Terms of Service

These terms are the agreement between you and the person who operates Rechordly. They cover what you may do with the service, who owns what you make with it, how payment and cancellation work, and where the limits of our responsibility sit. They are written to be read, not to be impenetrable.

Effective: 16 August 2026
Last updated: 16 August 2026
Version: 2.0

1This agreement

Rechordly is operated by Kushagra Srivastava, a sole proprietor (unincorporated) based in New Delhi, India, trading as Rechordly. Rechordly is not an incorporated company, so your contract is with that person directly. In these terms "we", "us" and "our" mean him, and "you" means you.

By using Rechordly, joining the waitlist, creating an account, or buying a plan, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. Our Privacy Policy is part of this agreement and explains how we handle personal data.

Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer that cannot be waived under the law where you live. Where a clause here conflicts with such a right, the right wins and the rest of these terms continue to apply. This matters most in sections 16, 13 and 21.

2Definitions

Service: The Rechordly website, the Studio application, the harmonization engine, the waitlist, and any related email or support we provide.
Studio: The piano roll editor, playback, chord track, MIDI import and export, and the harmonization levels, reached at /app.
Engine: The deterministic reharmonization code that turns a melody into chord progressions. It runs in your browser.
Input: Anything you put into the Service: melodies you draw, MIDI files you import, key selections, settings.
Output: What the Engine produces from your Input: chord progressions, roman numeral analyses, voicings, and exported MIDI files.
Merchant of record: Lemon Squeezy, the company that sells paid plans to you as an authorised reseller, takes the payment, handles tax, and issues your invoice.

3Eligibility and age

You must be at least 18 years old to join the waitlist, create an account, or buy a plan. If you are under 18, do not do any of those things.

We set 18 rather than a lower age because Indian law, which governs us, treats everyone under 18 as a child and requires verifiable parental consent before their data is processed, which we are not equipped to verify. The reasoning is set out in our Privacy Policy.

You must also have the legal capacity to enter a contract, and you must not be barred from using the Service under section 20. If you are agreeing to these terms for an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" means that organisation.

4Your account

Give accurate information when you sign up, and keep it current. In practice that means an email address you can actually receive mail at, since that is how we reach you about your account and your billing.
Keep your credentials to yourself. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, except to the extent it results from our own failure.
One account per person. Do not share an account, resell access to one, or create accounts to work around a limit, a ban, or a free-tier restriction.
Tell us at hello@mail.rechordly.com as soon as you suspect unauthorised access.
You can delete your account at any time. See section 18.

5Access, early access, and what is finished

We would rather tell you what the Service is than let you discover it after paying.

The Studio is not yet open to the public. Access is currently restricted while the product is finished. Having an account or a waitlist entry does not by itself give you access to the Studio.
Rechordly is pre-release software. It may contain bugs, may be interrupted, and may change substantially. Do not treat it as your only copy of anything.
Not every harmonization level is complete. Levels we present as previews are exactly that: illustrative, curated output rather than finished engine work. We label them in the interface and we will not charge you for a level as though it were finished when it is not.
Nothing you make is saved by us. The Engine runs in your browser and we store no projects, so closing the tab loses your work. Export to MIDI to keep it. This is a deliberate design consequence of never uploading your music, not an oversight.

6The waitlist and the founding-member offer

Joining the waitlist is free, optional, and creates no obligation on either side beyond what this section says. It is not a purchase, not a reservation of a licence, and not a guarantee of access on any particular date.

6.1 Offer terms

What the offer is: The first 50 confirmed waitlist signups each receive a code for 80% off the Pro plan: $1.8 per month instead of $9 per month.
How a spot is allocated: Automatically, in order of confirmed signup, until the spots run out. The allocation is atomic, so two people cannot take the same spot. Your code arrives in your confirmation email.
How long the price lasts: For as long as you stay continuously subscribed to Pro at that price. If you cancel and later resubscribe, the discount does not come back.
Redemption: Checkout does not exist yet. When it opens, redeem the code there. We will email founding members when that happens. If we cannot deliver the offer at all, we will tell you rather than quietly drop it.
Conditions: The code is personal to you, non-transferable, has no cash value, cannot be combined with another discount, and cannot be resold. One per person. We may void a code obtained through duplicate signups, automated submissions, or misrepresentation.
If you unsubscribe or delete your data: You forfeit the code, because delivering it requires us to hold your email address. That is your choice to make and we will not talk you out of it.
Changes to the offer: We may change or withdraw the offer for people who have not yet signed up. We will not retroactively worsen it for someone who already holds a code. If the 50 spots run out slightly before the advertising catches up, we will honour the offer for anyone who reasonably relied on it rather than argue about the count.

7Acceptable use

Use Rechordly to make music. Do not do any of the following.

7.1 Against the Service

Attack, overload, disrupt or probe the Service, its infrastructure, or its providers, including denial of service attempts and automated traffic beyond normal use.
Circumvent, disable or defeat any access control, rate limit, paywall, tier restriction, or security measure, or attempt to reach any part of the Service you have not been granted access to.
Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Service except to the extent the law expressly permits it and forbids us from restricting it. Note that the Engine runs in your browser and its compiled code is therefore visible to you; being able to read it is not permission to copy, republish or build a competing product from it.
Scrape, crawl or bulk-extract the Service, or use it to build a dataset, a training corpus, or a competing service.
Resell, sublicense, rent, or provide the Service to third parties as though it were your own, or run it as a service bureau.
Remove, obscure or alter any proprietary notice, or misrepresent Rechordly's output as coming from something else in order to mislead.

7.2 Against other people

Upload or import material you do not have the right to use, or use the Service to infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, moral rights, privacy, or other rights.
Submit anyone else's personal data to our forms, including signing someone else up to the waitlist.
Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or organisation.
Use the Service to send unsolicited messages, or in connection with fraud, malware, or any unlawful activity.

We may investigate suspected breaches and act under section 18. Where a breach is also a crime, we may report it.

8Your melodies and your output

8.1 Your Input stays yours

You keep every right you already had in your Input. We claim no licence over it, and we could not exercise one if we wanted to: your melodies never leave your browser, so we do not receive them. See our Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for having the right to use whatever you import. If you import a MIDI file of someone else's song, what you then do with the result is on you.

8.2 Your Output is yours to use

You may use the chord progressions Rechordly generates for any purpose, including commercially. Release the music, sell it, license it, put it in a film, teach with it. No attribution required, no royalty owed, no revenue share, and no permission needed. We assert no ownership over the Output and we grant you whatever rights we might otherwise hold in it, worldwide and irrevocably.

8.3 What we cannot promise about the Output

This part is unusual enough to spell out, because it is the clause most likely to matter to you commercially.

Output is not exclusive to you. The Engine is deterministic: the same melody, key and settings produce the same chords for everyone. Two people who write the same melody will get the same progression. You are not receiving anything unique.
Output may resemble existing music. Rechordly produces conventional harmony from a vocabulary that has been in common use for centuries. A progression it generates will very often be identical to one used in thousands of existing songs. That is the tool working correctly, not a defect.
We give no warranty that your Output is free of third-party rights. We do not and cannot check the Output against existing works. While chord progressions as such are generally not protected by copyright in most jurisdictions, we are not giving you legal advice on that and the position varies by country and by how much of a work you reproduce. If you are releasing music commercially and are unsure, take your own advice.
We do not warrant that the Output is musically correct, idiomatic, or suitable for your purpose. It is a suggestion from a piece of software. Your ears decide.

9Our intellectual property

The Service itself is ours, including the harmonization engine and its cost models, the source code, the interface, the design, the copy on this site, the name "Rechordly", the logo, and the wordmark. It is protected by copyright and other laws.

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service as intended and in accordance with these terms. Nothing more is granted, by implication or otherwise. That licence ends when your access does.

10Feedback

If you send us a suggestion, bug report, or feature request, we may use it freely to improve Rechordly without owing you compensation, attribution or confidentiality. That is not us taking your ideas: it is so that a good suggestion from one user can be built for everyone without a licensing question attached. Do not send us anything you want to keep confidential or patent. This does not affect your rights in any music you make.

11Third-party services

Rechordly runs on third-party infrastructure for authentication, hosting, the database, payments, and email. Those providers are listed in our Privacy Policy. When you buy a plan you also enter into a transaction with our merchant of record under its own buyer terms. We are not responsible for those services failing, and an outage at a provider is covered by section 15. Where their failure means we did not deliver something you paid for, section 13 is how we put it right.

12Plans, prices, and billing

Free tier: Free to use, with a limited set of harmonization levels. We may change what the free tier includes, with notice, and we may apply reasonable fair-use limits to stop one person degrading the service for everyone. We will not start charging you for something you are currently getting free without telling you first and letting you decline.
Paid plans: Pro is a recurring subscription. A lifetime option may be offered. The price shown at checkout is the price that applies to you, and $9 per month is the current standard Pro price.
Who you pay: Our merchant of record, which sells the plan to you as an authorised reseller, collects the payment, and handles any applicable sales tax, VAT or GST. Its buyer terms govern the payment transaction itself. We never see or store your card details.
Taxes: Prices are exclusive of tax unless stated otherwise at checkout. The merchant of record calculates, collects and remits what is due for your location.
Automatic renewal: Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current price for your plan, until you cancel. You authorise that recurring charge when you subscribe. You will be told before a renewal in any jurisdiction whose law requires advance notice, and we will honour that requirement wherever you are.
Price changes: We may change prices. An increase never applies to a period you have already paid for, and we will email you at least 30 days before it takes effect so you can cancel first. A founding-member price is locked as described in section 6.
Failed payments: If a payment fails, we or the merchant of record may retry it. If it keeps failing we may downgrade you to the free tier or suspend paid features until it is resolved. We will not lock you out of the free tier over an unpaid subscription.
Currency: Prices are in US dollars unless shown otherwise. Your bank's conversion rate and any foreign transaction fee are between you and your bank.

13Cancellation, refunds, and withdrawal

13.1 Cancelling

Cancel at any time, from your billing portal or by emailing hello@mail.rechordly.com. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep Pro access until the end of the period you have already paid for, and then move to the free tier. We do not charge a cancellation fee and we will not make you call anyone or sit through a retention flow.

13.2 Our refund commitment

These are commitments we make voluntarily. They sit on top of any statutory right you have under 13.3 or 13.4, and they never reduce one.

First purchase: 14 days, no reason needed. If you are unhappy with your first payment on a plan, ask within 14 days of that payment and we will refund it in full. This covers the lifetime plan too.
Renewals: 14 days, if you have not used the new period. If a subscription renews and you did not want it to, tell us within 14 days of the charge and we will refund it, as long as you have not substantially used Pro since it renewed. This exists for the case where you meant to cancel and forgot. It is not a way to use a full period and then reclaim the money.
If a paid feature does not work as described, tell us. We will fix it, or refund you, at your choice. This is not time-limited and does not depend on either window above.
If we discontinue a paid feature you are paying for, we will refund the unused portion of your current period pro rata.

Refunds are processed by our merchant of record back to your original payment method, and can take a few business days to appear. We may decline a refund where there is clear evidence of abuse, such as repeated purchase-and-refund cycles or a pattern of reclaiming every renewal. If we decline, we will tell you why.

13.3 Consumers in the EU, EEA and UK

You have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days without giving a reason. Because Rechordly is a continuously provided digital service, we do not ask you to waive that right in order to get immediate access, and we do not treat immediate access as forfeiting it. If you withdraw after using the Service during those 14 days, we may retain a proportionate amount for what you actually used, and will refund the rest.

To withdraw, email hello@mail.rechordly.com saying you are withdrawing. You may use the model withdrawal form from the Consumer Rights Directive, but you do not have to: a plain sentence is enough. Where the law requires an online withdrawal function, one is provided in your billing portal, and until it is, this email route has the same effect and we will act on it immediately.

Your statutory rights on faulty or misdescribed digital content, including any right to repair, replacement, price reduction or a refund, are unaffected by anything in these terms.

13.4 Consumers elsewhere

If your local law gives you a cooling-off period, a guarantee, or a refund right that is better than section 13.2, that law applies and we will honour it. Indian consumers retain every right under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

14Changes to the service

Rechordly is under active development. Features will be added, changed, and sometimes removed. We may modify or discontinue any part of the Service.

Two commitments limit that:

If we make a change that materially reduces what a paid plan provides, we will email paying users beforehand, and you may cancel and receive a pro rata refund of the unused portion of your current period.
If we discontinue Rechordly entirely, we will give paying users at least 30 days notice where we reasonably can, refund unused prepaid amounts, and keep MIDI export working until the end so you can take your work with you.

15Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", and we disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment.

Specifically, we do not warrant that:

the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, or error free;
defects will be corrected, or that the Service is free of harmful components;
the Output will be accurate, musically appropriate, original, or suitable for your purpose, as set out in section 8.3;
the Service will remain compatible with your browser, device, or other software;
any particular feature or harmonization level will ship.

We are a one-person operation, and we say that here rather than imply the support capacity of a large company. We will do our best, promptly and in good faith, but there is no contractual uptime guarantee, no service level agreement, and no guaranteed response time unless we have agreed one with you in writing.

These disclaimers do not apply to the extent your local consumer law prohibits them. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and your statutory rights are untouched.

16Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows:

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost goodwill, lost opportunities, or the cost of substitute services.
We are not liable for loss of your work. Nothing you make is stored by us, and you can export it at any time. Keep your own copies.
Our total aggregate liability for all claims connected to Rechordly is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or 50 US dollars.

These limits do not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be limited. That includes death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, our own gross negligence or wilful misconduct, and anything else your local law protects. Where a jurisdiction does not permit some of these exclusions, they apply to you only as far as that jurisdiction allows.

You accept that these limits are a reasonable allocation of risk given that the Service is offered free or at a low subscription price, and that we could not offer it at all on unlimited liability. If you need a higher liability ceiling, contact us before relying on Rechordly for anything commercially critical.

17Your indemnity to us

If someone brings a claim against us because of how youused Rechordly, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, including legal fees. This applies to claims arising from your breach of these terms, your infringement of a third party's rights, material you imported that you had no right to use, or your unlawful use of the Service.

It does not apply to anything caused by us, and it does not apply at all if you are a consumer and your local law prohibits such an indemnity. We will tell you promptly about any claim we want covered, let you participate in the defence, and not settle it in a way that admits fault on your behalf without your agreement.

18Suspension and termination

18.1 By you

Stop using Rechordly whenever you like. To delete your account, email hello@mail.rechordly.com and we will delete it and the data described in our Privacy Policy. If you have an active paid plan, cancel it first or tell us to, so it does not renew.

18.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these terms, if your use puts the Service or other users at risk, if we are legally required to, or if you have not paid.

We will tell you why, and where the breach is fixable we will give you a reasonable chance to fix it before terminating, unless doing so would be unlawful or would prolong harm to someone.
If we terminate a paid plan for a reason that is not your breach, we will refund the unused portion pro rata.
If we terminate for your breach, you are not entitled to a refund, except where consumer law says otherwise.
You may dispute a suspension by emailing hello@mail.rechordly.com. We will look at it again properly.

Sections that should outlive the agreement do: 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 23 survive termination.

19Intellectual property complaints

Rechordly does not host user content, so there is usually nothing for us to take down. If you nonetheless believe something on the Service infringes your intellectual property, email hello@mail.rechordly.com with:

what you own, and evidence that you own it;
exactly where the infringing material is (a URL);
your contact details;
a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised, and that the information you have given is accurate.

We will review it promptly, remove or disable anything genuinely infringing, and tell you what we did. We will also tell the person who posted it, if there is one, and give them a chance to respond. We ignore complaints that are transparently attempts to suppress lawful criticism or competition.

20Export controls and sanctions

You may not use Rechordly if you are located in, ordinarily resident in, or acting for someone in a country or territory subject to comprehensive trade sanctions applicable to us, or if you are on a relevant restricted or denied party list. You confirm none of that applies to you, and you agree not to use the Service in breach of any applicable export control or sanctions law.

21Governing law and disputes

21.1 Talk to us first

Before starting formal proceedings, please email hello@mail.rechordly.com and describe the problem. Most disputes with a one-person operation are misunderstandings, and we will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days. This is a request, not a bar on your legal rights.

21.2 Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts at New Delhi have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to the consumer carve-out immediately below.

21.3 If you are a consumer

The clause above does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence, and it does not take away your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country where the law gives you that right. In particular, consumers in the EEA and the UK may bring a claim in their own local courts and may rely on their own country's consumer protection law, and Indian consumers may use the consumer forums under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.

21.4 No class actions

Where the law permits it, you and we each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in a class or representative action. Where that agreement is unenforceable, this clause does not apply to you.

22Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we change the version number and dates at the top.

For a change that materially affects your rights or obligations, we will email account holders and waitlist members at least 14 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the new terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service and, if you are a paying user, cancel for a pro rata refund of the unused portion of your current period. We will not apply a material change retroactively to something that already happened.

23General

Entire agreement: These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service, and replace anything said earlier. Nothing on the marketing pages overrides them, though we intend the two to agree, and if they contradict each other on something material, tell us and we will fix the mistake rather than hide behind this clause.
Severability: If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
No waiver: If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.
Assignment: You may not assign or transfer this agreement without our written consent. We may assign it to a company we incorporate to operate Rechordly, or to a successor in a merger or sale of the business, provided your rights are not reduced.
Force majeure: Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely outside our reasonable control: infrastructure or provider outages, network failures, acts of government, natural disaster, war, or labour disruption. This never excuses a failure to refund money that is owed.
Notices: We will contact you at the email address on your account or waitlist record, and that counts as written notice. Contact us at hello@mail.rechordly.com.
No agency: These terms create no partnership, employment, agency or joint venture between us.
Language: The authoritative version of these terms is English. A translation is provided for convenience only, and the English text governs if they differ.
Headings: Section headings are for navigation and do not affect interpretation.

24Contact

Kushagra Srivastava, trading as Rechordly, New Delhi, India.

Email hello@mail.rechordly.com for anything: a question about these terms, a billing problem, a complaint, a refund, or a legal notice. Replying to any email we have sent you also works. A real person reads it.