Hopkey

Terms of Service

The rules for using Hopkey and this site: what you get with Free and Pro, what is expected of you, and the limits of liability.

Last updated November 12, 2026

Who you are dealing with

These terms apply between you and Sorin-Ionut Curescu, Nürnberg, Germany ("we", "us"). Full operator details are on the imprint.

What these terms cover

"Hopkey" means the Hopkey app for Mac, its updates, and this website, hopkey.app.

Who may use Hopkey

You must be at least 16 years old. If you use Hopkey on behalf of a company or organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms for it.

Free and Pro

  • The Free features can be used without payment.
  • Every download starts with 14 days of Pro. After that, Hopkey keeps working with the Free features.
  • Pro is a one-time purchase. One license covers up to 5 Macs and includes free updates for version 1.

Your license key is for your own use. You must not publish or sell it, use it on more Macs than your license covers, or bypass the license check.

Buying Pro

Pro is sold through Polar, which acts as merchant of record. Polar's terms apply to the purchase and the payment. The price, what it includes, and any information about your statutory right of withdrawal are shown before you buy. Your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.

Browsers and macOS

Hopkey works with Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge and Vivaldi through macOS permissions you grant, such as Automation, Accessibility and Full Disk Access. You can revoke them at any time in System Settings, Privacy & Security. Some features need a specific permission or browser.

Hopkey is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple, The Browser Company or the makers of these browsers. Their names and logos are trademarks of their owners. Browser and macOS updates can change how a feature works.

Acceptable use

You must not:

  • use Hopkey to break the law;
  • attack, probe, overload or disrupt this site or the update and license services, or bypass their rate limits or access controls.

Availability and changes

Free features are offered without a right to continued availability and may be changed, limited or discontinued at any time. Paid features are changed only within the limits of the law, in particular section 327r of the German Civil Code (BGB).

Warranty

Free features are provided as they are. Statutory warranty rights apply to paid features.

Liability

  • We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and under any guarantee we have given.
  • For features provided free of charge, any further liability is excluded, in line with the statutory standard for gratuitous services (sections 521 and 599 BGB).
  • For paid features, we are liable for slight negligence only where we breach an essential obligation, meaning one whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible and on which you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the damage typically foreseeable when the contract was made.
  • These limits also apply to the personal liability of anyone acting for us.

Law and jurisdiction

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you habitually reside. If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is Nürnberg.

We are not obliged and not willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated with effect for the future. The version shown on this page, with its date at the top, applies to use from that date. A purchase is governed by the terms in force when it was made.

Final provisions

If any provision of these terms is invalid, the remaining provisions stay effective and the statutory rules apply in place of the invalid provision.

Contact

Questions about these terms: [email protected].