Licenses
What Leike is built on.
Leike uses AI models by Desert Ant Labs and a number of open source components. This page lists what is in the app, who made it and under which license.
Overview
| Part | License | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Leike itself | Proprietary | © 2026 Hello Labs BV. All rights reserved. |
| AI software and models | Desert Ant Labs Source-Available License 1.0 | May be built into an app. Free up to 100,000 active devices per month, per model. |
| Source models | CC BY 4.0, Apache 2.0, MIT | The Desert Ant Labs models are based on these. Credits below. |
| Open source libraries | MIT, Apache 2.0 | Free to use with credit and the license text. |
| Website fonts | SIL Open Font License 1.1 | Free to use, commercially too. |
Leike
Leike is © 2026 Hello Labs BV. All rights reserved. The test version is free for testers and is not meant to be passed on.
Once Leike is in the Mac App Store, Apple's standard license for apps applies there (Licensed Application End User License Agreement).
What you make with Leike is yours: your episodes, transcripts, show notes and clips.
AI by Desert Ant Labs
Transcription, speakers, filler words, speech enhancement, clips and titles run on Desert Ant Core 4.3.0 by Desert Ant Labs B.V., under the Desert Ant Labs Source-Available License 1.0. That license allows building it into an app, is free up to 100,000 active devices per month per model, and forbids using the models or their output to train a competing model.
The Desert Ant Labs models are adapted from these source models:
| Model | Does in Leike | Based on | Source license |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voz | Transcription | Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3, NVIDIA | CC BY 4.0 |
| Who | Speaker recognition | speaker-diarization-community-1, pyannoteAI | CC BY 4.0 |
| Uhm | Finding filler words | DistilHuBERT, NTU; HuBERT base, Meta | Apache 2.0 |
| Clear | Speech enhancement | DeepFilterNet 3, Hendrik Schröter | MIT |
| Clips | Picking moments | XLM-RoBERTa base, Facebook AI | MIT |
| Title | Titles and description | Granite 4.0 350M, IBM | Apache 2.0 |
Training data
Desert Ant Labs used these datasets for Uhm and Who. The data itself is not in Leike.
- LibriSpeech, Panayotov, Chen, Povey and Khudanpur · CC BY 4.0
- AMI Meeting Corpus, University of Edinburgh CSTR · CC BY 4.0
- ICSI Meeting Corpus, International Computer Science Institute · CC BY 4.0
- MUSAN, Snyder, Chen and Povey · CC BY 4.0
- CHiME-6, CHiME challenge · CC BY-SA 4.0
- AliMeeting, Alibaba DAMO Academy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- AISHELL-4, Beijing Shell Shell Technology · CC BY-SA 4.0
Open source in the app
These libraries are in Leike 0.1.0, with the version that is included.
| Component | Version | By | License | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLX Swift | 0.32.3 | ml-explore (Apple) | MIT | Runs the title model on the GPU |
| MLX and MLX C | in MLX Swift | ml-explore (Apple) | MIT | Compute core under MLX Swift |
| MLX Swift LM | 3.32.3 | ml-explore (Apple) | MIT | Text generation |
| metal-cpp | in MLX Swift | Apple | Apache 2.0 | GPU access |
| {fmt} | in MLX Swift | Victor Zverovich | MIT | Text formatting |
| JSON for Modern C++ | in MLX Swift | Niels Lohmann | MIT | Reading model settings |
| swift-transformers | 1.4.0 | Hugging Face | Apache 2.0 | Tokenizer for the title model |
| swift-huggingface | 1.0.0 | Hugging Face | Apache 2.0 | Downloading models |
| swift-jinja | 3.0.0 | Hugging Face | Apache 2.0 | Language model templates |
| EventSource | 1.6.0 | Mattt | MIT | Networking for swift-huggingface |
| Swift Crypto | 4.5.2 | Apple | Apache 2.0 | Verifying downloads |
| Swift ASN.1 | 1.7.4 | Apple | Apache 2.0 | Used by Swift Crypto |
| Swift Collections | 1.7.5 | Apple | Apache 2.0 | Data structures |
| Swift Numerics | 1.1.1 | Apple | Apache 2.0 | Audio maths |
| yyjson | 0.13.0 | YaoYuan | MIT | Fast JSON reading |
Only used while building, not in the app: swift-syntax 603.0.2 (Swift project, Apache 2.0).
Apart from these, Leike only uses parts of macOS itself, such as AVFoundation, Vision and SwiftUI.
On this website
- Funnel Display, NORD ID and Kristian Möller · SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Instrument Sans, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Jordan Egstad · SIL Open Font License 1.1
- DM Mono, Colophon Foundry · SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Material Symbols Rounded, Google · Apache License 2.0 (the icons on the home page)
The site itself is plain HTML and CSS, with no frameworks or scripts.