Sortbook end user licence agreement

1. What you get

Sortbook is free to use for thirty days from the day you first run it. After that it stops sorting until you buy it.

What stopping does not touch, deliberately: your Activity log, Undo, and restoring anything from Staging keep working after the thirty days. Sortbook moves your files and never deletes them, and a payment must never stand between you and your own documents.

2. Your licence

You buy Sortbook once, from the Microsoft Store or the Mac App Store, and the store holds your licence. On Windows it belongs to your Microsoft account; on macOS, to your Apple ID. There is no licence key, no activation, no account with us and no server of ours involved at any point. Sortbook is not sold anywhere else.

3. Updates

Your purchase includes twelve months of updates to this major version of Sortbook. A future major version is a separate purchase, and buying it is never required: the version you bought keeps working, and keeps sorting, for as long as you have it.

4. Your data

Sortbook works only on your machine. It reads the names, extensions and modified dates of files in the folders you point it at, and moves files between folders on that machine. It does not open or read the contents of your files. There is no account, no backend, no telemetry and no analytics, and Sortbook’s own program has no networking code compiled into it at all.

Sortbook’s window is drawn using Microsoft’s WebView2, a Windows component we do not ship and do not control, which has its own update and diagnostics behaviour governed by Microsoft. We describe what Sortbook does rather than making a promise about your whole machine.

5. What you may not do

Redistribute Sortbook as part of another product, or work around the thirty-day limit. There is no licence key to share, because there is no licence key.

6. Refunds

Refunds are handled by the store you bought Sortbook from, under that store’s own policy. Sortbook is sold nowhere else, so there is no separate refund route and the studio offers none of its own.

7. No warranty, and what that means here

Sortbook is provided as is. It tidies folders by rules you set. It is not a backup, and it does not protect you from losing a file by any other means. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid for Sortbook.

8. Ending it

You may stop using Sortbook at any time. We may end this licence if you breach clause 5. Files Sortbook has already moved stay exactly where they are, and your Activity log and Staging folder remain yours and readable either way.

9. Law

This agreement is governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates. If you bought Sortbook as a consumer, nothing here affects any rights you have under the mandatory law of your own country.