Pulsar Terms of Use

The agreement between you and Software Mansion for Pulsar Studio, the Pulsar Figma plugin, the Pulsar live preview and the Pulsar mobile app.

Last updated: 7 September 2026

1. Who you are contracting with

Pulsar is provided by Software Mansion S.A., a joint-stock company with its registered office at ul. Zabłocie 43B, 30-701 Kraków, Poland, entered in the register of entrepreneurs of the National Court Register kept by the District Court for Kraków-Śródmieście in Kraków, XI Commercial Division of the National Court Register, under KRS number 0000961952, NIP 6793131302, REGON 364909814, share capital PLN 1,081,081.90 paid up in full ("Software Mansion", "we", "us"). In these terms, "you" means the person or organization using Pulsar.

You can reach us about anything in this document at projects@swmansion.com.

2. What Pulsar is

Pulsar is a toolkit for designing haptic feedback - the vibrations a phone produces in response to what happens on screen. It has four parts, and these terms cover all of them:

• Pulsar Studio - a web editor for designing haptic patterns, at pulsar.swmansion.com/studio.
• The Pulsar Figma plugin - attaches haptic patterns to layers in a Figma file.
• The live preview - a web page that embeds a Figma prototype and plays the attached haptics, opened through a link a designer shares.
• The Pulsar mobile app - plays those haptics on a real iOS or Android device once it is paired with a design session.

We also publish open-source Pulsar SDKs. Those are licensed separately under the license shipped with each package, and these terms do not restrict your rights under it.

3. Accepting these terms

You accept these terms by creating a Pulsar account, installing or using the Figma plugin, opening a Pulsar live preview link, or using the Pulsar mobile app. If you do not accept them, do not use Pulsar.

If you are using Pulsar on behalf of an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to accept these terms for it, and "you" means that organization.

4. Accounts

Pulsar Studio and the Figma plugin require a Pulsar account. One account covers both. The live preview does not require an account for the person opening a shared link, and the mobile app does not require one to play haptics sent to it.

• Age. Pulsar is a professional design tool. You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.
• Accurate details. Give us a real email address and keep it current - it is how we reach you about your subscription and about changes to the service.
• Security. Keep your credentials to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account, unless it happens because of something we did wrong. Tell us promptly if you think your account has been compromised.
• One account, one person. Accounts are personal. Do not share one across a team - buy a seat each instead.

You can also open Pulsar Studio without an account, as a guest. Guest work lives in your browser tab only: it is never saved to our servers, it cannot be shared, and it is gone when you close the tab. Sign in before you make anything you want to keep.

Connected tools and AI agents

Studio lets you link an external tool or AI agent - for example through the Pulsar MCP integration - and give it the ability to drive your open Studio session: to create and edit patterns, import media, and send haptics to your paired phone.

Anything a linked agent does is treated as done by you, and you are responsible for it. Only link tools you trust, and remember that whatever you link can read the project you have open. You can see what is linked, and unlink it, from Studio at any time. We do not control third-party agents and are not responsible for what they do with access you granted them.

5. Your license to use Pulsar

For as long as you comply with these terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use Pulsar for its intended purpose: designing, previewing and exporting haptic feedback, including for commercial products.

You may not:

• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of Pulsar, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits it despite this restriction - notably for interoperability under Art. 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC;
• resell, sublicense, rent or offer Pulsar as a service to third parties, or use it to build a competing product;
• circumvent the plan limits, the paywall, the trial mechanism, or any technical measure that enforces them;
• use automated means to access Pulsar at a volume that degrades it for others, or scrape it beyond what a normal client does.

6. Your content

You own it

Haptic patterns you design, the projects that hold them, the audio and animation files you upload, and the exports you produce remain yours. We claim no ownership of them, and using Pulsar puts no licensing obligation on the products you ship them in - no royalty, no attribution.

The license you give us

To run the service, we need permission to handle your content. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to store, copy, transmit, adapt and display your content solely to operate and secure Pulsar for you - for example, to save a pattern, render it in the editor, send it to your paired phone, or show it to someone you gave a share link to. This license exists for no other purpose. It ends when you delete the content or your account, except for backups already taken, which age out on our ordinary backup cycle.

We do not use your content to train machine-learning models, and we do not use it for advertising.

What you are responsible for

You confirm that you have the rights to everything you upload - in particular audio and animation files, which are frequently licensed rather than owned - and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights or break any law. If you do not hold those rights, do not upload the file.

Storage limits

Accounts have limits - on how many projects and patterns a free account can hold, on the size of an individual audio or animation file, and on total storage per account. The current limits are shown in Studio, under Settings. A file that does not fit stays in your browser rather than on our servers, which means it is not backed up and not available on your other devices.

Backups

We take backups so we can recover the service, not so we can recover your work on request. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose. Project export is a paid feature; if you are not subscribed and want your work out, ask us at projects@swmansion.com and we will help you get it.

7. Using the Figma plugin

The plugin runs inside Figma, and your use of Figma is governed by Figma's own terms, not ours. We are not affiliated with Figma, Inc.

What the plugin writes into your file

Attaching a haptic preset to a layer is an edit to your Figma file. Specifically, the plugin writes:

• plugin data on the layer recording which preset is attached - both a private copy and a shared copy, so design-to-code tooling can read it. The shared copy is readable by anyone with access to the file, by other plugins, and through Figma's REST API;
• a "Play haptic" relaunch button on the layer;
• a Dev Mode annotation on the enclosing screen, so a developer reading the file can see it has haptics. You can turn this off in Account → Privacy → Annotate screens for developers, which also removes the annotations already placed;
• an opaque identifier for the file, and the Figma file key you enter for the live preview, on the file's root node.

These edits mark the file as edited and appear in its version history, like any other change. Removing a preset removes them. The plugin never alters your layers, text, images, styles or layout.

You are responsible for having the right to make these edits to the file you use the plugin on.

Companion requirements

The plugin requires a Pulsar account and an active Pulsar Haptics plugin entitlement (a free trial or a paid plan). Feeling haptics on real hardware additionally requires the free Pulsar mobile app on a supported device. Everything else works in the browser.

8. Share links and the live preview

Pulsar has two kinds of share link, and they behave differently. In both cases, anyone holding the link can read what it points at - there is no sign-in, no per-recipient access control and no automatic expiry. Treat a share link as public.

• A Studio share link is created live. From the moment you press "Create a share link", anyone with it can open your patterns.
• A Figma live preview is created private, and becomes readable by anyone with the link only when you share it - when you copy the link, open the preview in a browser, or copy a preview token. Pairing a phone to your own session does not make anything public.

You can revoke a link at any time - in Studio from the Share panel, in the plugin from the Share tab. Revoking stops the link working immediately, and sharing again issues a fresh link, so the old one stays dead.

Pairing a phone to your own session does not make anything public.

You are responsible for what you publish through a share link, and for making sure you are allowed to publish it. If you believe a Pulsar share link infringes your rights or breaks the law, write to projects@swmansion.com with the link and an explanation, and we will review it and act where the report is justified.

9. The mobile app and haptics

The mobile app plays vibration patterns on your device. A few things follow from that:

• Hardware differs. How a pattern feels depends on the device's actuator and on the operating system. A pattern designed on one phone will not feel identical on another, and some devices cannot reproduce some patterns at all. This is a property of haptics, not a defect.
• Comfort and health. Prolonged or intense vibration can be uncomfortable. If you have a condition affected by vibration or by rapidly-changing sensory stimuli, use your judgment, and stop if it is unpleasant. Pulsar is a design tool, not a medical or safety device - do not use it in any setting where a missed or mistimed vibration could cause harm.
• Updates. The app updates itself, including over the air, so you are running a current and secure version.

10. Acceptable use

Do not use Pulsar to:

• break the law, or infringe anyone's intellectual property or privacy;
• upload malware, or content that is unlawful, abusive, or sexual content involving minors;
• attack the service - probe, scan or test its security without our written permission, overload it, or try to reach data or accounts that are not yours;
• impersonate someone else, or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or organization;
• remove or obscure any notice of ownership in Pulsar or in anything it produces.

Responsible security research is welcome. Report what you find to projects@swmansion.com and give us a reasonable chance to fix it before disclosing.

11. Plans, billing and trials

What is free and what is paid

Designing patterns in Studio is free, within the limits a free account has on the number of projects and patterns it can hold. Exporting from Studio requires a subscription. The Figma plugin requires an entitlement - a trial or a paid plan - before it will do anything at all. The mobile app and the live preview are free.

Plans

We offer three plans - Studio Solo, Plugin Solo and Bundle (both) - each billed monthly or annually. The current prices and what each plan includes are shown at checkout, and those are the terms that apply to your purchase.

The free trial

The Pulsar Haptics plugin offers a free trial that you start yourself from a button in the plugin. It needs no payment card, it does not convert into a paid subscription, and it simply ends - nothing is charged, and you are not billed unless you separately choose a plan. One trial per account. The trial length is shown in the plugin when you start it. Studio has no trial; its export is subscription-only.

Payment

Payments are processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the merchant and seller of record for the sale: Lemon Squeezy is the seller on your invoice, it collects VAT and other applicable taxes, and its own buyer terms govern the payment transaction - you accept them at checkout, so they are worth a read. We never see or store your card details. Software Mansion remains the provider of the Pulsar service, licenses it to you, and is who you deal with under these terms.

Renewal and cancellation

• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period at the then-current price, until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time from Subscription in Studio. Canceling stops the next renewal; your access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for. We do not pro-rate a part-used period.
• If a payment fails, we may retry it and, if it keeps failing, suspend the paid features until it succeeds.
• When a subscription ends, your account and your patterns stay - you simply lose the paid features, such as export and the plugin.

Price changes

We may change prices. If a change affects a subscription you already hold, we will tell you by email at least 30 days before it takes effect, and it will only apply from your next renewal. You can cancel before then if you do not want to pay the new price.

12. Right of withdrawal and refunds

Pulsar is digital content supplied immediately, and the law lets that right fall away once supply has begun with your prior express consent and your acknowledgment that you are giving the right up - Art. 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU. Because Lemon Squeezy is the seller of record, that consent and acknowledgment are given through Lemon Squeezy's buyer terms, which you accept at checkout, and they bite when your subscription activates and the paid features unlock.

Nothing here limits your statutory rights where the service is faulty or does not match its description. If Pulsar does not conform to what we promised, you are entitled to have it brought into conformity, and to a price reduction or a refund where that is not possible - see section 17.

Business customers have no right of withdrawal. Payments are otherwise non-refundable except where these terms or the law say otherwise, though we will always look at a fair request.

13. Changes to Pulsar

Pulsar is actively developed. We add, change and remove features, and we may do so without notice where the change is minor. If we make a change that materially reduces what a paid plan you hold provides, we will tell you in advance by email, and you may cancel and receive a pro-rata refund of the unused part of your current period.

Features labeled beta, preview or early access are exactly that: they may be unstable, may change substantially, and may be withdrawn. They are provided as-is.

If we discontinue Pulsar altogether, we will give at least 30 days' notice, keep export working through that period, and refund the unused part of any subscription you have paid for.

14. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Pulsar and delete your account at any time. Deleting your account deletes your projects and uploaded files - export anything you want to keep first.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if your use threatens the security or integrity of the service. Except where the breach is serious or where notice would defeat the purpose, we will tell you first and give you a reasonable opportunity to put it right. If we terminate your account for a reason that is not your fault, we will refund the unused part of your subscription.

Sections 6 (as to ownership), 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 survive termination.

15. Our intellectual property

Pulsar - its software, interfaces, designs, documentation, the Pulsar name and logo, and the built-in preset library - belongs to Software Mansion and its licensors, and is protected by copyright and trade mark law. These terms grant you the right to use Pulsar; they transfer nothing.

Built-in presets you use in your work are covered by the license in section 5: use them in your products freely, but do not redistribute the preset library itself as a competing library.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them to improve Pulsar without obligation to you. That does not give us any right to the content you create.

16. Third-party services

Pulsar works with services we do not control - Figma, the Apple App Store and Google Play, our payment processor, and the hosting and diagnostic providers listed in the Privacy Policy. Your use of those services is governed by their terms, and we are not responsible for them. If one of them changes or stops working, some Pulsar features may change or stop working with it.

17. Warranties and conformity

If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, we owe you the statutory guarantee that Pulsar conforms to the contract - that it matches its description, is fit for the purpose digital services of this kind are normally used for, and is supplied with the updates you were told about. That guarantee is Directive (EU) 2019/770 in the EU and the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the UK, and nothing in these terms limits it. Tell us at projects@swmansion.com and we will put it right.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent the law allows, Pulsar is provided "as is" and "as available", and we disclaim all other warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. In particular we do not warrant that Pulsar will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that it will work with every device or operating system, or that a haptic pattern will feel the same on different hardware.

18. Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, for liability under mandatory product liability law, or for anything else that cannot be excluded under the law that applies to you. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected by this section.

Subject to that:

• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, nor for loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, or anticipated savings;
• we are not liable for loss or corruption of your content, beyond restoring it from our routine backups where we can. Keeping your own copies is your responsibility (see section 6);
• our total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Pulsar in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or EUR 100.

19. Indemnity (business users)

If you are not a consumer, you will indemnify Software Mansion against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your content, from your use of Pulsar in breach of these terms, or from your infringement of a third party's rights. We will tell you promptly about any such claim and let you control the defense of it, and we will not settle it without your consent.

20. Complaints and disputes

If something is wrong, write to projects@swmansion.com. We aim to answer complaints within 14 days, and we would much rather sort a problem out directly than argue about it.

These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by Polish law, and the courts of Kraków, Poland have jurisdiction.

If you are a consumer, that choice does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of the country where you live (Art. 6 of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008), and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your own country of domicile as well as in Poland (Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012). You may also be entitled to use an out-of-court dispute resolution scheme; in Poland, the Trade Inspection (Inspekcja Handlowa) and the district consumer ombudsman (powiatowy rzecznik konsumentów) can help, free of charge.

21. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms - for instance when we add a feature, change a plan, or the law changes. When we do, we will update the date at the top.

If a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in the product before it takes effect. Continuing to use Pulsar after that means you accept the new terms; if you do not accept them, cancel before they take effect and we will refund the unused part of your current billing period. Changes required by law may take effect sooner where the law demands it.

22. General

• Whole agreement. These terms, the Privacy Policy, and the plan details shown at checkout are the whole agreement between us about Pulsar.
• Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the provision is read down to the minimum extent necessary.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a term once does not waive it.
• Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. We may transfer ours to a group company or an acquirer of the business, provided your rights are not reduced.
• Force majeure. Neither of us is liable for a failure caused by something genuinely beyond our reasonable control.
• Language. These terms are written in English, and the English version governs.