Strofa · Last updated 21 September 2026
These terms are the agreement between you and Strofa about using the app, the websites on strofa.no and the big-screen features in Strofa Display. They are written to be read. By creating an account or using Strofa, you accept them.
Strofa is operated by:
These terms cover the service itself. The subscription is bought from Apple or Google, not from us — see Subscription below. Apple and Google are not parties to this agreement, but Apple is a third-party beneficiary of it and may enforce it against you. That is a condition of distributing the app in the App Store.
Strofa is a tool for musicians: a songbook with lyrics and chords, setlists, band sharing, a calendar with gigs and venues, rehearsal recordings, contracts with electronic signing, stage and audience features on a big screen, and control of equipment such as lighting and MIDI. The app works offline; the cloud keeps your content in sync across your devices and with your band. There is one subscription and it includes everything — no free version and no separate tiers.
You need an account to sync and to work with a band, and you are responsible for keeping your sign-in details to yourself. Tell us at bugs@strofa.no if you suspect someone else has access. Strofa is not aimed at children; you must be at least 16 to create an account, or have the consent of a parent or guardian. You can also use the app entirely offline without an account — but then nothing is synced and nothing is stored with us.
For as long as your subscription is active, you have a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use Strofa on devices you own or control, for your own musical work — your own gigs, rehearsals and bands. You may not rent out, resell or share your account, and you may not copy the app, decompile it or extract parts of it beyond what the law expressly permits.
If we change the price, the store notifies you and asks for your consent before the new price is charged, following Apple's and Google's rules. You can cancel instead of accepting. When a subscription ends, the app locks — but your content is not deleted. It is waiting if you come back.
Because the purchase is made from Apple or Google, they are the seller towards you. Refunds and any statutory right of withdrawal are therefore handled by them, under their terms — through reportaproblem.apple.com or Google Play. We cannot refund money we never received. Tell us anyway if something has gone wrong: we will help where we can, and if the fault is on our side we will say so to the store.
Everything you put into Strofa — lyrics, chords, notes, PDFs, images, audio and recordings — is yours. We claim no ownership of it. You give us only the limited permission we need to run the service: to store your content, sync it between your devices, share it with the band you choose, and process it in the features you start yourself. Nothing is used for advertising, and nothing is used to train AI models.
You are responsible for having the right to what you upload. Lyrics and chords for songs written by others are normally protected by copyright. Strofa gives you no licence to that material — storing it, printing it or showing it is a matter between you and the rightsholder or your collecting society. The same goes for audio, PDFs, sheet music and photographs. We store the material on your behalf and do not review it.
If a rightsholder comes to us with a well-founded claim that content in Strofa infringes their rights, we may remove it or make it unavailable, and we will tell you why. Repeated or serious infringement can lead to the account being closed.
The band owner decides who is admitted. We do not mediate disputes inside a band about who owns what — agree on that among yourselves.
Several features use an AI model: cleaning up and formatting songs, importing documents and chord charts, reading contracts, suggesting setlists and reports, tagging songs, the Ask Strofa helper, and automatic moderation of audience submissions. The output can be wrong. Check the result before you take it on stage, send it to a promoter or rely on it in any other way. A suggestion is a suggestion, not advice.
The features only run when you start them, apart from the moderation of audience submissions, which is automatic. What is sent, to whom and on what basis is described in the privacy policy. If you would rather not use them, simply leave them alone — everything else in Strofa works without them.
The contract feature is a tool for writing, sending and signing an agreement between you and a promoter. Strofa is not a party to that agreement and gives no legal advice. Templates and suggested wording are a starting point, not a legal review, and we do not guarantee that a contract is valid, enforceable or suitable in your country. The content, the fee and the terms are yours. We store the signing evidence — name, email address, time and IP address — so that you can show the agreement was entered into, but we cannot guarantee how a court will weigh that evidence, and we take no responsibility for the outcome of a dispute between you and a promoter. For anything that really matters, ask a lawyer.
Song requests, the pause quiz and audience photos on the big screen are switched on by the band that is playing. You decide what is shown in the room, and you are responsible for it. Submissions are checked automatically before they appear, but automatic moderation is not perfect: it can let something through and it can stop something harmless. Keep an eye on the screen and use the controls in the app to hide or remove anything that should not be up. If you use the features at a venue, make sure the venue is comfortable with it.
Strofa can control lighting (DMX/Art-Net), send MIDI, drive a screen and take input from a foot pedal. That depends on your network, your hardware and other manufacturers' equipment, and it is your responsibility to test the setup before the show. Do not let Strofa be the only thing standing between you and a working concert — keep a plan B for a tablet that dies, a network that drops out or a pedal that stops responding. We cannot take responsibility for a performance that does not go as planned.
You can publish a public artist page on strofa.no. What you put there is published by you, is visible to anyone and can be indexed by search engines. You are responsible for the content, including photographs of other people and information about the band. You can unpublish the page at any time from the app; write to us at bugs@strofa.no if you want the page and its address deleted entirely. We may take down a page that is unlawful or clearly misused.
Important. Strofa's cloud sync keeps your content consistent across your signed-in devices and with your band. It is a synchronisation service, not a backup service.
That means a change or a deletion travels with it. Delete a song on one device and it disappears on the others, and the band sees it disappear too. Content kept only on a device and never synced is gone if the app is removed.
Take your own backups of what matters. The app has an export that writes a backup file with songs, setlists, gigs, venues, contracts and notes, and an automatic iCloud backup on iPhone and iPad. Note that the backup file does not include audio, recordings or attachments — those are files, and you should keep your own copies of them. We accept no responsibility for the loss of content you have not backed up yourself.
Limits apply so that the service works for everyone. As things stand today:
The limits can change as the service grows. We give notice in the app before anything significant is tightened.
You agree not to:
We work to keep Strofa running, but we do not promise uninterrupted operation. Features may be added, changed or removed as the app develops, and parts of the service depend on providers outside our control. If we remove something important, we say so in the app in advance. You should be able to keep working when the network is down — which is exactly why the app keeps your content on the device.
Strofa is delivered as it is, and we do not promise that it is free of errors or fits every purpose. We do not hide behind that either: if we cause you a loss through negligence, we take the responsibility the law places on us. Within that frame:
Your rights as a consumer stand regardless. Norwegian consumer law gives you rights that cannot be signed away, and nothing here limits liability for personal injury, for intent or gross negligence, or anything else the law does not permit us to limit. If a point in these terms conflicts with mandatory law, the law wins, and the rest of the terms still apply.
You can stop whenever you like. Cancel the subscription in the App Store or Google Play and it runs until the end of the period you have paid for. You can delete the account itself in the app under Settings → About Strofa → Delete account. Deletion is final, and content owned by a band stays with the band.
We can suspend or close an account that is used for something unlawful, that seriously breaches these terms, or that is damaging the service for others. Unless something has to be stopped immediately, we warn you first and give you a chance to put it right. If we close your account without you being in breach, you get back the unused part of what you have paid.
Whatever the reason, you may ask us for a copy of your content before it is deleted, for as long as the account still exists.
We update these terms as the service changes. The date at the top shows the most recent change. For changes that matter to you, we give notice in the app or by email before they take effect, and you can end the subscription if you do not accept them. Minor corrections take effect when they are published.
What personal data we process, why, who it is shared with and how long it is kept is described in the privacy policy, which forms part of this agreement. We do not repeat it here.
Norwegian law governs these terms. If you are a consumer in another EEA country, you also keep the protection given to you by mandatory law where you live.
Talk to us first — most things are settled with an email to bugs@strofa.no. If we cannot agree, a consumer may take the matter to the Norwegian Consumer Authority for mediation and on to the Norwegian Consumer Complaints Board: forbrukertilsynet.no. Otherwise the dispute goes before the ordinary Norwegian courts, with Møre og Romsdal District Court as the agreed venue. A consumer may always bring a case before the court where they live.
Questions about these terms: bugs@strofa.no