You own it. All of it.
Uploading a track to Wavely transfers nothing. You keep every right you had in the recording and the composition before you arrived, and you own the master we produce from it, in full, for ever.
We take no share, no royalty, no publishing, no credit and no option on anything. You do not have to name Wavely when you release it. There is nothing to buy back later and nothing that expires: a master you made here is yours to sell, licence, stream or shelve, and we have no say in any of it.
What you let us do, and nothing beyond it
To master a track we have to receive the file, keep it while you are working, read it, process it and hand the result back to you. That is the whole permission we need and the whole permission we ask for: a licence to do those things, for that purpose, for as long as we hold the files — 7 days unless you delete them sooner.
It is not transferable and we grant it to nobody else. When the files go, it goes with them.
What we will never do with it
- Never train anything on it— not our models, not anyone else’s. The presets Wavely masters against are measured from commercial records we bought, never from what users upload.
- Never publish, play or show it. Not in a demo, not on the site, not in a pitch, not as an example of what the product does — unless you have told us we may, for that specific track, in writing.
- Never send the audio anywhere. It does not leave our servers. When you describe the sound you want, the text you typed and eight measurements of the file — loudness, peak, dynamic range, brightness, clipping, sample rate, length, channels — go to Anthropic, which decides the settings. The audio itself is never part of that.
- Never sell it, licence it, or hand it to a third party, for any purpose, including ones we might invent later.
What we need from you
Upload only what you have the right to upload.Your own recording, or someone else’s with their permission. We have no way of telling the difference, and by sending us a file you are telling us you hold those rights.
If a rights-holder tells us a track here is theirs and should not be, we will remove it and the masters made from it. That is the only circumstance in which we touch your files without you asking.
Getting it back, and getting rid of it
Download anything you want to keep — the files are deleted after 7 days either way. Deleting a master from your list removes it and its audio immediately, and closing your account takes your history with it.
The privacy policy has the detail: what is stored, for how long, and which buttons do what.
What this page is
A plain statement of how Wavely works, and it is accurate — the behaviour it describes is enforced by the software and checked by the test suite, not just promised here.
It is not the terms of service. Those need a lawyer, they are being written, and they will not contradict this page: if the two ever disagree, that is our mistake and this is what we meant.
Last updated: 23 September 2026