Free use
You can use both tools free. Studio includes every style, the full board, the live mixing desk, the track editor, and 30-second WAV downloads. The Ambient board's controls and exports are free, including longer loops, stems, MIDI, and theme packs. Free audio may be used in personal, non-commercial projects, including hobby videos, personal streams, study playlists, prototypes, and class projects. No attribution required.
Two commercial licenses
Both are a one-time purchase, never a subscription, so your published work can never retroactively lose its license. They grant a perpetual, worldwide right to use your generated audio in commercial projects without limit on project count or revenue: client work, monetized videos and podcasts, livestreams and VODs, games, apps, in-store or venue playback, film and advertising.
- Sonodrift Studio: $49. Unlocks tracks up to 5 minutes, the provenance certificate, MIDI and per-role stems, loudness targets, A/B compare, saved presets, editor Save and Load, and configured cloud connections, for all 17 styles. A Studio license also covers everything an Ambience license does, so it is the single license for the whole site.
- Sonodrift Ambience: $19. The commercial-use license for the Ambient board, covering use of its (freely generated) loops, stems, and theme packs in paid work. The Ambient board itself is free; this grants the commercial rights, not new features.
Royalty-free means the license charges no per-use royalty: pay once and use your exports in your projects without counting uses, views, or revenue. It does not mean copyright cannot exist in a track, or that no platform or third party can ever make a mistaken claim.
The one thing you may not do (free or licensed): resell or redistribute the raw audio files as audio, for example by republishing generated tracks as a stock-music library, sample pack, or competing catalog. Use them in things; don't sell them as the thing.
Nonexclusive outputs
Sonodrift outputs are nonexclusive: the same or a similar track may be generated by or licensed to someone else. Do not enroll an unmodified export, or its stems, loops, or lightly modified versions, as a reference in Content ID, Rights Manager, or any other automated copyright-claiming system, and do not represent it as exclusively yours. Your completed project remains yours to register or claim to the extent the law permits; exclude the Sonodrift source audio from any automated exclusive reference.
How this audio is made
Every track is synthesized in your browser, deterministically, from your seed and settings. Licensed, unedited Studio exports include a certificate recording exactly how the audio was produced; re-rendering with the same inputs and engine version reproduces the identical file, so the record is verifiable rather than a promise. Verify one yourself →
The honest fine print
- We can't give legal advice, and this page isn't a substitute for it in high-stakes uses.
- If a platform flags a Studio track, its certificate documents how the track was generated, providing evidence you can use to dispute a misidentification.
- Verification requires the engine version that issued the certificate. A build missing that version reports it as unsupported, rather than marking the audio invalid.
- Refunds: see the refund policy below for the 14-day conditional guarantee.
Refund policy
Due to the digital nature of this web-based tool, all sales of one-time license activation codes are final, subject to the following 14-day conditional guarantee:
- Eligibility. You may request a full refund within 14 calendar days of your purchase date, provided the activation code sent to your email has not been redeemed or validated. Redeeming means activating the app with your code. Activation is a step you choose. Nothing is activated for you: when you return from checkout the site asks first, and says that activating ends this window. Declining costs you nothing. Your code stays valid, and you can activate it whenever you are ready.
- Technical exceptions. If an unresolvable technical defect prevents the software from functioning on your system, submit a support request to support@sonodrift.com within the 14-day window with documentation of the error (for example, browser console output or screenshots).
- Forfeiture. Once an activation code is redeemed or validated, or 14 days have passed, no refunds will be issued except as provided under Technical Exceptions.
Eligible refunds are processed automatically, to your original payment method; banks typically post them within 5–10 business days. A partial goodwill refund, where we offer one, never cancels a license.