Terms of Use
These terms govern your use of the Crisp application. Please read them — in particular the sections on warranties and liability, which limit our responsibility to you.
Last updated: 28 July 2026.
1. Licence
Crisp is licensed, not sold. On purchase you receive a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Crisp on Macs you own or control, for personal or commercial work, for as long as you comply with these terms. Crisp Pro is a one-time purchase for the version line you bought; we do not currently charge for updates, but we do not promise perpetual free upgrades to future major versions.
2. What you may not do
You may not resell, sublicense, rent or redistribute the application itself; share your licence key publicly; or attempt to circumvent the licensing or free-tier watermark. You may not use Crisp to create or process material that is unlawful, or that you do not have the rights to process.
3. Your content is yours
You retain all rights to the media you process. We claim no licence over it, and — as described in our privacy policy — we never receive it.
4. Output and AI-generated detail
Crisp uses machine-learning models that reconstruct plausible detail rather than recovering information that is genuinely absent from the source. Output may therefore differ from the original in ways that matter for some purposes. Crisp's output must not be relied on as evidence, for forensic identification, for medical or diagnostic use, or in any context where invented detail could mislead. You are responsible for reviewing output before you publish or rely on it.
5. Third-party components
Crisp bundles open-source components under their own licences, including FFmpeg (GPLv3) and
the upscaling and restoration models. The complete notices, and a written offer for the
corresponding source of the GPL components, ship inside the application (see
NOTICES.txt in the app bundle) and are available on request.
6. No warranty
Crisp is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that Crisp will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will produce any particular quality of result.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, media, profits, revenue or goodwill, arising from or relating to your use of Crisp — even if we have been advised of the possibility. Our total aggregate liability to you for any claim relating to Crisp is limited to the amount you actually paid for it.
Keep backups of your original files. Crisp writes new files rather than overwriting your originals, but no software is free of defects and you should not rely on any single copy of irreplaceable media.
8. Consumer rights
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any right you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be excluded — including, in the UK and EU, rights relating to goods and digital content that are not as described or not of satisfactory quality. Where such rights apply, they sit alongside these terms.
9. Termination
This licence ends if you materially breach these terms. You may end it at any time by deactivating your licence and uninstalling the app.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms for future releases. The version published here when you purchase or update is the version that applies to that copy.
11. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer law in your country of residence.