Dropline Terms of Service

Last updated: October 5, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Fish Audio about your use of Dropline. "Dropline" means the Dropline apps and software on any device or platform we offer them on (today the Mac app and the Dropline Pinyin input method; other devices and platforms, such as mobile, may follow), the models and other components that come with them, the online services behind them, and the website dropline.fish.audio.

Please read these Terms carefully. Section 15 contains an arbitration agreement, a jury trial waiver and a class action waiver that affect how disputes between you and us are resolved. Sections 12 and 13 disclaim warranties and limit our liability.

1. Agreement

Who we are. Dropline is a Fish Audio product. "Fish Audio", "we", "us" and "our" mean Hanabi AI Inc., a Delaware corporation that does business as Fish Audio.

Registered address: Hanabi AI Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 48109, Dover, DE 19904, United States
Mailing address: Hanabi AI Inc. (Fish Audio), 195 Page Mill Rd #107, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States

Acceptance. By installing, signing in to or using Dropline, or by otherwise showing that you accept these Terms, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use Dropline.

Fish Audio's terms. You use Dropline with a Fish Audio account. The Fish Audio Terms of Use apply to your account and to your use of Dropline, and they are part of this agreement. These Terms add to them for Dropline. Where the two differ about Dropline, these Terms apply.

Organizations. If you use Dropline for a company or another organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for it, and "you" includes that organization. If the organization has a Dropline Customer Agreement with us, meaning a separate written agreement for Dropline between the organization and us, that agreement prevails over these Terms and the Privacy Policy for that organization's users where they differ. An agreement for the Fish Audio platform does not govern Dropline unless it says so.

New features. Dropline changes over time. These Terms apply to new and changed features, apps, platforms and services unless we provide different terms with them. These Terms and the Privacy Policy apply wherever we make Dropline available. Platform-specific terms that we present with a version of the app apply to that version as well.

2. Eligibility and your account

Age. You must be at least 16 to use Dropline. If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, you may use Dropline only with the permission of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms for you.

Your account. You need a Fish Audio account to use Dropline. Keep your account information accurate and your sign-in credentials secure, and do not share your account. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, whether or not you authorized it. Tell us promptly if you think someone has used your account without permission. Your use of Dropline may count against the usage or limits of your Fish Audio account or team.

3. License and ownership

Your license. While you comply with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable license to install and use Dropline on devices that you own or control, for your own personal use and your internal business use.

Restrictions. Except where the law or an applicable open-source license expressly allows it despite this restriction, you must not:

copy, modify, translate or create derivative works of Dropline;
sell, rent, lease, lend, distribute, sublicense or otherwise make Dropline available to anyone else;
reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble Dropline, or try to extract or discover its source code, models, model weights, prompts or underlying methods;
remove or alter any copyright, trademark, license or other notice; or
get around any technical limit, security measure or sign-in requirement.

Ownership. Dropline, including its software, models, designs, documentation, names and logos, and all intellectual property rights in them, belongs to Fish Audio and its licensors. Dropline is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors reserve all rights that these Terms do not expressly grant.

Feedback. If you give us feedback, ideas or suggestions, we may use them for any purpose, without restriction and without owing you anything. You assign to us all rights in them. Where an assignment is not effective, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and sublicensable license to use them.

Open-source software. Dropline includes components that are made available under open-source licenses, which are provided with the software. Those licenses govern those components, and nothing in these Terms limits the rights they give you.

4. Acceptable use

The rules of conduct in the Fish Audio Terms of Use apply to Dropline. In addition, you must not, and must not help or allow anyone else to:

use Dropline in a way that breaks any law or infringes or violates anyone's rights, including privacy, publicity and intellectual property rights;
record anyone, or capture their information, without the notice and consent that the law requires;
put into Dropline any content that you do not have the right to share, or that is unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, harassing or defamatory;
use the Dropline service other than through Dropline and with your own account, including through scripts, bots or other automated or bulk means;
resell Dropline or use it to provide a service to others;
get around usage limits, or probe, scan, overload, disrupt or damage Dropline or the systems that run it;
try to access data or accounts that are not yours;
use Dropline or its output to build, train or improve a product, service or model that competes with Fish Audio's, or collect its output in bulk; or
use Dropline in breach of export control or sanctions laws.

Limits. We may set limits on how and how much you can use Dropline, and we may change them at any time.

Enforcement. We may, but have no duty to, monitor use of Dropline and investigate suspected violations. We alone decide whether these Terms have been violated. If we believe that they have, or that your use creates risk for us or for anyone else, we may remove or refuse content, limit, suspend or end your access, report the matter to the authorities and cooperate with them, in each case without notice and without liability to you.

5. Your content

What it is. "Your Content" means everything you put into Dropline or make available to it, including your voice recordings, what you dictate and type, the text you select, your dictionary, and the text and other content Dropline reads from your apps and your screen. "Output" means the text and other results Dropline produces for you.

Ownership. Between you and us, you keep the rights you have in Your Content, and we do not claim ownership of your Output. Output may not be unique, and other users may receive the same or similar Output.

License to us. You grant Fish Audio and its affiliates a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to host, store, copy, process, transmit, adapt, analyze, create derivative works from and otherwise use Your Content and Output in order to operate, provide, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, analyze, research, improve and develop Dropline and Fish Audio's other products, services, technology and models, to comply with the law and to enforce these Terms. Whether we keep Your Content to train AI models depends on your "Help improve Dropline" setting, as the Privacy Policy describes.

How long the license lasts. The license lasts for as long as we hold Your Content or Output. It continues after that for everything already done with them. We do not have to retrain, change, delete or stop using any model, improvement, or aggregated or de-identified information that was developed or created with them, and all of these belong to us.

Your responsibilities. You are solely responsible for Your Content and for how you use Output. You confirm that you have all the rights, consents and permissions needed to put Your Content into Dropline and to grant the license above. That includes content that belongs to other people or is about them, such as their voices, their messages, and their personal or confidential information in your dictations, on your screen or in your dictionary. You also confirm that Your Content, and our use of it as these Terms allow, does not break any law, any duty you owe, such as a duty of confidentiality or your employer's policies, or anyone's rights.

Imports. If you import words or other data into Dropline from other apps, from files or from your contacts, you confirm that you are allowed to. Dropline is not affiliated with those apps or endorsed by them.

No duty to keep. We have no duty to store, keep or return Your Content or Output, and we may delete them at any time. You are responsible for keeping your own copies.

6. AI output and accuracy

Dropline uses artificial intelligence models, including models provided by other companies, to turn speech into text, to write, rewrite and format text, and to suggest what you type.

Output can be wrong. Dropline can mishear you, leave out, add or change words, get names, numbers and punctuation wrong, and change your meaning. Output may be inaccurate, incomplete or unsuitable for your purpose.
Review before you rely on it. You must review Output before you send it, publish it or act on it. You alone are responsible for what you send and for the decisions you make using Output.
Not professional advice. Output is not medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
Not for high-risk uses. Do not rely on Dropline in an emergency, or in any situation where an error, a delay or an outage could lead to death, injury, or serious loss or damage.
Not our statement. Output is generated automatically. It does not represent our views, and we do not verify or endorse it.

7. Requirements, early versions, changes and availability

What you need. Dropline runs on supported devices, currently Macs with Apple silicon running a recent version of macOS, and may be offered on other devices and platforms in the future. System requirements are listed on our website and may change. Some features need an internet connection.

Early versions. Dropline is new and still changing, and we may label versions or features as beta, preview or experimental. Early, beta, preview and experimental versions and features may be incomplete, may not work as intended, and may change or disappear.

Changes. We may add, change, limit, suspend or discontinue Dropline or any part of it, including any feature, model or provider, for all users or for some, at any time, with or without notice and without liability to you.

Updates. Dropline may download updates automatically and ask you to install them, and you may need to install an update to keep using Dropline. We have no duty to provide updates, maintenance or support.

Availability. Dropline depends on the internet, on your device and its software, and on services run by other companies. It may be slow, interrupted or unavailable at times, and we do not commit to any level of availability. You are responsible for the device, software and internet connection you need, and for their cost.

8. Fees

We may offer Dropline, or parts of it, free of charge or for a fee. We may introduce fees, change fees, and create or change plans and usage allowances at any time. We will tell you before a fee applies to you, and the price and payment terms we present then become part of this agreement. If you do not agree to a fee or to a change, stop using the paid feature before it applies. Payments are non-refundable unless the law requires a refund or we expressly say otherwise. You are responsible for any taxes. The payment terms of the Fish Audio Terms of Use apply to anything you pay for.

9. Third-party services and software

Dropline relies on services and models provided by other companies, and it works inside other apps on your device by reading from them and entering text into them. We do not control those apps and services, and we are not responsible for them or for their availability, content or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms and policies.

10. Privacy

The Dropline Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and keep information when you use Dropline, including how your training choice works. By using Dropline, you consent to our handling information as the Privacy Policy describes. The Fish Audio Privacy Policy covers your Fish Audio account.

11. Suspension and termination

By you. You may stop using Dropline at any time by signing out and removing it from your devices.

By us. We may suspend, limit or end your access to Dropline, or end this agreement, at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you. Dropline also stops working if your Fish Audio account is suspended or closed.

What happens then. When this agreement ends, your license ends, and you must stop using Dropline and remove it from your devices. We may delete Your Content and other information associated with you, and we are not liable for doing so. Ending this agreement does not by itself delete information we keep under the Privacy Policy, which explains how to ask us to delete it.

What continues. The terms that by their nature should continue after this agreement ends do continue, including any amounts you owe (section 8), the restrictions and ownership terms in section 3, our enforcement rights in section 4, the licenses you grant in sections 3 and 5, and sections 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

12. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, Dropline and all Output are provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. Fish Audio, its affiliates, licensors, suppliers and service providers, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents (together, the "Fish Audio Parties") disclaim all warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade.

The Fish Audio Parties do not warrant that Dropline or any Output will be accurate, complete, reliable, secure, timely, uninterrupted or free of errors or harmful components, that Dropline will work with your device or your apps, that Your Content will not be lost or altered, or that any defect will be corrected. You use Dropline and rely on Output at your own risk. Nothing we say or write creates a warranty that these Terms do not expressly state.

Some laws do not allow some of these disclaimers. Where that is so, they apply to you only as far as the law allows.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, and whatever the legal theory, whether contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, statute or anything else, the Fish Audio Parties are not liable to you or to anyone else for:

any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, data or content, any business interruption, or any failure or malfunction of a device;
the cost of substitute goods, services or technology;
any inaccuracy in Output, or anything you send, publish, do or decide in reliance on Output;
any matter beyond our reasonable control; or
any amount, in total for all claims, above the greater of US$100 and the amounts you paid us for Dropline in the 12 months before the claim arose.

These limits apply even if a Fish Audio Party has been told that the damage was possible, and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They apply to all claims about Dropline taken together. For claims about Dropline, the limit in this section applies in place of, and not in addition to, the limit in the Fish Audio Terms of Use. These limits are a basic part of the bargain between you and us, and we would not provide Dropline without them.

Some laws do not allow some of these exclusions and limits. Where the law that applies to you does not allow a liability to be excluded or limited, these Terms do not exclude or limit it. Nothing in these Terms takes away rights that the law of the country where you live gives you as a consumer and that cannot be waived by contract.

14. Indemnity

To the fullest extent the law allows, you will defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Fish Audio Parties from and against all claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including attorneys' fees and costs, that arise from or relate to:

Your Content, including any claim that it, or our use of it as these Terms allow, infringes or violates anyone's rights;
your use of Dropline or of Output, including anything done under your account;
your breach of these Terms or of the Fish Audio Terms of Use; or
your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights.

We may take over the exclusive defense and control of any matter that you must indemnify, at your expense, and you will cooperate with us. You may not settle any such matter without our written consent. We will try to tell you about a claim using the contact details on your account, but a failure to do so does not reduce your obligations.

15. Governing law and disputes

This section applies the governing law and dispute terms of the Fish Audio Terms of Use to Dropline. Please read it carefully. It requires you and us to resolve disputes by individual arbitration, and it limits the ways in which you can seek relief from us.

Governing law. These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to Dropline, are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, applicable US federal law and the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of laws rules.
Time limit. As far as the law allows, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or to Dropline must be started within one year after it arises. After that, the claim is permanently barred.
Negotiation first. You and we will use our best efforts to settle any dispute, claim or disagreement arising out of or relating to these Terms or to Dropline through good-faith negotiation. This is a condition to starting an arbitration. Send notice of your dispute by mail to the mailing address in section 18.
Arbitration. If negotiation does not resolve the dispute, it will be finally settled by binding arbitration in San Francisco County, California. The arbitration will be conducted in English, under the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator who has substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes and who is selected from the appropriate list of JAMS arbitrators under those rules. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court that has jurisdiction.
Costs. The JAMS rules govern the payment of arbitration fees. We will pay all arbitration fees for claims of less than US$75,000. We will not seek our attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator decides that your claim is frivolous.
Small claims and intellectual property. Either of us may bring a qualifying claim in small claims court in San Francisco County, California, or in any US county where you live or work. Either of us may at any time ask any court that has jurisdiction for an injunction or other equitable relief to prevent an actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of intellectual property rights.
No jury trial. You and we waive any constitutional and statutory rights to go to court and have a trial in front of a judge or a jury. In any court proceeding about whether to vacate or enforce an arbitration award, you and we waive all rights to a jury trial, and a judge will decide.
No class actions. All claims and disputes within the scope of this arbitration agreement must be arbitrated or litigated on an individual basis and not on a class basis. The claims of more than one user cannot be arbitrated or litigated jointly or consolidated with those of any other user. If this waiver is found to be invalid or unenforceable, neither you nor we are entitled to arbitration, the arbitration terms of this section are void, and all claims and disputes will be resolved in court as "Courts" below provides.
Opting out. You may opt out of arbitration by sending a written notice by mail, postmarked within 30 days after you first accepted these Terms, to Hanabi AI Inc., 195 Page Mill Rd #107, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States. The notice must include your name and home address, the email address or telephone number associated with your account, and a clear statement that you want to opt out of this arbitration agreement. An opt-out that you validly made under the Fish Audio Terms of Use applies to these Terms as well.
Courts. If you opt out, or wherever this section allows a dispute to be brought in court, the arbitration terms do not apply to either of us, and any court proceeding other than a small claims action must be brought in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. You and we consent to the jurisdiction of those courts.
Who else may enforce this section. Fish Audio's officers, directors, employees and independent contractors are third-party beneficiaries of this section and may enforce it against you.
Survival. This section continues to apply after this agreement ends.

If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland. Nothing in this section takes away protection that the mandatory law of the country where you live gives you as a consumer and that cannot be waived by contract, including any right to bring a claim in the courts of that country.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms at any time. When we do, we will post the updated Terms on this page and change the date at the top, and we may also tell you in the app, by email or in another way. Changes take effect when they are posted, or on a later date that we state. If you keep using Dropline after changes take effect, you accept them. If you do not agree to them, stop using Dropline. A change to section 15 does not apply to a dispute that either of us notified the other of in writing before the change took effect. No other change to these Terms is effective unless it is in writing and signed by us.

17. General

Entire agreement. These Terms, the Fish Audio Terms of Use, any Dropline Customer Agreement that applies to you, any platform-specific terms we present with a version of the app, and any terms we present to you for a paid feature are the entire agreement between you and us about Dropline. They replace all earlier agreements, communications and understandings about it.
Severability. Except as section 15 provides for the class action waiver, if any part of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, that part will be enforced to the fullest extent the law allows and narrowed only as far as needed to make it enforceable. The rest of these Terms stays in full effect.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a term or do not act on a breach, we have not given up the right to do so later. A waiver is effective only if we give it in writing.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer this agreement, or any of your rights or obligations under it, without our prior written consent, and any attempt to do so is void. We may assign, transfer or delegate this agreement and any of our rights and obligations without your consent and without notice.
Events beyond our control. We are not responsible for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, such as outages of networks or of other companies' services, failures of AI model providers, power failures, cyberattacks, natural disasters, epidemics, labor disputes, war or acts of government.
Export and sanctions. You must comply with all export control and sanctions laws that apply to your use of Dropline. You confirm that you are not located in a country or region that is subject to a US government embargo and that you are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties. The export terms of the Fish Audio Terms of Use also apply.
Notices. We may give you notices in the app, by email to the address on your account or by posting them on our website, and you agree to receive them electronically. Formal legal notices to us must be in writing and sent by mail to the mailing address in section 18.
Relationship. You and we are independent parties. These Terms do not create a partnership, a joint venture, an agency or an employment relationship.
Third-party beneficiaries. The Fish Audio Parties are third-party beneficiaries of sections 12, 13 and 14, and section 15 names others. Otherwise, these Terms give no rights to anyone who is not a party to them.
Reading these Terms. "Including" and "such as" mean "including without limitation". Examples illustrate and do not limit. Headings are for convenience only. Where these Terms say that we "may" do something, we may do it in our sole discretion.
Language. These Terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, it is for convenience only, and the English version applies.

18. Contact

Email: support@fish.audio
Registered address: Hanabi AI Inc., 1111B S Governors Ave STE 48109, Dover, DE 19904, United States
Mailing address: Hanabi AI Inc. (Fish Audio), 195 Page Mill Rd #107, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States

Formal legal notices, including a notice of a dispute and an arbitration opt-out, must be sent by mail to the mailing address.