Plan License & Build Safety
Two things in plain English: what you're allowed to do with the designs and plans you make in Sawvy, and what you need to know before you cut wood from them.
The short version
Your designs are yours. Build them, change them, give them away, hang them on your wall.
Build one for yourself on any plan. Free or paid — if you're building it for your own home, or as a gift, you're covered.
Selling what you build needs Premium. Premium includes a commercial-use license for the furniture you make.
Don't resell the plans themselves. The piece you build is yours to sell; the plan document isn't.
Check the numbers before you cut. Sawvy's plans are a strong starting point, not a guarantee — see Build safety below.
Your designs belong to you
When you set dimensions, pick a wood, and shape a piece in Sawvy, that design is yours. We don't claim ownership of it, we don't need a license to it, and we won't sell it. Sawvy has no user account or project sync; your saved designs stay on your device until you delete them or remove the app.
What you can build
On any plan, free or paid: build the piece as many times as you like for yourself, your home, your family, or as a gift. Modify it however you want. Show it off anywhere — photos of furniture you built are yours to post, publish, or enter in a county fair.
With Premium — selling what you build: a Premium subscription includes a commercial-use license. You may sell the physical furniture you build from Sawvy plans — at a market, in a shop, to a client, on Etsy. There's no cap on how many, no royalty, and no reporting.
That license covers pieces you built while your subscription was active, and it survives cancellation — if you built and sold a table as a Premium subscriber, cancelling later doesn't undo it.
What you can't do
- Resell or redistribute the plans themselves. The plan set, cut list, and step-by-step instructions are the product. Selling, publishing, or bulk-sharing those documents isn't covered by any tier — including Premium. The distinction is simple: the furniture is yours to sell, the paperwork isn't.
- Scrape or bulk-export the catalog. Automated extraction of the project catalog, pricing data, or generated plans isn't permitted.
- Present Sawvy's plans as your own plan product. Building and selling a bookshelf: fine. Repackaging our plan sets as your own woodworking course or plan library: not fine.
Build safety — please read this one
Sawvy's plans are a starting point, not a guarantee. Every plan is generated from a parametric model and checked by automated geometry, structural, and build-instruction rules. That catches a great deal — but it is not a substitute for your own judgment at the bench.
Verify before you cut. Measure your actual stock. Dry-fit before glue. Wood varies, tools vary, and a number on a screen doesn't know that your board has a knot in the wrong place.
Anything that holds weight or holds a person deserves extra scrutiny — shelves carrying real load, anything mounted to a wall, and above all anything suspended or sat upon. Use hardware rated for the load, anchor into real structure (studs, joists, solid framing — not drywall alone), and test carefully before trusting it with a person.
Power tools cause serious injuries. Follow the safety instructions that came with your tools, use guards and eye protection, and don't attempt a cut you're not comfortable with. If a step in a Sawvy plan asks you to do something that feels unsafe with the tools you own, stop — that's your judgment overriding ours, and it should.
Sawvy is provided without warranty, and Forging Tomorrow isn't liable for injury, damage, or loss arising from building or using a piece designed in the app. You are responsible for the safety of what you build.
If a number looks wrong, tell us. A bad dimension or a bad instruction is the most serious kind of bug we can ship, and we'd rather hear about it than not. How to report it →
Changes to this license
If this changes materially, we'll update the date at the top and note it in the app. Rights you already have to pieces you've already built won't be taken away retroactively.
Questions
Email privacy@forgingtomorrow.com. If you're planning to sell what you build and want to be sure you're covered, just ask — a plain answer costs us nothing.