Terms of Service

Last updated: 23 September 2026

These terms govern your use of Inkstone, a Markdown editor for macOS (the "App"), and its website (the "Site"). The App and the Site are published by RecurseChat LLC ("we", "us"). By downloading, installing or using the App you agree to these terms. Questions may be sent to support@inkstone.md.

Summary

• You may try the App free for 14 days. After that, a licence is a single payment of the price shown at purchase, with no subscription.
• A licence lets you use the App for as long as you like, on the number of Macs stated at purchase.
• Your documents are yours. The App edits files on your Mac and claims no rights in them.
• The App is provided as is. Keep backups of work that matters.

Trial

You may use the full App for 14 days from first launch without a licence, to decide whether it suits you. When the trial ends, the App asks you to buy a licence. Continued use after the trial requires one.

Licence

When you buy a licence, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, perpetual licence to install and use the App on up to five Macs that you own or control, for personal or commercial work. A licence purchased by an organisation may be assigned to one person at a time.

You may not:

• share, resell or publish your licence key, or use it to activate the App for other people;
• remove or work around the App's licence checks;
• decompile or reverse engineer the App, except where applicable law permits this despite this restriction;
• distribute the App or modified copies of it.

A licence covers the App version you bought and the updates we release for it. We intend to keep improving the App, but we do not promise any particular feature, update or length of support.

Purchases, taxes and refunds

Purchases on the Site are processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as merchant of record and handles payment, sales tax and invoicing under the Lemon Squeezy buyer terms. Prices are shown at checkout in your currency, including applicable tax.

If Inkstone isn't right for you, email support@inkstone.md within 14 days of purchase for a full refund. No questions asked. A refunded licence is deactivated. Nothing in these terms limits a right to a refund or withdrawal that applicable consumer law gives you.

Mac App Store

If you obtained the App from the Mac App Store, Apple's Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement governs your licence, and purchases and refunds are handled by Apple. These terms also apply to the extent they do not conflict with Apple's. Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for the App; contact us instead.

Your content

The App reads and writes files in folders you choose. You own your documents and everything you write, and we receive no rights in them. How the App handles information is described in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for your files and for keeping backups of them. The App keeps local version history of documents you edit, but version history is not a backup: it lives on the same disk and expires on the schedule you set.

Third-party components and services

The App includes open-source components, each provided under its own licence, which governs that component. Content your documents reference on the web, and services you use to sync your files, such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox or git, are provided by others under their own terms; we are not responsible for them.

Updates

The App checks for updates through the Sparkle framework, and you may turn automatic checks off in Settings. An update may change or remove features. Where an update materially reduces what your licence gives you, we will say so in its release notes.

Disclaimer

The App and the Site are provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be error free, or that it will never lose or corrupt data.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits or revenue, arising from your use of or inability to use the App or the Site. Our total liability for any claim relating to the App is limited to the amount you paid for your licence.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions or limits, so parts of these two sections may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Termination

Your licence ends automatically if you materially breach these terms, for example by sharing your licence key publicly. You may stop using the App at any time. The sections on your content, the disclaimer, limitation of liability and governing law continue to apply after termination.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located there, unless the consumer law of the country where you live gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Changes

We may revise these terms. The date at the top records the current version, and material changes are noted in the release notes of the App version that introduces them. A change does not take away a licence you have already bought.