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Licence

Activation

How a licence key turns into a working copy of Pip, what gets sent, and what happens when you are offline.

What you bought#

Price
$29, once. No subscription.
Covers
One machine at a time — transferable whenever you like.
Updates
Free, forever.
Offline
A 14-day grace window, revalidated quietly when you are back online.

Activating#

  1. 01

    Open Pip and click the gear in the top-right of the window.

  2. 02

    Paste your licence key. It arrived by email when you bought — have it re-sent if it has gone missing.

  3. 03

    That is the whole ceremony. Pip verifies the key with the licence server, stores it encrypted with Windows DPAPI — tied to your Windows user account on this machine — and revalidates quietly in the background from then on.

What gets sent#

Activation sends your licence key, a salted, truncated hash of the device — a one-way fingerprint just distinctive enough to tell one seat from another — and your machine's name, which becomes the label you see beside the seat. Not your projects, not your ports, nothing from a scan.

The complete data flow, if you want to see the whole picture on one page.

Working offline#

Once activated, Pip keeps working without a connection for 14 days. When you are next online it revalidates in the background — no dialog, no interruption, nothing for you to click.

Note

Aeroplanes, air-gapped machines and long stretches of bad hotel wifi are the normal case here, not an edge case. The grace window is a real feature, not a leniency period.

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