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PanoPaper Pro

PanoPaper starts with a 7-day free trial. When the trial ends, it keeps working as the free version - every feature, with “UNLICENSED” across every camera picture - unless you buy PanoPaper Pro, as a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Free and Pro

Free Pro
Every feature: live video, a camera on every display and Space, All Cameras, camera audio, detections, PTZ cameras, live broadcasts Yes Yes
“UNLICENSED” across every camera picture Yes -

The free trial

The trial starts the first time you open PanoPaper and lasts seven days. In the Web Edition, it needs to reach panopaper.app once to begin - until then PanoPaper runs as the free version, and the trial's days do not count. A row at the bottom of the menu bar panel counts them down - "6 days left in trial" - and Settings ▸ License shows them too. Click it to see what PanoPaper Pro costs.

When the trial ends, a window explains what changes. Everything keeps working just as you set it up; only the stamp comes.

The free version

The free version does everything PanoPaper Pro does, with “UNLICENSED” and panopaper.app across every camera picture: on your desktop and in Full Screen, on the menu bar panel's tiles and in the Settings previews, in your live broadcasts, and in the pictures that notifications and shortcuts get. It is filled with PanoPaper's colors and slowly swings from one corner of the picture to the other. With Reduce Motion on in System Settings ▸ Accessibility ▸ Motion (▸ Display on macOS 15), it stays still.

Buy PanoPaper Pro and the stamp goes at once, everywhere - a live broadcast keeps going without it.

Buying PanoPaper Pro

Each edition sells PanoPaper Pro its own way: in the Web Edition from panopaper.app, with a license key; in the App Store Edition from the Mac App Store, with your Apple Account. A purchase in one edition does not unlock the other.

In the App Store Edition

  1. Click the trial's row (or Free version) at the bottom of the menu bar panel.
  2. Click Yearly or Lifetime to select it - the prices are the App Store's, in your currency - then click the Buy button under them.
  3. Confirm the purchase in the App Store's sheet. PanoPaper Pro unlocks right away - and PanoPaper celebrates.

PanoPaper Pro then works on every Mac signed in to the App Store with the same Apple Account. On another Mac, or after reinstalling, click 'Restore Purchases' in the upgrade window or in Settings ▸ License if Pro does not show by itself.

A yearly subscription is managed by the App Store: 'Manage Subscription' in the upgrade window, or 'Manage…' in Settings ▸ License, opens your subscriptions there - cancel or renew. When it ends, PanoPaper goes back to the free version; renew it and Pro comes back by itself.

In the Web Edition

  1. Click the trial's row (or Free version) at the bottom of the menu bar panel.
  2. Click Yearly or Lifetime to select it, then click the Buy button under them - it names the plan and its price. The checkout opens in your web browser; payments are handled by Polar, the store behind PanoPaper.
  3. After paying, the thank-you page shows your license key. Click 'Activate PanoPaper' - if your browser asks whether to open PanoPaper, click 'Allow'. PanoPaper opens on Settings ▸ License, unlocks Pro on this Mac - and celebrates.

PanoPaper did not open? Copy the key from the thank-you page, then click 'Enter License Key…' in the upgrade window or in Settings ▸ License. Your key is also on your account page.

One license key works on up to three Macs.

The rest of this page is about the Web Edition's license keys.

Entering your license key

A key you have copied is filled in for you. Click 'Activate': PanoPaper checks the key, unlocks Pro on this Mac right away, celebrates, and confirms that this Mac is now licensed. Click 'OK' and the upgrade window closes. If the key is refused, the sheet says why - see Troubleshooting.

Managing a subscription

'Manage Subscription' in the upgrade window, or 'Manage…' in Settings ▸ License, opens your account page in the browser: cancel or renew, update your card, find your receipts or your license key.

When a yearly subscription ends, PanoPaper goes back to the free version at its next check - within a day. Renew it, and PanoPaper Pro comes back by itself at the next check; there is no need to enter the key again.

Moving to another Mac

Moved to a new Mac with Migration Assistant? PanoPaper Pro keeps working there by itself: the first time PanoPaper opens on the new Mac, it activates your license key for that Mac, which counts as one of its three Macs. Your old Mac keeps its own - if you no longer use it, free it: on the old Mac, click 'Deactivate…' next to "This Mac" in Settings ▸ License, or remove it on your account page.

To use your license key on another Mac when it already works on three, free one of them the same way. Your account page lists the Macs using your key.

If you rotate your license key

Your account page can give your license key a new string - useful if the key became known to others. The old key stops working at once, so on each of your Macs PanoPaper Pro ends at its next check, within a day. Enter the new key on each Mac with 'Enter License Key…' in Settings ▸ License: every Mac keeps its place among the three. If Macs you do not know use your key, remove them on your account page.

Without internet

The Web Edition checks your license about once a day. Without an internet connection, Pro keeps working for 14 days after the last successful check. After that it pauses: Settings ▸ License says "Not confirmed for … days - connect to the internet", and Pro comes back at the next check once your Mac is online. The trial needs the internet only once, to start.