our reasonable control, such as internet or power outages, disasters, government action, cyberattacks, or the failure of another company's service.

Law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict of law rules. Any dispute belongs in the state courts located in Dallas County, Texas, or the federal court for that county, and you and we both agree to their jurisdiction. Either of us may use a small-claims court where it applies, and nothing here waives a right that cannot be waived.

The rest

• If part is unenforceable, the rest still applies, and that part is enforced as far as the law allows.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce something right away, we can still enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your account or these terms without our written permission. We may transfer them as part of a merger, sale, or reorganization of Syllabus.
• No third-party beneficiaries. These terms give rights only to you and to us, apart from the people named in the limits on liability.
• Electronic communications. You agree that we may give you notices and other messages by email to the address on your account, or on this website, and that they count as written. Keep that address current.
• Notices to us. Send legal notices by mail to Main Course Media LLC, 5900 Balcones Drive, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78731, or by email to syllabus@maincoursemedia.com with "Legal notice" in the subject. Email notices take effect when we reply to confirm we have them.
• Whole agreement. These terms, the privacy page, and any extra terms shown for a particular plan or feature are the whole agreement between us about Syllabus and replace earlier ones on the same subject.

Contact

Main Course Media LLC, 5900 Balcones Drive, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78731. syllabus@maincoursemedia.com