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These terms cover your use of the MaestroNote apps for Mac, iPad, and iPhone and the maestronote.app website. MaestroNote is a free beta distributed through Apple TestFlight, so read them together with Apple’s terms.

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The short version

Free, and still a beta

MaestroNote is free. It’s pre-release software: it has bugs, features change, and data can be lost.

Work with copies

Keep your original PDFs and work with copies, as the beta notes ask. Importing never changes the original, but a beta can still lose what’s inside the app.

Your scores, your rights

You need the right to use every score you import. Your annotations and compositions belong to you.

1. Acceptance and scope

By downloading, installing, or using MaestroNote, or by using maestronote.app, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the app or the website. They apply to the MaestroNote apps for Mac (macOS), iPad (iPadOS), and iPhone (iOS), to the website, and to the beta program.

2. License and Apple terms

We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use MaestroNote on your Apple devices for your own lawful purposes. MaestroNote is free to use. You may not copy, rent, sell, redistribute, or reverse engineer the app, except where applicable law expressly allows it.

MaestroNote is currently distributed only through Apple TestFlight, so the Apple TestFlight Terms apply to your use of the beta. If it is released on the App Store, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement will apply unless a valid custom agreement replaces it. Mandatory platform and consumer-protection rules prevail if they conflict with these terms.

3. Beta software

MaestroNote is in beta. It may contain bugs, stop working, or lose data. Features, supported devices, and behavior can change from one build to the next, and TestFlight builds are time-limited.

The beta notes ask testers to work with copies of their PDFs and keep the originals. Please do. Importing a score creates a copy in the app and leaves the original untouched, but keep your own backup of anything you can’t replace.

Version 0.2.0 started a new, empty library that syncs through a new iCloud container. Documents from earlier betas stay on the device but don’t appear in the new library. Changes like this can happen again during the beta.

4. Devices and features

The current beta builds need macOS 14 or later, or iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. These requirements may change.

Not everything works the same on every device. Writing on a score with ink needs an iPad with Apple Pencil. On Mac and iPhone, Play is for reading. In Analyze, you can select passages with a finger or a mouse.

In Compose, you write sketches with Apple Pencil on iPad or with a finger on iPhone. On Mac, you can arrange a project’s desk and read its sketches, but not write them.

5. Your scores and content

You’re responsible for having the rights to the scores you import, including copyright. MaestroNote doesn’t check what you import.

You own your annotations and your compositions. We don’t claim any rights over them, and we don’t receive them: they stay on your devices and in your private iCloud account.

Deleting a document in the app removes the app’s copy, along with its annotations and analysis. It doesn’t delete the original file you imported. Our Privacy Policy explains how MaestroNote and this website handle data.

6. Acceptable use

  • Don’t use MaestroNote to infringe copyright or anyone else’s rights, for example by importing or sharing scores you have no right to use.
  • Don’t break the law or use MaestroNote to harm, deceive, or harass anyone.
  • Don’t try to bypass the protections of the TestFlight beta, or to disrupt or overload the website.

7. Intellectual property and feedback

MaestroNote, including its software, design, website, name, and original materials, is protected by intellectual property laws. These terms don’t transfer ownership of any of it to you.

If you send feedback or suggestions, through TestFlight or by email, you allow us to use them to improve MaestroNote without restriction, obligation, or payment. That doesn’t give us any rights over your annotations or compositions.

8. No warranty and limited liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MaestroNote and the website are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties we haven’t expressly stated. We don’t guarantee that the beta will be error-free, uninterrupted, compatible with every device, or free of data loss.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for loss of data, scores, annotations, or work that results from using or being unable to use MaestroNote. Nothing in these terms limits any right or liability that can’t lawfully be excluded, including your rights as a consumer.

9. Suspension and ending use

You can stop using MaestroNote at any time. We may change, suspend, or end the beta, any feature, or access to the website or to a TestFlight build when that’s reasonably necessary, for example to fix a problem, protect users, comply with the law, or respond to a serious or repeated breach of these terms. Provisions that by their nature should continue will survive.

10. Changes and contact

We may update these terms as MaestroNote evolves, for example when the beta ends. The date at the top shows the current version. If you keep using MaestroNote after an update takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

For questions about these terms, email hola@maestronote.app.