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Woodnote — Terms of Service

Last updated: 8 September 2026

Woodnote is made by Engineering Overtones LLC ("we," "us"). These terms are the agreement between you and us for using the Woodnote app and this website. The short version: your music is yours, we claim no ownership of it, and there is no account to create or cancel.

The short version

Agreeing to these terms

By installing or using Woodnote — and in particular by tapping Share — you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use Woodnote.

If you are under 18, you may use Woodnote only with the agreement of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms with you and on your behalf.

Who can use Woodnote

You need to be at least 13 to use Woodnote — or 16 if you live in the European Economic Area, unless the law of your country sets a lower age (never below 13), in which case that age applies. Woodnote is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Using Woodnote

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Woodnote app on devices you own or control, for as long as you follow these terms. We keep all rights in the app itself — its software, name, design, arrangement patterns, and sound library. That is a licence to use Woodnote, not to copy, resell, or redistribute it.

Woodnote is currently free to use. We may change which features are included in the free version, and if we ever introduce paid features we will say what they cost before you buy anything. We will not take away a feature you have already paid for. Purchases are handled by the app store you installed from, under its rules and refund policy.

Your music is yours

You own what you make. Your recordings, your melodies, your chord choices, your finished songs — we claim no ownership of any of it, and we do not use your music to promote Woodnote unless you specifically ask us to.

The one permission we need is a narrow and practical one. When you tap Share, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, reformat, transmit, publicly perform and publicly display your shared song, and to make the previews and images needed to show it — solely to operate the share link you created.

If you create a collaboration link, you additionally grant each person who opens it a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to make their own copy of that song and to edit, adapt and use it, and you grant us the right to pass that licence on so the feature works. You confirm that you have the rights necessary to grant these permissions.

Our licence ends when the shared copy is deleted or expires, and it covers nothing else. Licences already granted to people who opened your link, and copies they have already made or downloaded, are not affected — we cannot retrieve those.

The accompaniment Woodnote arranges around your part is yours to use. We grant you a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, distribute and sell the accompaniment as it appears in your finished song — release it, post it, sell it, give it away. This licence covers the accompaniment as recorded in your song; it does not give you rights in Woodnote's software, arrangement patterns, or sound library themselves.

What you agree to

You are responsible for having the right to record what you record. Woodnote is built for covers as much as originals, and recording a cover for yourself or sending it to a friend is ordinary and fine. But if you publish or distribute a cover more widely, the licensing of the underlying song is your responsibility, not ours.

You agree not to use Woodnote to:

If content shared through Woodnote breaks these terms or harms someone, we may remove it and refuse to serve or accept further uploads from a source we can identify from the technical information available to us at the time. If you believe something shared through Woodnote is unlawful or infringes your rights, please tell us — see Copyright and content complaints.

Sharing a song creates a link that anyone holding it can open. There is no password and no access list — treat a share link as public, and send it only to people you mean to send it to.

A collaboration link additionally lets whoever opens it make their own copy of the song and keep editing it. A collaboration link uploads your isolated vocal recording as well as the finished mix, because that is what makes further editing possible. That copy is theirs to change; you will not see their edits and they will not see yours.

Shared content expires automatically within 30 days. You can delete it sooner from the app — we remove the shared copy on a best-effort basis, with the 30-day expiry as the backstop — or by emailing privacy@engineeringovertones.com with the share link. The details are in our Privacy Policy. If you are under 18 and want something you shared taken down, use either route and we will remove it.

Woodnote is not a backup service

Your songs live on your device. Uninstalling the app, losing the device, or clearing its data will delete them, and we cannot recover them for you — we do not hold a copy of anything you have not shared. Export or share anything you would be upset to lose. This is worth reading twice; it is the single most common way people lose work.

Copyright and content complaints

We respond to copyright notices and to reports of illegal content. The procedure, our designated agent, and how to send a counter-notice are on our Copyright and content complaints page.

Changes to the app and the service

Woodnote is actively developed. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may change how the service works. We may also suspend or discontinue the service, in whole or in part. If we plan to shut the sharing service down entirely, we will give at least 30 days' notice on this website so you can export anything you still need.

Other companies' services

Woodnote lets you send a finished song to other apps — a messaging app, Instagram, YouTube, or anything else on your device that accepts what you are sending. Once your song reaches another company's service, that company's terms and privacy policy govern it, not ours, and what happens to it there is outside our control.

The same applies to the app store you installed Woodnote from, and to the infrastructure providers named in our Privacy Policy. We, not the app store, are responsible for Woodnote and for supporting it. You must also comply with any applicable third-party terms when using Woodnote.

If you installed Woodnote from the Apple App Store

These terms are between you and Engineering Overtones LLC only, not with Apple, and we — not Apple — are solely responsible for Woodnote and its content. Your licence is a non-transferable licence to use Woodnote on any Apple-branded product you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for Woodnote. If Woodnote fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. We, not Apple, are responsible for any claim that Woodnote fails to conform to legal or regulatory requirements, for any product liability claim, and for any claim under consumer protection or similar law. We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging any third-party claim that Woodnote infringes intellectual property rights. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, on your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

Woodnote is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or trade usage. We do not promise that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of data loss, or that the musical results will suit any particular purpose.

Some places do not allow these exclusions. Where that is the case, they apply to the fullest extent the law permits, and nothing here limits rights you have that cannot be waived.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and regardless of the theory of liability — whether contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute or otherwise, and even if we have been advised of the possibility — Engineering Overtones LLC and its members, officers, employees and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill, business interruption, lost recordings, or lost data, arising out of or relating to Woodnote.

Our total liability to you, in the aggregate for all claims relating to Woodnote, is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred US dollars. These limits apply even if a remedy in these terms is found to have failed its essential purpose.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for willful injury, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded under the law that applies to you. If you are a consumer, these limits apply only to the extent permitted by the law of the country where you live, and they do not affect your statutory rights.

If you cause us a problem

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Engineering Overtones LLC and its members, officers and contractors from any third-party claim, demand or proceeding — including reasonable legal fees — arising out of content you record, create or share through Woodnote, your breach of these terms, or your violation of anyone's rights. We will tell you promptly about any such claim, and you may not settle it in a way that imposes any obligation on us without our consent. This does not apply where the law where you live does not permit it, and nothing here requires you to indemnify us for our own wrongdoing.

Ending these terms

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting the app. We may end it if you break these terms. The sections that should sensibly outlive the agreement — ownership and licences, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and governing law — survive it.

Governing law and where disputes go

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Sacramento County, California.

If you are a consumer, this does not override the law of the country where you live. You keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of that country, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of the country where you live if the law there gives you that right.

General

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we will update this page and its "last updated" date. If the change is significant, we will say so on this website before it takes effect. Continuing to use Woodnote after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Who we are

Woodnote is made by Engineering Overtones LLC, a California limited liability company (2108 N St, Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816, USA).

Contact: support@engineeringovertones.com