Buy it once.

If it is going on a company card

There is no business edition. A bar, a museum and a living room buy the same licence at the same price, through the same button above. What changes for a room you are billed for is who has to approve it — so here is what those two people usually want.

What the licence replaces

What one licence covers

One licence activates one Mac at a time. The seat is registered under that Mac’s own name, which is how the provider identifies it, and a second Mac will not activate while the first still holds it.

The seat moves. Settings → License → “Deactivate this Mac…” hands it back so the same key can be entered on another machine, and the Mac you release goes back to carrying the mark. That button is in the app, on the Mac holding the seat — and releasing it asks the provider to free it without waiting for an answer, so do it from the machine you are retiring, while you still have it.

Procurement sees it once

One payment, and no renewal date to diarise. A licence key is not rented: once the app holds one it treats that Mac as licensed for good, so nothing expires, nothing has to be re-approved next year, and no invoice arrives to be matched against a budget line. Updates within the major version are included.

What IT is signing off

There is no account. Nothing to provision, no directory to join, no password to rotate — you download the app, and a licence is a key somebody pastes into Settings → License.

Before it is licensed, it makes no licence request at all

The launch check is skipped outright unless the app is already holding a key, so a free or trial Mac never contacts the store.

Once licensed, it re-checks that key at launch

It posts the licence key and the id of the seat it holds to live.dodopayments.com, the provider that issued them; the first activation also sends the Mac’s own name, which is what labels that seat. That is the entire request. No audio, no file names, no usage.

It looks for updates

It fetches a signed update feed from github.com on a background schedule and prompts you when a newer signed build exists — a request that necessarily carries your IP address and the app version, as any download does.

Those two are the only places it reaches the internet

The app links two third-party dependencies: the updater, and an analytics SDK that ships switched off — it has no project key, and a master switch every reporting path checks first. There is no advertising and nothing is reported about you. Audio is analysed on the Mac, in memory, and the app never sends it anywhere.

A room that loses its connection keeps working

If the licence check cannot reach the provider the app touches nothing and asks again next launch. A dead network never puts the mark back on a Mac you paid for.

Everything else is opt-in and stays on the machine

The local control endpoint an AI assistant drives is off until you switch it on, and it binds to 127.0.0.1 — it refuses any connection that is not from the same Mac. OSC and MIDI talk to your own network and your own hardware.

More than one room

There is no volume rate published here and no business edition to ask about, but there is somebody to ask. If you are putting this in several rooms or across several sites, write to us before you roll it out.

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