Terms
The MIT licence, and the little that sits around it
SpreadPaper is free software. There is no purchase, no subscription and no account, so most of what a normal terms page covers does not apply here. What follows is the part that does.
Last updated 14 September 2026
The licence is the agreement
The app and its source are released under theMIT licence. You may use it for anything, including commercially, and you may copy, change, redistribute and sell it, provided the copyright notice and the licence text travel with it. Where anything on this page appears to contradict the licence, the licence wins.
No warranty
The software is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Nobody is liable for any claim, damage or other liability arising from the software or its use. That is the MIT licence's own wording and it is meant literally: this is a personal project given away for free, not a product with a support contract behind it.
Practically, that means no guarantee it works on your setup, no promised response time, and no commitment that a given feature will keep existing. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this may not apply to you.
Get it from here or from GitHub
Official builds are published only on the project'sGitHub releases page, which is where the download buttons here point. Copies from anywhere else have not been built by us and may be anything at all. Because the app is not signed with a paid Apple Developer ID, macOS will warn you on first launch; the front page explains the two ways through that.
Your images and your wallpapers
Whatever you open in SpreadPaper stays yours. Nothing is claimed over the images you use or the wallpapers the app renders from them, and nothing is uploaded. Making sure you have the right to use a given photograph is up to you. The photographs shown on this site and bundled as examples come from Unsplash under theUnsplash licence, credited in the footer.
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Anything you contribute is taken as offered under the same MIT licence, so that it can be released as part of the project. Issues are public and the usual rule applies: do not put anything in one you would not want read.
The name
The MIT licence covers the code, not the name. Forks are entirely welcome, but please give yours its own name rather than shipping something else called SpreadPaper, so nobody downloads a build expecting this one.
Who and where
SpreadPaper is made by Robin van Baalen in the Netherlands. Dutch law applies to these terms, without affecting any consumer rights you have where you live. Reach the project athello@spreadpaper.app. If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them.
See also the privacy policy.