stab

Terms of Use

In short: you can buy the app once and keep it, subscribe to Stab Cloud, or both; either is enough on its own, and without either every tool works on 3 songs of your own. Your songs are yours. An account is for people 15 and over; everything else in Stab is for everyone. When a subscription ends, 3 of your Stab Cloud songs stay, and you have 14 days to download the others.

Version 2026-10-06, last updated 28 October 2026.

1. Who we are and what this covers

Stab is made by Gargant, an EURL registered in France (the company's details are in the legal notice below), called “we” here. These terms cover the Stab apps for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Android, the web app at app.stab.audio, Stab Cloud, shared songs, share links, Play Together, and pages published on stab.page.

Using the apps without an account means accepting sections 2, 3, 9, 11 and 13 to 18. Creating or signing in to an account, by ticking “I’m 15 or older and I accept the Terms”, means accepting all of them and the privacy policy. We record which version you accepted, and when.

If you are a consumer, nothing here takes away the rights the law of your country gives you.

2. The licence

Stab is licensed, not sold. Subject to these terms, we give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Stab:

The licence has no time limit and includes every update to its edition. You may use Stab and what you make with it for any purpose, personal or professional. You may not resell, rent or redistribute Stab, share a licence key beyond its computers, or get around the free limit or a licence check. You may not decompile or reverse-engineer it except where the law allows you to (for example, for interoperability). Stab includes third-party components under their own licences, listed in the acknowledgements.

What we made

Stab comes with work of ours: the models that read music and listen (Read Music among them), the sounds and kits we made, the demo songs, the Songbook’s arrangements and learning material, the Get Started and help videos, and the apps’ artwork and icons. They are protected by copyright and, where they form one, by database rights, and they stay ours. The licence lets you use them in Stab: play, practise, change and record them for yourself. What you make with them is yours: a song you write, a recording you make with our sounds. You may not extract them from Stab (unpack, decrypt or copy out a model, a sound or another file the apps carry), decompile, disassemble or otherwise reconstruct a model, or use them outside Stab: to train or build another product or service, or to publish, sell or redistribute them, as they are or changed. We reserve them from text and data mining (Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790). Music in the public domain stays free for anyone, under our arrangements of it. A song of yours that starts from one of our pieces is yours to publish on stab.page, which is using it in Stab. What others made comes with Stab under its own licence, listed in the acknowledgements, and nothing here restricts what that licence allows.

A licence is checked on your device, offline. If a purchase is refunded or charged back, its licence ends, and the app learns it the next time it is online. Anyone can buy a licence, at any age; a purchase on a child's device follows the store's family controls.

3. Free use, and the two ways past it

Without a licence or a subscription, every tool works on up to 3 songs of your own: the songs on that device and your own songs in Stab Cloud (its trash included), counted together. Songs other people share with you don't count. At 3, adding another (a new song, an import, a duplicate, or keeping a song as below) needs a licence, a subscription, or a song deleted first.

If you hold more than 3 songs of your own without a licence or a subscription (after a subscription ends, for instance), the app is read-only on every song until you buy a licence, subscribe, or delete enough. Read-only, a song opens, plays at its written tempo and key, prints and exports; it can't be edited, practised (the loop, speed, key and the other practice tools) or have its sound or mix changed. Nothing on your device is deleted for it.

Songs that aren't yours (the demos and the Welcome song, Songbook pieces, a file opened from outside your songs, a song opened from a share link) open read-only in the apps until you keep them in your songs, where they count like any other. In the web app, a demo or a file you open can be edited to try; keeping it puts it in Stab Cloud, where it counts.

A licence lifts the limit for the songs on its devices (Stab Cloud songs keep the account's plan, section 5). A subscription lifts it everywhere you sign in.

4. Accounts

An account is optional and free. It's needed only for Stab Cloud, shared songs, share links and publishing. An account is for people 15 and over: when you sign in, you confirm you're 15 or older and accept these Terms. On an iPhone or iPad that shares one, Apple's age range is asked first, and an account isn't offered under 15. Everything else in Stab (writing, playing, practising, recording, files, Play Together) is for everyone, with no account.

You sign in with a code we email you, or with Apple. One email address is one account. Keep your email account secure: sign-in codes are sent there. You're responsible for what's done through your account; you can see and sign out each of your devices from the app, and should tell us if you think someone else is using it. Your display name is shown to people you share songs or play with: don't use one that impersonates someone or offends.

Ticking “Send me news and updates from Stab” is optional and separate from these terms; you can stop those emails at any time (see the privacy policy).

Inactive accounts

A free account that isn't used for 12 months is deleted, as if you had asked (the privacy policy says what that deletes). Using it means signing in, or using Stab Cloud from any device or the web while signed in. We email you a month before and again a week before; signing in before the date keeps the account. An account isn’t inactive while a Stab Cloud subscription runs on it, or while it holds credits you bought (section 10): it stays, and we don't send those emails. A licence works without an account and isn't affected.

5. Stab Cloud

Stab Cloud keeps your songs on our servers so they're on every device you sign in on and on the web, with their history, sharing, share links and published pages; the apps keep a copy on the device, so cloud songs work offline there. Stored songs are not end-to-end encrypted: the service can read them, which is how it keeps their history, renders the pages you publish and lets support help when you ask.

Plans and limits

Every account has a plan: Free, or Stab Cloud while a subscription (or Stab Cloud given as a gift) runs. Today's limits:

FreeStab Cloud
Songs in Stab Cloud32,000
Storage, recordings included250 MB10 GB
Version history kept30 daysEverything (older versions thinned)
Share links3200
Published pages1200
Collections—50
Songs you share with others1, with up to 3 peopleEvery song, up to 20 people each

The subscription

Refunds are covered by the refunds page.

If we ever stop Stab Cloud

We would tell you at least 90 days ahead, refund the unused part of any subscription paid to us, and keep export working until the end. Your licence and the songs on your devices don't depend on Stab Cloud.

6. Your songs

What you make in Stab is yours. We claim no rights over it. A song can hold recordings of your playing or your voice, video, photos or scans of printed music, lyrics and credits, as well as notes. By keeping songs in Stab Cloud, you allow us to store, copy and process them only as needed to run the service for you and the people you share them with: syncing, history, previews, shared songs, share links, and rendering the pages you publish. Support opens a song only when you ask for help with it, or to handle a report about it (see the privacy policy).

You're responsible for having the right to use what you bring in: files, recordings, videos, scores. Stab's demos and Songbook pieces come with their own licences, shown with them. A video from YouTube used as a song's reference plays in YouTube's own player, under YouTube's terms.

7. Shared songs

The owner of a Stab Cloud song can share it with other people who have an account, each as Can Edit (edits and saves, names and restores versions, renames) or Can View (opens, plays and practises it, without editing). Only the owner invites, removes people, makes links, publishes, transfers or deletes the song.

Don't use sharing to send spam, harass anyone, or share anything illegal or that infringes someone else's rights. If an account does, we may warn it, end the sharing of a song, or suspend its sharing: it can then no longer invite anyone or join anyone's songs, and the songs it already shares become read-only for their members until sharing is restored; its owner keeps editing their own songs. In serious or repeated cases we may close the account (section 12). We tell the account holder what we did and why, and how to contest it, except where the law prevents it (section 12).

A share link shows a song read-only to whoever has the link, in a browser, without an account; you can revoke it at any time, and it can expire. Whether people who open it can duplicate the song follows the song's Members can make copies switch. A published page is public on stab.page. When you publish, you say what the song is: your own work, in the public domain, licensed to you, or someone else's. Pages that aren't your own work or in the public domain are kept out of search engines.

You may not publish or share anything that infringes someone else's rights or that is illegal, hateful, or harassing. Anyone can tell us about a page: use the Report link on the page, or write to [email protected], our point of contact under the EU's Digital Services Act. We look at every notice and tell whoever sent it what we decided. We may take a page down; we then tell its owner why, as section 12 says, and how to contest it. An account that repeatedly infringes others' rights loses publishing.

9. Play Together

Play Together sessions are open to the people who have their code or link, and need no account. Sessions are encrypted end to end between the devices: we can't see or moderate what's in them, so the host is responsible for who they let in and what they share. Guests keep a copy of the host's song only if the host allows it. Don't use sessions to harass anyone.

10. The Assistant and credits

The Assistant answers questions about your songs and about Stab, and proposes changes you hear before you keep them. It needs an account and your consent, asked once: to answer, what it needs from the song you ask about and what you type are sent to Anthropic, whose model writes the answer. The privacy policy says what is sent, what we keep and for how long.

Credits

What it writes, and using it well

Connect an AI app

With a licence or Stab Cloud, an AI app on your computer can read and change your songs through Stab's own helper, without credits: it runs on that app's model, under its maker's terms, and nothing it does passes through our servers. What it does with your songs is between you and that app.

11. Using Stab fairly

Don't attack, overload or probe the service, get around its limits or a licence check, take out the apps’ models or content (section 2, What we made), scrape it, use it to host files that aren't songs or what they use, or use it to break the law. Don't use invitations, share links or published pages to send unsolicited messages.

12. Suspending or closing an account

If an account breaks these terms seriously or repeatedly, we may limit what it can do (such as sharing or publishing), suspend it, or close it. These decisions are made by people, after looking at what happened; none is made automatically. We act in proportion to what happened and tell the account holder, by email, what we did, on what facts, which rule of these terms or which law it rests on, and for how long, except where the law or an emergency doesn't allow it. To contest it, reply to that email: we look at it again and answer. You can also go to the courts. You can download your songs first, unless the law prevents it. A licence you bought isn't affected, unless the breach is of the licence itself (section 2).

If we close an account, it can be reopened if we reverse the decision, and we tell you by email when we do. Otherwise it is deleted 30 days after it was closed, as when you ask for your account to be deleted. Before then, reply to the email we sent and ask for a copy of your songs: we send it as we would for a requested deletion. A Stab Cloud subscription bought from us through Paddle is cancelled when we close the account, and ends at the end of the period already paid. One bought on the App Store or Google Play can only be cancelled by you, in that store. Nothing is refunded automatically; the credits you bought are refunded on request, as section 10 says: we refund those bought from us through Paddle, and those bought on Google Play, ourselves; for the App Store, where only Apple can refund, we tell you how to ask Apple.

13. Guarantees and liability

We work to keep Stab correct and Stab Cloud available, but the service may pause for maintenance or outages. If you are a consumer in the EU, you have the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content and services (in France, articles L224-25-12 and following of the Code de la consommation), which these terms don't limit.

If you are a consumer, you keep every right to compensation the law gives you. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for losses that weren't a foreseeable result of our failure.

If you use Stab for your business, as a professional: we aren't liable for indirect losses (lost profits, lost opportunities), and our total liability for anything under these terms is limited to what you paid us, directly or through a reseller, in the 12 months before the claim.

Nothing here limits liability for death or injury, fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or anything else the law doesn't allow to be limited. Keep copies of songs that matter to you: they're files.

14. Ending

You can stop using Stab and delete your account at any time, from the app or the web (the privacy policy says what's deleted, and when). Your licence stays yours unless these terms are seriously breached (for example, a shared or resold key) or the purchase is refunded.

15. Children

Stab is for musicians of every age. Children can use the apps, buy them through their store's family controls, open share links and join Play Together sessions, all without an account. Accounts, and with them Stab Cloud, shared songs and publishing, are for people 15 and over.

16. Changes to these terms

We change these terms only for a valid reason: a new or changed feature, a change in the law or a decision we must follow, security, or to make them clearer. We then update the version and the date above and, for a change that matters to you, tell account holders by email at least 30 days ahead, saying what changes. If you don't accept it, you can end the contract before it applies, at no cost: export your songs and delete your account, and if a Stab Cloud subscription paid to us runs, cancel it and we refund the unused part. Using your account after the date means accepting the new version, which we then record. A change doesn't take away a licence you already bought, or credits you already have.

17. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you can bring a claim there.

Purchases are made from Paddle (our reseller and the merchant of record, for direct purchases), Apple (the App Store) or Google (Google Play), not from us. A dispute about a payment, a refund or a sale is handled under the seller's terms and its own complaint and dispute procedures, including any consumer mediation it offers: Paddle's buyer terms, Apple's and Google Play's terms. We help with any of them: see the refunds page.

For anything else (your account, Stab Cloud, shared songs, pages), write to us first at [email protected]: most things are settled by an email. You keep every right consumer law gives you, including going to the courts.

If writing to us doesn't settle it, you can refer it, free of charge, to our consumer mediator: CM2C (Centre de la Médiation de la Consommation de Conciliateurs de Justice), 49 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, cm2c.net, after first writing to us. The mediator handles disputes about the services we provide ourselves; purchases go to their seller, as above.

18. Contact

[email protected] for anything about Stab, these terms or your account; [email protected] for notices about published pages.