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 checks the key once and stores it encrypted with Windows DPAPI, which ties it to your Windows user account on this machine.

What gets sent#

Activation is the only network call Pip ever makes. It sends two things: your licence key, and a salted, truncated hash of the device. Not your machine name, not your projects, not your ports — a one-way fingerprint just distinctive enough to tell one seat from another.

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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