Pricing

Free now. Fair later.

Here’s the whole timeline, so there are no surprises.

This is show infrastructure. Most productions budget it the way they budget other show gear — not a personal subscription you’re stuck justifying.

Now
Free beta

The whole app, no card. You’re here.

60 days’ notice
Paid plans announced

Every beta user gets two months’ warning before anything costs money.

First 25 buyers
Founding price

Half off the Engineer year or a perpetual license — buyer’s choice.

Always
Early friends stay free

The people who tested first never pay.

Passes — short-term, no commitment

Week pass
$15/ 7 days

One activation.

Month pass
$29/ 30 days

One activation.

Rent-to-own: Every dollar you pay for a Week or Month pass counts as credit toward buying a perpetual license outright later — no expiry, no catch.

Subscription — for a working engineer

Engineer year
$199/yr

All updates for the year, one activation.

Own it — pay once

Perpetual Personal
$349

Own it outright, locked to the version you buy.

Perpetual Pro
$449

Everything in Personal, plus off-site extras we’ll spell out before paid plans start. Coming soon..

Major-version upgrade: 40% of perpetual (~$140). For existing perpetual owners moving to the next major version, whenever one ships.

One activation per license, on one machine at a time. Activate once — after that it works fully offline, no subscription check-ins. Move it to a new computer yourself, anytime; if a computer’s lost or dead, your account page frees it. Free during beta. 60 days’ notice before paid plans start. First 25 buyers pay half, for as long as they stay. Early friends stay free.

Questions

Is it per person?

Neither, exactly — it’s per copy. One license runs one copy, on the device it’s activated on. Buy it yourself and move it between shows as you go, or have the production buy a pass for its show’s machine and let it lapse when the run ends. Both are normal.