Terms of sale.

Who you're buying from

Brio is designed, built and sold by Jeffery Russell ("I", "me"). Questions about anything on this page go to jeff@jefferyrussell.com.

Orders are processed by an online reseller that acts as the merchant of record for every order. The reseller handles payment, sales tax and VAT, and your receipt, and is named at checkout.

What a licence gets you

• A perpetual licence to use the version of Brio you bought, for as long as you like. It does not expire and nothing renews.
• Every 1.x release for as long as there are 1.x releases. A future Brio 2.0 would be a separate purchase, and you'd keep the version you own either way.
• Two computers at a time, on any mix of macOS, Windows and Linux. You can deactivate a computer and move the seat whenever you like.
• Use for personal and commercial work, including client work.

A licence belongs to one person. Please don't share your key, publish it, resell it, or use it to run Brio for other people.

The free trial

Brio is free to try for 14 days with nothing held back. After that the app still opens, edits and saves; only renders carry a watermark until you enter a licence key. Brio never locks you out of your own projects.

Activation and licence checks

Entering a key activates it on that computer. Brio checks the licence with the licence server from time to time, and keeps working when you're offline. If an order is refunded or charged back, its key is deactivated.

Your work is yours

Everything you make with Brio, including projects, renders and exports, belongs to you. I claim no rights to it.

If you publish a project to Brio Community, you choose to share it publicly under the licence shown when you publish (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 by default). Posts are reviewed before they appear, and I may remove ones that break the law or someone else's rights.

Things that come from elsewhere

Some features use third-party services or components, each under its own terms. The optional AI models (speech detection and AI Matte) are downloaded on demand under their own licences, shown in the app. The Assistant panel and Figma import use accounts and API keys that you provide, under those services' terms. Plugins you install are made by their authors, not by me.

Warranty and liability

I work hard to make Brio reliable, but it's provided "as is", without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows. Save often and keep backups of work that matters.

To the extent the law allows, I'm not liable for indirect or consequential losses (such as lost profits, data or deadlines), and my total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for your licence.

Nothing on this page limits rights you have under the consumer law where you live.

Refunds

See the refund policy.

Changes

If these terms change, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Changes never take away a licence you already bought.