The terms for The Tape Bell

These terms cover the tapebell.com website and The Tape Bell desktop app for macOS ("the app"). By using either, you agree to them. "We" and "us" mean The Tape Bell. The app also shows these terms when you first set it up, and its LICENSE file carries the same licence in summary.

1. The licence

The app is free. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and run it for your own use and for the members of your household or your friends and relatives, who may view and use your installation. It has no paid tier and you will never be charged for it. The licence does not expire. We can end it only if you break these terms.

Your licence key is issued to you alone. Apart from the people above using your installation, you may not copy, share, publish, resell, sublicense, rent or lend the app or your key. You may not reverse engineer it or get around its licence check, except where the law allows it regardless of this term.

2. No account, and no server of ours

You don't need a tapebell.com account, and you never sign in to tapebell.com to use the app. The app runs on your own Mac. Your settings, watchlist, holdings and alert history stay there. The app connects directly to the services you choose. None of your data, keys or sign-ins passes through any server of ours.

3. Your accounts with other services

The app ships with no market data and no data credentials of its own. To use it, you connect your own accounts with third-party services, such as a brokerage account for US market data or a broker you use. You use your own API keys or sign-ins, under your own agreements with those services. You're responsible for following their terms. That includes any limits on how their market data may be used: data the app fetches with your keys is for your own use, and you may not redistribute it.

We're independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for any provider or broker named on this site or in the app. Their names are used only to say what the app can connect to.

4. Read-only: it never trades

The app reads prices, and, if you connect them, your own account balances, positions and past fills. It never places, changes or cancels an order. It never moves money.

5. Not financial advice

The app is a research, screening and alerting tool. Its signals, alerts and scores are information and education only. They are not investment advice, and not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold anything. We are not a licensed financial adviser or broker. Markets carry risk, and you can lose money. Every investment decision is yours alone.

6. Referral links

Some sign-up links on the Brokers page are referral links. If you open an account through one, we may receive a reward from that broker. This costs you nothing, and it never changes what the app shows you. Each broker's own terms govern its offer.

7. No warranty

The app and the website are provided "as is", as far as the law allows. Market data can be late, missing or wrong. Alerts can be delayed or fail to arrive. A connected service can change or stop working. We don't promise that the app will be accurate, available or suited to any purpose.

8. Limits on liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for trading or investment losses, lost profits, or any indirect or consequential loss arising from the app or the website. Our total liability to you for anything else is limited to S$100. Nothing here limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.

9. Changes

We may update these terms. The date below shows when they last changed. If a change materially affects the licence, we'll say so on this page and in the app's release notes.

10. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Singapore, and the courts of Singapore have jurisdiction.

Contact

Questions about these terms: see the contact page.

Last updated 05 Oct 2026.