Pricing · one product · one entitlement

Seven days, then one provider free, then two dollars if you want the rest.

There is no subscription and no recurring charge. The whole commercial model is one seven-day window and one payment, so it is drawn here as one window rather than as three cards to choose between.

Full trial · every provider Free mode · one provider

Days are drawn to scale up to the reset blade at day 7; everything to its right is the rest of time. The $2 unlock is the act that removes the blade: buy, and the window stops mattering because nothing expires again.

Full trial Free mode

Days are drawn to scale up to the reset blade at day 7; everything past it is the rest of time. The $2 unlock removes the blade.

Days 0 to 7 · the trial

A new installation gets a 7-day full trial. No account, no payment method. Every production-ready provider and every paid feature is available during it.

After day 7 · free mode

You choose one provider to keep in free mode at no charge. Setup, the live meter, updates and purchase recovery all stay available. Nothing is taken away except the other four providers and the paid features.

02 / 04 · The prices

One entitlement. Three amounts.

A one-time $2 purchase permanently unlocks multiple providers, local history and activity lines, alerts, pace controls, and later paid features covered by the license.

$2 Permanent unlock One payment. Every provider, every paid feature, forever.

$5 Supporter The identical license. You just think it is worth more.

$10 Supporter Also the identical license. Funds the next provider adapter.

All three issue the identical permanent license. The $5 and $10 supporter prices are a voluntary contribution: they do not create a support tier, a product variant, or any extra entitlement or service level whatsoever.

Not yet · checkout opens at launch

Checkout is not open yet. The licensing service is not deployed, so these controls stay focusable and explain the wait rather than sending you to a page that does not exist. Nothing here takes a payment method, and no signed build has been published to buy for.

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03 / 04 · The license, in plain language

What you actually own for two dollars.

The entitlement is a signed offline license.: The activation service issues a cryptographically signed offline entitlement, stored in your Keychain. The app embeds only the public verification key, so it can check your license without asking anyone.
A licensing-service outage cannot deactivate a purchased copy.: Because verification is offline, the service being down — or gone — does not turn your copy off. Permanent offline behaviour takes precedence over aggressive revocation.
Hosted Stripe Checkout, so this site never touches card data.: Card entry, tax, receipts and payment authentication all happen on Stripe’s hosted checkout. This website has no payment form and no card field anywhere on it. Dipstick never receives card data.
30-day refunds.: A 30-day refund policy applies, and at $2 a verified refund is normally automatic. See the refund policy.
No device limit games.: There is no brittle device count to trip over. Obvious mass abuse is rate-limited; a reasonable number of your own Macs is not a support ticket.

The plain-language terms summary covers the rest. It is a summary and does not modify the binding license that ships with the app.

04 / 04 · If it does not work out

Refunds and recovery.

Within 30 days, ask for a refund and you get one — at this price a verified request is normally automatic and needs no argument. If you reinstall macOS or move to a new machine, purchase recovery gets your license back without emailing anyone. If you would rather ask a person, support@dipstick.tools reaches one.