--- title: "License, activation and updates" description: "One AnyBucket license covers two Macs and works offline for up to seven days. How to activate, move it to another Mac, deactivate in Polar's portal and update." url: https://anybucket.app/support/license-and-updates lang: en --- # Your license and your updates A one-time purchase for two Macs, checked quietly with Polar. Here's how activation, offline use, moving to a new Mac and updates work. ## The short answer - **$9.99, once**, bought through Polar, with tax added at checkout where it applies. - **One license covers two Macs.** Use the same key on both. - **Offline for up to seven days** after the last successful license check. - **Moving to a new Mac?** Deactivate under **AnyBucket → Manage License…**, or remove the old Mac in the [Polar customer portal](https://polar.sh/nina-labs-ai-llc/portal). - **Updates:** AnyBucket checks once a day and opens the download page when a new version is out. It never installs anything by itself. ## Buying AnyBucket costs $9.99, once. There's no subscription and no account. It's sold through Polar, the store behind every Clever Mechanisms app: you pay with your email address, and Polar takes you to your purchase, where you download the app and copy your license key. Your purchase stays in the [Polar customer portal](https://polar.sh/nina-labs-ai-llc/portal). Sign in with the email you bought it with to download the app again, copy your key or see the Macs it's active on. ## Activating Open AnyBucket and paste your license key when it asks. That's the activation. - Activating creates a random installation ID for this copy of AnyBucket, with a label like **Mac · 1a2b3c4d** in the portal. It never uses your Mac's name or its hardware identifiers. - The key, the activation and the time of the last check are kept in a device-only keychain item on this Mac (`dev.rolottr.AnyBucket.polar`). It doesn't sync to your other Macs. - Updating or reopening AnyBucket reuses the same activation. It doesn't use up another Mac. Manage the license under **AnyBucket → Manage License…** or **Settings → License**. **About AnyBucket** shows it too. ## Two Macs per license One license covers two Macs. Install AnyBucket on the second Mac and paste the same key. Polar counts the activations, so a third Mac needs one of the first two to be deactivated. ## Moving to another Mac Removing the app from a Mac doesn't free its place. Before you move, do one of these: 1. **On the old Mac:** choose **AnyBucket → Manage License…** and deactivate. 2. **From anywhere:** open the [Polar customer portal](https://polar.sh/nina-labs-ai-llc/portal), find your AnyBucket license and remove the Mac you no longer use. Then activate on the new Mac with the same key. If you deactivate a Mac in the portal while AnyBucket is running there, it asks for a license again at its next check. ## Working offline AnyBucket checks your license with Polar at activation, at launch, when it comes to the front and every 15 minutes while it runs. Each check sends the license key, the activation ID and the random installation ID. Nothing about your servers or your files. After a successful check, AnyBucket keeps working offline for up to seven days. Only an explicit refusal from Polar, such as a license that was deactivated or doesn't match, locks AnyBucket at once. Anything that isn't a verdict counts as offline: no network, a hotel's captive portal, a proxy's page, or Polar unreachable or rate-limiting requests. When you're back online, the next check renews the seven days. ## Updates Once a day, AnyBucket asks clevermechanisms.dev for its latest version number: a plain request, with nothing about you or your servers in it. When a newer version is out, it opens the download page. It never downloads or installs anything by itself. - **Check now:** choose **AnyBucket → Check for Updates…**. - **Turn the daily check off:** **Settings → General → Updates**. - **What's new:** every release is in [the changelog](https://anybucket.app/changelog). To update, open your purchase in the [Polar customer portal](https://polar.sh/nina-labs-ai-llc/portal), download the new ZIP, unzip it and replace AnyBucket in your Applications folder. Your license, bookmarks, workspaces and transfer queue stay as they were: the activation is reused, and everything else lives in `~/Library/Application Support/AnyBucket/` and your keychain. ## Privacy The license check and the update check are the only connections AnyBucket makes besides your own servers. The [privacy policy](https://anybucket.app/privacy) lists exactly what each one sends. ## Questions, answered ### How do I pay for it? Once: AnyBucket is $9.99 for two Macs, with no yearly fee and no account. ### AnyBucket asks for the license again. Why? Either it has been offline for more than seven days since its last successful check, or Polar refused the activation, for example because the Mac was removed in the customer portal. Go online, or choose **AnyBucket → Manage License…**, deactivate and activate again. See [troubleshooting](https://anybucket.app/support/troubleshooting#license). ### I reinstalled macOS. Do I lose a Mac? The old activation still counts until you remove it. Open the [Polar customer portal](https://polar.sh/nina-labs-ai-llc/portal), remove the old entry for that Mac, and activate again. ### What does the update check send? Only a plain request for AnyBucket's public version number, with nothing beyond what any web request carries, such as your IP address. Turn it off under **Settings → General → Updates**. ### Where do I download a new version? From your purchase in the Polar customer portal. AnyBucket opens [the download page](https://anybucket.app/download) when a new version is out, and that page links to your purchase. ## Read next - [Buy and download for Mac](https://anybucket.app/download) - [Release notes](https://anybucket.app/changelog) - [Privacy and network connections](https://anybucket.app/privacy) - [Getting started](https://anybucket.app/support/getting-started) **Buy for $9.99:** https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_pCF9yOjezTUaUqMPyUsxEho1EjcOvo6Bk49Q929LQCQ --- AnyBucket is independent software by [Clever Mechanisms](https://clevermechanisms.dev). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple Inc. or any storage provider. Independent software in the spirit of Cyberduck and the classic two-pane commanders. Not affiliated with iterate GmbH (Cyberduck). Apple, Mac, macOS, Finder and Quick Look are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. 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