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Terms of Service
Last updated: 22 July 2026
Nextline is a side project, not a company — free to use, built and maintained by one person (Alex Zhezherau, San Diego, CA, USA), with no funding, staff, or support desk behind it. These terms cover the Nextline app and the website at thenextline.app. By installing or using either, you're agreeing to them — including the fact that you're relying on a hobby project, not a vendor with an SLA. If that's not what you're looking for, this probably isn't the right tool, and that's worth knowing before you install it.
The short version
- You get a free, personal license to use Nextline on your Macs. Don't resell it or pick it apart.
- Suggestions are machine-generated guesses. Nothing lands in your document unless you accept it, and what you send is your responsibility.
- Your writing is yours — including every suggestion you accept.
- Nextline is early software, provided as is, with liability capped.
- Free today is the current price, not a forever promise; changes get announced first.
1. Your license
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use Nextline on Macs you own or control, for your own personal or internal business use. Nextline is licensed, not sold; we keep all rights not expressly granted here.
You agree not to:
- redistribute, sell, rent, sublicense, or bundle the app with other products;
- modify the app or create derivative works, or reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble it, except to the extent the law gives you that right despite this sentence;
- remove or falsify any notices, or pass the app off as yours or as someone else's;
- abuse the download or update infrastructure (bulk automated downloads, probing, interference with the service).
2. Free while early
Nextline is currently free. That's the price today, not a commitment: we expect to charge for some or all of Nextline eventually, and we may change or retire free functionality. If we introduce charges, we'll say so clearly in advance, the paid terms will be presented at purchase, and nothing will ever be charged silently.
3. Suggestions
Nextline's suggestions are generated by a language model on your Mac, from the text around your cursor. That means:
- They can be wrong. A suggestion may be inaccurate, outdated, ungrammatical, or inappropriate for your context. Nothing is inserted until you accept it, and you are responsible for reviewing what you accept before you rely on it or send it — especially anything factual, legal, medical, or financial. Suggestions are text prediction, not professional advice.
- Your text is yours. We claim no ownership of anything you write with Nextline's help. To the extent we hold any right in a suggestion you accept, we assign it to you on acceptance. (We never receive your text, so we couldn't use it anyway.)
- No exclusivity. The model may produce similar or identical suggestions for other people typing similar text. You own your writing; you don't acquire rights to a phrasing just because Nextline suggested it to you.
4. macOS permissions and other people's apps
Nextline works by reading and inserting text through the macOS accessibility APIs, under the Accessibility permission you grant and can revoke in System Settings. It operates inside apps we don't control, and those apps' own terms govern your use of them. It's on you to make sure using an autocomplete tool is acceptable where you're typing — for example, in exam or assessment software that forbids assistance.
Compatibility can change when macOS or those apps change. The compatibility page records what we've verified and when — it's a snapshot, not a guarantee. Product names and logos on this site belong to their owners; comparison pages are our editorial opinion, and no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
5. Updates and availability
Nextline checks for updates automatically and installs them with your approval. We may add, change, or remove features, or discontinue Nextline entirely. It's early software: expect rough edges. We're not obligated to provide updates, fixes, or support — though we generally try, because we want you to keep using it.
6. The website
The content of thenextline.app is ours or used with permission; browse and share it, don't scrape or republish it as your own. Comparison data is verified on the dates shown on each page and can drift afterwards. If you send us feedback or ideas, we can use them without restriction or obligation — that is the deal with feedback, and it's the only license you grant us in these terms.
7. No warranties
Nextline and this website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.
In particular: Nextline inserts text into your documents at your direction, and you are responsible for reviewing the result. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
8. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law: we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, however arising; and our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to Nextline or this site is capped at the greater of the amount you paid us for Nextline in the twelve months before the claim and US $50.
Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded — including, where applicable, liability for intent or gross negligence, for personal injury, or under statutory consumer rights that can't be waived.
9. Termination
You can stop any time: quit Nextline and delete it. Your license ends automatically if you materially breach these terms. We may stop offering Nextline, or any part of it, at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive — your ownership of your writing, the disclaimers, the liability cap, and the general provisions — survive.
10. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, excluding its conflict-of-law rules. If you use Nextline as a consumer, you keep any mandatory protections and venue rights your local law gives you regardless of that choice.
Before anyone files anything anywhere: email us. Most problems are fixable in a good-faith conversation, and we ask for 30 days to try. Failing that, disputes belong to the courts of the State of California, USA, except where consumer law says otherwise.
11. Changes to these terms
We can update these terms as Nextline evolves. The date at the top changes with every revision; material changes are announced on this site or in the app with reasonable advance notice, and don't apply retroactively. Using Nextline after a change takes effect means you accept it; if you don't, stop using the app — nothing else is required of you.
12. General
These terms plus the privacy policy are the entire agreement between us about Nextline. If a part of them turns out to be unenforceable, the rest stands. Not enforcing a term isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them as part of a sale or reorganization of the product.
13. Contact
Questions about these terms: team@thenextline.app.