Licences and acknowledgements

Stillreel is built on Apple's frameworks and a small amount of open-source software. Thank you to everyone who made it.

Included in the app

Component	Version	Licence	Copyright
whisper.cpp (including ggml)	1.9.5	MIT	Copyright (c) 2023-2026 The ggml authors
OpenAI Whisper model weights (ggml-small, multilingual)	small	MIT	Copyright (c) 2022 OpenAI
serde	1.0	MIT or Apache-2.0	Copyright the serde developers
serde_json (and its dependencies itoa, memchr, zmij, serde_core)	1.0	MIT or Apache-2.0 (memchr: MIT or Unlicense)	Copyright their respective authors
Rust standard library		MIT or Apache-2.0	Copyright the Rust project developers

The full licence texts are also shown in the app under Stillreel ▸ Acknowledgements.

Used by the app, not included

Apple frameworks (AVFoundation, Core Image, Core Text, Vision, SwiftUI) are part of macOS.
Caption fonts: the caption styles use typefaces installed with macOS (Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Futura and Avenir Next). They are not copied into the app.
OpenTimelineIO (Apache-2.0): Stillreel writes the open .otio format with its own code; no OpenTimelineIO code is included.

Stillreel does not include or call FFmpeg.

This website

The text on the social preview image uses Aileron by Sora Sagano (dotcolon), released under CC0. Screenshots show Stillreel playing our own synthetic test footage.

MIT licence text

Applies to whisper.cpp and the Whisper model weights, with the copyright lines above.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.