Terms of Service
Effective Nov 12, 2026.
These terms cover buying and using Space. By buying or using Space, you agree to them.
Who we are
Chord Ink is the name under which Jie Zhang, an individual developer operating under the laws of China, publishes Space. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean Jie Zhang, and “you” means the person or business that buys or uses Space.
What Space is
Space is a Mac app. Press the space bar on a file to open it in a Quick Look-style window where you can edit text, code and Markdown. It runs on any Mac with macOS 12 or later, and your files stay on your Mac. You can add plugins from Space’s Settings.
Price and payment
A key costs $7 and lets you use Space on one Mac at a time. An order of more than 100 keys gets 30% off every key, which is $4.90 a key. One order can have up to 1,000 keys. Prices are in US dollars and include tax. The Buy panel shows your order’s price and total before you pay.
You pay once. There is no subscription, and nothing renews.
Waffo Pancake sells Space for us as the merchant of record. Waffo takes your payment, collects the tax and sends your receipt, and Waffo’s buyer terms cover the payment. The charge on your card statement reads CHORD INK. After you pay, we email you a link to your order, which shows your keys and has the download.
Refunds and cancellation
You can ask for a refund within 7 days of buying. Most requests are approved at once. Support reviews some first, such as a repeat refund within 12 months, and replies within 2 business days. If some keys in an order of several are in use, the refund covers the unused keys. An order can be refunded only once. Waffo sends the refund to your original payment method. After 7 days, you can still ask, and support will look at your request.
A refund you ask for ends the license for the keys it covers, and they stop working at Space’s next online check. A full refund ends every key in the order. Support may offer a partial refund instead of a full one. If you accept it, your keys keep working, and it counts as the order’s one refund, so you can’t ask for another refund on that order.
The refund policy has the details and how to ask. It does not limit your rights under local law.
Space is a one-time purchase, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Right of withdrawal in the EU and the UK
If you live in the EU or the UK, the law gives you 14 days to withdraw from a purchase without giving a reason. For digital content such as Space, this right ends once the content is delivered, if you asked for it to be delivered right away and accepted that you lose the right.
Your keys are delivered as soon as you pay. Before you pay, the Buy panel asks you to select a box that says you agree to the EULA and the refund policy. Continue stays off until you select it. By agreeing to the refund policy, you ask for your keys right away and accept that your right of withdrawal ends once they are delivered; the policy’s section on the right of withdrawal says so too. The email with your keys confirms this.
Our refund policy still applies: you can ask for a refund within 7 days, as it describes.
Your license
The EULA covers your use of Space and its plugins. In short, a key lets you use Space on one Mac at a time, for personal or business use, and you may not sell, rent or share it.
Space checks your key with our server when you activate it, then at least every 14 days, so it needs an internet connection now and then. If 14 days pass without a successful check, Space stops opening files and answering the space bar, and plugins and languages can’t be installed or updated, until it can check again. Your key stays saved, and Space still installs its own updates. If our license server ever closes for good, we’ll release a last update that removes the check, so your license keeps working.
The privacy policy says what Space and this site send, and to whom.
If these terms are broken
Space has no accounts: your key is your license. If you break these terms or the EULA, for example by sharing or selling a key or by removing Space’s license check, we can revoke the keys in that order. We can also revoke them when a payment is reversed, such as by a chargeback. A revoked key stops working. If you think we revoked a key by mistake, write to us.
No warranty and limit of liability
Space is provided as it is, without any warranty, as far as the law allows. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, the legal guarantee that digital content matches its description and works as it should still applies to Space. Keep backups of files that matter to you. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for any loss of data, profit or other indirect damage from using Space, and our total liability is limited to what you paid for Space. The EULA has the full wording.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. Changes that reduce your rights are posted on this page 30 days before they take effect. Other changes take effect when they are posted. The effective date at the top of this page shows when the current terms took effect.
Governing law
These terms follow the EULA: the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, govern them wherever you or we live, and disputes go only to the state or federal courts located in Delaware. If you use Space as a consumer, for example in the EU or the UK, you keep the protections that the laws of the country where you live give you and that an agreement cannot waive, and your right to bring a claim in the courts there.
Trademarks
Quick Look, Finder, Mac and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc. Space is not made by or affiliated with Apple.
Logos and icons in the grammar wall
The logos and icons on the home page belong to their owners, and many are trademarks. They are shown to name languages the Syntax plugin colors. Their owners do not make or endorse Space. They show for these grammars:
- ActionScript
- Ada
- Agda
- AsciiDoc
- Assembly
- AWK
- Bash
- Batch
- C
- C#
- Caddyfile
- Cap'n Proto
- Cedar
- Clojure
- CMake
- COBOL
- Common Lisp
- C++
- Crystal
- CSS
- D
- Dart
- Diff
- Dockerfile
- DOT
- Emacs Lisp
- Elixir
- Elm
- Erlang
- Fish
- F#
- .gitattributes
- Gleam
- Go
- GraphQL
- Groovy
- Haskell
- HLSL
- HTML
- Idris
- INI
- Java
- JavaScript
- Jinja2
- jq
- JSON
- Julia
- Just
- Kotlin
- Koto
- Lean
- Lua
- Make
- MATLAB
- Meson
- nginx
- Ninja
- Nix
- OCaml
- Odin
- Perl
- PHP
- PostScript
- PowerShell
- Prolog
- Protocol Buffers
- Pug
- Python
- R
- Rego
- ReScript
- RON
- Ruby
- Rust
- Scala
- Scheme
- SCSS
- Slang
- Solidity
- SPARQL
- SQL
- Starlark
- Styx
- Svelte
- Text Proto
- TLA+
- TOML
- TypeScript
- Typst
- Uiua
- Visual Basic
- Verilog
- VHDL
- Vimscript
- Vue
- WebAssembly
- WIT
- x86 Assembly
- XML
- YAML
- Zig
- Zsh
Dart and the related logo are trademarks of Google LLC. We are not endorsed by or affiliated with Google LLC.
Lean is a trademark of the Lean FRO.
Python and the Python logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Python Software Foundation.