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title: "Licence and updates"
description: "The Free tier never expires. Licensed features stay visible in it. Choosing one opens Settings › Licence."
url: https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/licence
---
# Licence and updates

## Free and licensed

| Free | Licence |
|---|---|
| Display, Window, Area and Frame capture | Code Lens |
| Notch View, Peek View and Expanded View | Inline Agent |
| The Capture Editor | Smart capture |
| The Library | Projects, tags and moving captures between Projects |
| Shortcuts, previews, retention, Keep | Screenshot context for agents |
| | Hooks |

The Free tier never expires. Licensed features stay visible in it. Choosing
one opens Settings › Licence.

A Licence is a one-time purchase. It covers up to two Macs, is yours for
good, and includes twelve months of updates.

## Activating

- Paste the `BIGS-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX` key into Settings › Licence and click
  **Activate**. Case, dashes and spaces do not matter.
- Or click **Activate in Bigshot** in the purchase email.

Once a key activates, Bigshot offers the Code map's image model, which lets
Code Lens match on what things look like as well as text. It runs on this
Mac and is a 390 MB download. **Download** starts it and **Not Now** skips
it; either way the offer is not shown again, and the model stays in
Settings › General.

The key is kept in the Keychain. Bigshot checks it with the server at launch
and once a day. Being offline, or the server being down, never takes a
Licence away. Only a refund, a revoked or replaced key, or this Mac's seat
being given to another Mac does.

## Moving to another Mac

The Licence page shows **Active on N of 2 Macs**. **Deactivate this Mac**
frees its seat. **Manage…** opens the licence page on bigshot.pics, where a
seat can be freed from a Mac you no longer have. **Lost your key?** on the
Free page opens the same site, where the key can be looked up.

## The upgrade prompt

The Free tier asks once, fourteen days after the first launch, and at most
once more, thirty days after **Not now**. It never asks once a key is entered.
The price it shows, and the one on Settings › Licence, is read from
bigshot.pics, so a launch discount appears and ends without an update.

## Updates

See [Settings › General › Updates](https://www.bigshot.pics/docs/settings#updates). Updates are
downloaded as a disk image. Before copying the new version across, delete
the old `/Applications/Bigshot.app`, since macOS caches the app icon by its
path.