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Terms of use
These terms cover buying and using software from itfanatic. They are written to be read, not to be impressive.
Who we are. “We” and “us” are ITFanatic - Inhaber: Balazs Csaba Lendvay, a sole trader, Lessingstr. 3a, 65468 Trebur, Germany — the business named in our Impressum. Your licence agreement is with us, whichever company processes the payment (see Payment and tax). By buying a licence or using the software, you agree to these terms.
If you are buying from Germany
We are based in Germany, and the German version of these terms — the AGB — is the one that governs for consumers habitually resident there. It says the same thing — including its liability clause (§ 13), which is written to the limits German law makes mandatory and which the section below reproduces in English. Your statutory right of withdrawal is set out separately.
What you are buying
A perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the software on computers you own or control. You are buying a licence to use it, not the software itself — copyright stays with us.
The purchase is one-time. There is no subscription and nothing renews.
What your licence covers
- Every release within the major version you bought — a 1.x licence runs every 1.x release.
- Installation on your own machines. There is no activation limit and no online check.
- Use for personal or business purposes.
Major versions
A future major version (for example 2.0) is a separate paid upgrade. If you bought a licence from this site within 60 days before that release, we will send you the new licence free of charge without you asking. A purchase made in an app store is covered by that store's own rules instead — see Payment and tax.
Updates
The software never updates itself. It has no auto-updater and makes no update check — it makes no network requests at all, which is the same property that lets it run on a machine that has never been online. Of its own accord it downloads and installs nothing.
There is one case where a new version can arrive on its own, and it is not the software doing it: if you installed from an app store, that store's own client may download and install a new version for you, on its schedule and under settings you control in that client rather than here. That is the store acting, not the software — which still makes no network request of any kind. Whether it does so is between you and that store, and we do not undertake that it will.
That means the software will not tell you a new version exists, so there are two ways to hear about one. Every release is published on the product page, which is the reliable one. We may also email the address you bought with, but treat that as a courtesy rather than a guarantee — mail goes astray, and if you have asked us to erase your details we no longer have an address to write to.
To update, download the new version and install it over the old one; a copy that came from an app store updates through that store instead, though the product page stays the reliable route either way. Your licence file stays valid for every release in its major version, so there is nothing to re-import, and your projects are untouched.
What you may not do
- Share, resell, publish, or sublicense your licence file. It carries your name and email.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to circumvent licensing, except where the law expressly gives you that right regardless of contract.
- Remove copyright notices or pass the software off as your own.
- Use the software for anything unlawful, or to infringe anyone else’s rights — for example in images you have no right to process or publish.
None of the above restricts any right the licence of a third-party component gives you. In particular, the software includes Qt, libheif and libde265 under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL-3.0), as separate, replaceable shared-library files — not compiled in. You may modify those libraries, relink the software against your own interface-compatible build of them, and reverse engineer the software as far as needed to debug such modifications. Licence texts, copyright notices, relinking instructions and the corresponding source code are at itfanatic.com/opensource and inside the software itself.
The trial
The trial is free, requires no account, and is limited to 300 photos. It is read-only: it will not modify, move, delete, or export your files. It is provided as-is and we may change or end it at any time. Nothing in the trial creates an obligation on either side.
Your files
The software processes files on your computer and can modify them once licensed — including writing tags, renaming, and moving. Keep backups. You are responsible for your own data, and we strongly recommend trying it on a copy of a folder before letting it work on an irreplaceable library.
No warranty
The software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability or of fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that it will be error-free or that it will correctly identify or tag any particular image — it uses machine learning, and machine learning is sometimes wrong.
Limitation of liability
We are liable without limit for damage arising from injury to life, body or health caused by an intentional or negligent breach of duty, and for other damage caused by an intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty.
For simple negligence we are liable only where we breach an obligation essential to the purpose of this contract — an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place, and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical of this kind of contract.
Liability under the German Product Liability Act, and under any guarantee we have expressly given, is unaffected. Nothing above alters the statutory burden of proof to your disadvantage, and nothing above excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded — including liability for fraud.
If you are a consumer
You have statutory rights under the consumer law of your country that these terms cannot take away, including rights about faulty goods and, in the EU and UK, a right to withdraw from a distance purchase. Those rights apply in addition to everything above. The 14-day withdrawal right, how to use it, and the model form are set out on the withdrawal page — and note we do not let it lapse early for immediate delivery, as most software shops do. Our own 30-day refund policy is longer still.
This applies wherever you live, not only in Europe. Some countries — Australia and Canada among them, and several states of the USA — give consumers guarantees that a contract is not permitted to exclude or limit at all. Where that is so, those guarantees apply to your purchase in full, and nothing on this page reduces them.
Payment and tax
Who sells you the licence depends on where you buy it. Buying from this site — or using a licence file bought from this site — payments are processed by Stripe, who act as the seller of record and are responsible for collecting and remitting VAT and equivalent taxes. If you choose to pay through Paddle instead — the PayPal option on our product page, whose checkout also takes cards and other payment methods — our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com, and Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for that order, whichever payment method you use there: it processes the payment, collects and remits VAT and equivalent taxes, and issues your receipt. Buying the full-version unlock as an add-on inside the Microsoft Store, Microsoft is the seller of record for that purchase and handles the tax; buying the app in the Mac App Store, Apple is. In every case your receipt comes from whoever sold you the licence, and the licence itself is granted by us.
The Paddle company you buy from depends on where you are: Paddle.com Market Limited, 30 Old Bailey, London EC4M 7AU, United Kingdom, for most of the world; Paddle.com Inc. in the United States; and Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd. in Canada. Paddle’s own buyer terms apply to the payment itself. Our refund policy and our withdrawal notice apply to an order paid through Paddle exactly as they do to one paid through Stripe.
The three routes do not buy the same thing. A licence file bought from this site — whether you paid through Stripe or Paddle — runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, on any computer. The Microsoft Store add-on unlocks the Windows Store build only — it is tied to the Microsoft account that bought it, so it follows you to another Windows PC signed in with that account, but it cannot unlock the macOS or Linux build. A Mac App Store purchase covers the Mac App Store version only, on Macs with Apple silicon, through the Apple Account that bought it; it produces no licence file.
For a purchase made in an app store, that store's own terms govern the purchase itself — payment, refunds and withdrawal — and our refund policy, our withdrawal notice and the free-upgrade window above apply only to licences bought on this site. The licence, and everything else in these terms, applies however you bought.
Ending the licence
Your licence lasts indefinitely. We may terminate it if you materially breach these terms — for example by publishing your licence file so others can use it. In practice, since the licence works offline, termination means you no longer have the right to use the software rather than us switching it off remotely; we have no mechanism to do that.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms for future purchases. The terms that apply to you are the ones published when you bought.
Export control and sanctions
The software is supplied from Germany and is subject to European Union and German export-control and sanctions law. You may not download, install, use or pass on the software where doing so would breach those rules, and by buying you confirm that you are not located in — and are not acting for a person located in, or for a person or body listed under — a territory or regime subject to comprehensive EU or United Nations sanctions. If that applies to you, do not buy: we cannot supply you, and a purchase made in breach of this will be refunded rather than fulfilled.
Governing law
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, that choice of law applies only so far as it does not remove the protection given to you by mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you habitually live. Those protections continue to apply whatever this page says.
Consumer dispute resolution
We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). The European Commission’s online dispute-resolution platform was shut down on 20 July 2025 and is no longer available. For any problem, write to support@itfanatic.com — it reaches a real person, and it is the fastest route to a refund if you want one.
Language and severability
This English page and the German AGB state the same agreement. If they differ, the German version governs for consumers who habitually live in Germany — in particular its liability clause (§ 13), which mirrors the limits German law makes mandatory and which the section above reproduces in English.
If any provision of these terms is or becomes invalid, the rest remains in force.