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Terms of Service

Last updated 2026-06-13

1. Agreement and what Forkbench is

By downloading, accessing, or using the Forkbench macOS app, website, and related services (the "Service") — or by creating an account — you agree that these Terms form a binding agreement between you and Forkbench ("we," "our," or "us"). If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

Forkbench is a macOS terminal application for running AI coding agents in parallel — every branch its own workspace, every agent its own lane — together with a website and web dashboard that support it. Some functionality is free. Certain features (the "Paid Features") require an active Pro subscription and today include:

  • Notebooks — briefs, conventions, and notes ("notes") that you write and your agents read. We store these and synchronize them across your branches, devices, and the teammates you share them with.
  • Fork Lab — a link between the web and the AI coding agents running in terminals on Macs you have paired to your account, so you can read those conversations and send instructions to them from the web.
  • Collabs — a shared plan that lets multiple AI coding agents, across the Macs you have paired to your account, coordinate on one goal: a common task backlog that agents claim, work, and hand off. We store and synchronize the plan and its tasks across your devices.

We may add, change, or remove features over time. Forkbench is a tool that helps you operate and communicate with AI coding agents; it is not a party to what those agents do (see Sections 5 and 6).

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 16 years old — or the minimum age of digital consent where you live, if lower but no younger than 13 — to use the Service. You need an account for most functionality. You agree to:

  • Provide accurate account information and keep it current.
  • Keep your password and sign-in credentials confidential.
  • Take responsibility for all activity that occurs under your account and your paired devices.
  • Notify us promptly at [email protected] of any unauthorized use of your account or devices.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that create risk or legal exposure for us or others.

3. Subscriptions, billing, trials, and refunds

Paid Features are offered on a recurring subscription (currently EUR 12 per month, plus any applicable taxes such as VAT). Subscriptions and payments are handled by our third-party payment processor (currently Polar), which acts as merchant of record and may collect and remit taxes. By subscribing, you authorize us and our processor to charge your payment method for the subscription, plus applicable taxes, on each renewal until you cancel.

New subscriptions may include a 14-day free trial. If you do not cancel before the trial ends, the subscription converts to paid and your payment method is charged. Trial length is set on the product and may change.

You may cancel at any time from your account page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep access to Paid Features through the end of that period. We do not provide partial-period refunds except as described below or as required by law.

Refunds. If you are unhappy with a charge, email [email protected] within 14 days of that charge and we will refund the most recent billing period. Refunds outside that window are at our discretion. Refunds are issued to your original payment method through our payment processor.

Fair use and plan limits

A Pro subscription is for a single individual and the devices that individual controls. You may pair up to the number of devices stated in our documentation, and you agree not to share your account or subscription with others, or to use a single subscription to provide the Paid Features to multiple people or to an organization. Use by a team is offered separately.

The Paid Features are provided on a fair-use basis. Notebooks storage and Fork Lab relay are generous but are not intended to support automated, abnormal, or abusive volumes. We may apply reasonable technical and rate limits to protect the Service and other users, and we may contact you about — or limit, suspend, or downgrade — use that materially exceeds normal individual use or that breaches Section 7 (Acceptable use).

Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA consumers)

If you are a consumer in the EU or EEA, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract without giving a reason. Because a Pro subscription gives you immediate access to digital services, by subscribing you ask us to begin providing the Paid Features right away and you acknowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal once provision has begun. This does not affect your statutory rights, and independently of it you can cancel at any time from your account page; the refund practice above also still applies.

4. Your content

"Your Content" means the notes, notebooks, messages, instructions, project names, and other material you create, upload, or send through the Service. As between you and us, you own Your Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, transmit, display, and process Your Content solely to operate and provide the Service to you — for example, to synchronize your notes across your devices and teammates, and to relay your messages and instructions to the agents on your paired Macs, including queuing them while a Mac is offline.

You are responsible for Your Content, and you represent that you have the rights needed to submit it and that it does not violate these Terms, any law, or anyone else's rights. Do not put secrets you don't want stored — passwords, API keys, access tokens, or other credentials — into your notes or messages. Notes and messages are stored on our servers so the Service can work; treat them accordingly.

5. AI coding agents and their output

Forkbench helps you run and communicate with AI coding agents. Those agents, and the AI models and providers behind them, are third-party tools that you choose, configure, and operate. We do not create, own, control, supervise, review, or endorse the agents or anything they produce.

You understand and agree that:

  • AI-generated output — code, commands, suggestions, explanations, and other results — may be inaccurate, incomplete, insecure, or otherwise harmful and may not be suitable for your purpose.
  • You are solely responsible for reviewing, testing, and deciding whether to rely on, run, or ship any AI output. Do not execute or deploy output you have not reviewed.
  • Your use of any third-party agent or AI provider is also governed by that provider's own terms and policies and is at your own risk.

We are not responsible or liable for the agents, the AI providers, or any output, action, or oscope produced through them.

6. Fork Lab, commands, and your devices

Fork Lab lets you pair Macs to your account and send messages, instructions, and commands from the web to AI coding agents and terminals running on machines you control. We transmit and queue what you send and relay what your Macs report back; we do not execute, vet, or supervise it.

You are solely responsible for:

  • The instructions and commands you send and everything that happens on any machine as a result — including code execution, file and data changes, data loss, and any effect on your systems or third-party systems.
  • Keeping your devices, accounts, and pairings secure, and promptly revoking any device or pairing you no longer control from your account's devices page.

Only pair machines you are authorized to control, and only send instructions you are authorized to run on them.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to — and not to help or permit anyone else to:

  • Use the Service, or any agent operated through it, to do anything unlawful, or to create, distribute, or operate malware, ransomware, or other harmful or unauthorized code.
  • Access, attack, disrupt, or test any system, network, data, or account you are not authorized to access.
  • Infringe or misappropriate intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights, or submit content you do not have the rights to.
  • Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from the Service, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by law.
  • Resell, sublicense, rent, or redistribute the Service without our written permission.
  • Interfere with, overload, probe, or circumvent the security, rate limits, or infrastructure of the Service, or use it to send spam or otherwise abuse the relay.
  • Use the Service in violation of applicable export, sanctions, or data-protection laws.

We may investigate and take appropriate action, including suspending or terminating access, for any violation.

8. License to use the software

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to download and use the Forkbench application on Macs you control, and to use the website and dashboard, for their intended purpose. The Service may download and install updates automatically. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time.

9. Intellectual property

The Service — including the Forkbench software, website, and their look, feel, and content, but excluding Your Content — is owned by Forkbench and our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the rights expressly granted here, we reserve all rights. Any feedback you send us is given freely, and we may use it without obligation to you.

10. Third-party services

The Service relies on and interoperates with third parties — including AI agent and model providers, our payment processor, sign-in providers such as Google and Apple, and infrastructure and email providers. Your use of those services may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible for third-party services and do not guarantee their availability, security, or output.

11. Disclaimers

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE ABOVE, WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT MESSAGES, INSTRUCTIONS, OR COMMANDS WILL BE DELIVERED, QUEUED, OR EXECUTED RELIABLY OR ON TIME; OR THAT ANY AI-GENERATED OUTPUT WILL BE ACCURATE, SECURE, OR FIT FOR ANY PURPOSE. YOU USE THE SERVICE, YOUR AGENTS, AND THEIR OUTPUT AT YOUR OWN RISK. This Section does not affect mandatory legal guarantees that cannot be excluded, including any statutory guarantees owed to consumers.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, FORKBENCH AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, CODE, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE — INCLUDING DAMAGES ARISING FROM AI-GENERATED OUTPUT, FROM COMMANDS OR INSTRUCTIONS EXECUTED ON YOUR OR OTHERS' MACHINES, FROM LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA OR CODE, OR FROM THIRD-PARTY AGENTS OR PROVIDERS — EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) EUR 100 (OR ITS EQUIVALENT).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability where it would be unlawful to do so — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Where your local law gives you mandatory rights or guarantees as a consumer, nothing in these Terms affects them.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Forkbench and its officers, employees, and suppliers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content; (b) the instructions or commands you send and anything they cause on any machine; (c) your use of the Service or of any third-party agent or provider; or (d) your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

14. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account from your account page. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or create risk or legal exposure for us or others. On termination, the rights granted to you end; provisions that by their nature should survive — including Sections 4 through 13, 15, and 16 — survive.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you through the Service or by email, and — where required — give you reasonable advance notice. Changes take effect when posted, or on any later effective date we state, and your continued use of the Service after that means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to them or the Service, are governed by the laws of the country in which the operator of Forkbench is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live, and you keep any right you have under that law to bring proceedings in your local courts.

Before bringing any claim, you agree to first contact us at [email protected] and try in good faith to resolve it informally. Subject to the consumer rights described above, any dispute that is not resolved informally will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts competent for the operator's place of establishment; either party may still seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property or confidential information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, any claim must be brought within one year after it arises.

17. General

These Terms are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email [email protected].