Terms of use.

Grapple is free during the public preview. These terms say what you can do with it, what stays yours, and what we can promise while it’s a preview.

Last updated 8 October 2026.

About these terms

Grapple is published by Showrunner-Studio Ltd, a private limited company registered in England and Wales (company number 16955290), whose registered office is at 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom. That’s who “we” and “us” refer to in these terms.

These terms are an agreement between you and us about using Grapple, the video editor you install on your computer. By installing or using Grapple, you agree to them. Our privacy notice explains how we handle personal data.

Questions about these terms go to [email protected].

Free during the public preview

Grapple is free during the public preview. As a preview, it changes as we build it. If we ever ask you to pay for Grapple, we’ll tell you first, and nothing in these terms makes you pay for anything you haven’t agreed to.

Your licence

We give you a personal, non-exclusive licence to install and run Grapple on computers you own or control, for personal and commercial work. It’s yours alone, so you can’t sell it or pass it on. You can use what you make with Grapple for anything you like, including client work and work you sell.

The licence lasts as long as you follow these terms. You can stop using Grapple whenever you like by uninstalling it. If you break these terms, your licence ends.

Fair use

Don’t reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble Grapple, except where the law or an open-source licence allows it. Don’t use Grapple to break the law or to infringe anyone else’s rights, and don’t remove its copyright or licence notices.

Open-source components

Grapple includes open-source and third-party components, each under its own licence. Their licences and notices come with Grapple, and nothing in these terms limits your rights under them.

For any component under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), such as the FFmpeg libraries Grapple uses, you may modify that component, relink Grapple with your modified version, and reverse engineer Grapple as far as you need to debug those modifications. The notices that come with Grapple say where to get the source code of those libraries.

Your work

Your projects, your media and everything you make with Grapple are yours. We claim no rights in them, and Grapple doesn’t send them to us. Make sure you have the rights to the media you bring in.

AI services you connect

When you connect an AI service, such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or a service you give a key, you use it under that service’s own terms and your own account with it. Any charges come from the service, under your plan with it. We aren’t responsible for what a service does with what it receives, or for what it sends back.

AI models can get things wrong. Check what Ape and Create make before you rely on it or publish it.

Updates

Grapple keeps itself up to date. It downloads updates automatically in the background, and an update installs the next time Grapple starts, or when you choose Restart to update. Updates can add, change or remove features, and these terms apply to every version.

No warranty

Grapple is a preview, provided “as is”. We don’t promise that it will work without faults or interruptions, or that it suits any particular purpose. Keep backups of work that matters to you.

This doesn’t affect any rights you have under UK consumer law that can’t be excluded.

Liability

As far as the law allows, we aren’t liable for any loss that comes from using Grapple, including lost work, data, profit or business.

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t let us limit.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. We’ll publish the new version on this page and change the date at the top. If you keep using Grapple after a change, the new terms apply.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales can settle any dispute about them. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring a claim in your local courts.