Last updated: May 20, 2026
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your use of Bareview, including the Bareview macOS application, the bareview.app website, and any related documentation or integration instructions (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is provided by Arbiter Technologies Ltd. ("we", "us", "our"). By downloading, installing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms.
1.1. Bareview is a macOS application that renders Markdown files (.md, .markdown) locally in a single window. It is a read-only viewer: it does not edit, manage, organize, or sync files, and it does not provide accounts, workspaces, or cloud features.
1.2. Bareview operates entirely on your device. It does not make network requests, send telemetry, or connect to any server operated by us.
1.3. The bareview.app website provides marketing information, downloads, and optional documentation describing how to configure third-party tools to open Markdown files in Bareview.
1.4. Personal data handling is described separately in our App Privacy Policy and Website Privacy Notice.
2.1. Bareview is distributed as a free, direct download from bareview.app. There is no purchase, subscription, in-app purchase, account, license key, or recurring fee.
2.2. We may modify, suspend, or stop offering the download or the website at any time, with or without notice. This does not affect copies of the app you have already lawfully downloaded.
3.1. The website includes optional documentation describing how to configure WezTerm, iTerm2, Ghostty, or the macOS system defaults so that clicking a Markdown path opens the file in Bareview. This documentation is informational.
3.2. You are solely responsible for reviewing, authorizing, and maintaining any configuration changes you choose to make on systems you control, including edits to terminal configuration files (such as ~/.wezterm.lua or iTerm2 profile preferences) and changes to macOS LaunchServices default-handler associations.
3.3. Setting Bareview as the system default application for a file type will affect other applications, including Finder. You can revert this at any time through macOS settings or by re-associating the file type.
4.1. You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to read any file you open with Bareview.
4.2. You are responsible for any configuration changes you make to your system or your terminal in the course of installing or integrating Bareview.
4.3. You must not use the Service in violation of applicable law.
5.1. Bareview runs inside the macOS App Sandbox with read-only access to files that you explicitly open (entitlement com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-only). It cannot modify, write, or delete file contents.
5.2. Bareview does not transmit, upload, share, or back up file contents. All rendering happens locally on your device.
6.1. Bareview and its original code, branding, website, and documentation are owned by Arbiter Technologies Ltd. and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
6.2. Bareview uses third-party open-source components, including the Textual Swift Markdown package by Guille Gonzalez (github.com/gonzalezreal/textual). Third-party components remain subject to their respective licenses.
6.3. You may not copy, modify, distribute, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service except as permitted by applicable law.
7.1. The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
7.2. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or compatible with every Markdown variant, file, terminal, or version of macOS.
7.3. We do not warrant that the optional integration instructions will work in every environment or that they will remain compatible with future versions of third-party tools.
8.1. Bareview is provided to you free of charge. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Arbiter Technologies Ltd., its directors, employees, or contributors 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 Service or the use or other dealings in the Service, including but not limited to:
(a) Any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages
(b) Incompatibility with files, Markdown variants, terminals, or other applications
(c) Consequences of configuration changes you make to your system or terminal, including changes to default-application associations
(d) Misrendered, truncated, or otherwise inaccurate display of file contents
(e) Any damages arising from the use or inability to use the Service
8.2. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any non-waivable consumer rights granted by the laws of your country of residence.
9.1. You may stop using the Service at any time by deleting the app from your device.
9.2. We may suspend or discontinue the website, the download, or any documentation at any time. This does not affect any non-excludable rights you may have in a copy of the app that you have already lawfully downloaded.
9.3. Sections 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11 survive termination or discontinuation.
10.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Bulgaria, without regard to its conflict of law rules.
10.2. If you are a consumer in the European Union, you retain any mandatory consumer protection rights granted by the laws of your country of residence.
10.3. Subject to mandatory consumer law, disputes arising from these Terms shall be submitted to the competent courts of Bulgaria.
10.4. The European Commission provides an online dispute resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, communicated through the website at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the updated Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
Arbiter Technologies Ltd. (UIC 207164164)
Prof. Krastyo Mirski Str., Bl. 10, Ent. A, Apt. 8, Sofia 1407, Bulgaria
Email: support@arbt.tech