Terms and license

A new app

Afinar is new and still changing, so expect rough edges, features that move, and the occasional thing that breaks. If something goes wrong, write to support@afinar.app. It is read by the person who made Afinar.

Ways to use Afinar

The free recorder. Afinar’s recorder is free for everyone. Download it, record yourself playing along with music from the apps on your Mac, and keep your recordings. There’s no trial, no card, and nothing to buy.

A free first year. If you applied to the Afinar beta, signed up at Guitar Summit 2026, or got a personal invitation before Afinar’s public release in October 2026, your first year of the full Afinar is free. It’s personal to you, and it runs for the period stated in the personal link we send you.

Paid plans aren’t on sale. Before they are, this page will say what they cost, who handles the payment, how you cancel, and what happens when a paid year ends. Nothing on this page commits you to paying for anything.

Using it on your Macs

Use Afinar on the Macs you own. There’s no device count and nothing to deactivate.

Copying, reverse engineering and AI tools

Afinar’s code, its sound models and its bundled tones belong to Afinar LLC or to those who license them to us. They are protected by copyright, and the parts that aren’t public are our trade secrets. Using Afinar doesn’t give you any right to them beyond using the app.

You may not do any of these things, try to, or have anyone or anything do them for you:

• decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer Afinar;
• extract, decrypt or copy Afinar’s code, models or bundled tones, or get around the encryption or other protection on them;
• use Afinar’s code, models, bundled tones or files to build, train or improve another app, model or service.

These rules apply however it’s done, by hand or with software. Using an AI model, assistant, agent or any other automated tool to do any of these things breaks these terms, the same as doing it yourself. You’re responsible for the tools you run on Afinar and for what they do.

None of this covers what you make with Afinar. Your recordings, videos and tones are yours, and you can use them with any tool you like. Asking an AI assistant how to use Afinar is fine too.

We reserve our rights in Afinar’s code, models and tones against text and data mining, including for training AI models. In the European Union this is an express reservation under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790.

If the law that applies to you gives you a right to do something on this list, and a contract can’t take that right away, these terms don’t try to. For example, in the European Union you may observe, study and test how Afinar works while using it normally, and decompile it as far as you need to make another program work with it. Open-source parts of Afinar keep their own licenses, listed in the app’s About window, and this section doesn’t limit what those licenses allow.

If you break this section, we will enforce it:

• your license to use Afinar ends at once, and you must delete Afinar and anything you took from it;
• we can ask a court to stop you, and to order you to hand over or destroy what you took;
• you are responsible for the harm it causes us.

Where the law allows, whoever loses a court case about this section pays the other side’s reasonable legal fees and costs.

Whatever happens, everything you made with Afinar stays yours.

What stays yours

Everything you make with Afinar belongs to you: your recordings, your videos, and the tones you add. It all lives on your Mac. We claim nothing over any of it, and your recordings and scores are never sent to us.

Afinar sends us how you use it and any errors or crashes only if you agree when you first open it, and you can change your mind in Settings. It never sends your audio, your recordings, your scores, or your song titles. The privacy page sets out exactly what it collects.

Other people’s material

Afinar lets you practice with music, scores, and lessons that belong to other people, including music playing in other apps on your Mac. Some services don’t allow their music to be recorded, and following their rules is up to you. You’re responsible for having the right to use what you bring in. Afinar doesn’t supply music, and it doesn’t give you any rights over material that isn’t yours.

What we don’t promise

Afinar is provided as it is, and while Afinar is new, that matters more than usual. It’s built carefully and tested hard, but no software is perfect, and we can’t promise it will suit every purpose or work with every audio interface. Keep your own copies of anything you care about.

Nothing here takes away the rights you have as a consumer under the laws of the country where you live.

Ending

You can stop using Afinar whenever you like. We can end or change the beta, including a free beta year, if we have to stop offering Afinar or if someone uses it to break the law or harm others. Your license also ends if you break the section on copying, reverse engineering and AI tools. If we ever end your access, everything you made stays on your Mac and stays yours.

Changes to these terms

We’ll post any change on this page with the date it takes effect. A change that affects a paid plan won’t apply to a year you’ve already paid for.

Which law

New Mexico law and US federal law apply. If you’re a consumer, you keep the protection of the consumer laws of the country where you live, you can bring a case in the courts where you live, and we can only bring one against you there. Otherwise, the state and federal courts in New Mexico decide.

If a court finds that part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies.

Last updated 10 November 2026.