License Activation

This document describes how to activate Postico licenses. If you are looking for the license terms, please click here.

Activating Postico Licenses

You can use Postico 2 without a license for evaluation puproses. For any other purpose, you must purchase a license and activate it.

Postico 2 licenses are delivered as a short license key of the format XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.

To activate your Postico 2 license:

Download Postico 2 from this website
Open Postico 2
Select "Preferences" from the "Postico" menu
Click the "License" button in the toolbar of the preferences window
Type your license key into the text field
Click Activate

If you have a single user license, Postico should now be activated. For multi-user licenses, a dialog window will appear asking you to provide a device name (on Postico 2.1 and newer). The default is your computer name (eg. "Jakobs Macbook Pro"). You can pick any name you like. It appears in the online license manager so IT administrators can see to see who is using Postico licenses.

If these instructions fail, see Errors related to License Activation

Activating Postico on Macs with multiple user accounts

If you have multiple user accounts on your Mac, you need to activate Postico separately on each account.

Multiple activations on a single Mac only count as one device with regard to the license limit.

You can place a text file with the license key on the path /Library/Application Support/Postico/license-key.txt to make Postico automatically activate itself for all users (see Automatic License Activation).

If you deactivate Postico on one of the accounts, it will automatically be deactivated on all accounts on the same Mac.

Deactivating Postico Licenses

If you want to move your Postico 2 license to another Mac, you need to deactivate it on the old Mac first.

Open Postico 2 on the old Mac
Select "Preferences" from the "Postico" menu
Click the "License" button in the toolbar of the preferences window
Click the "Deactivate" button
You can now activate Postico on the new Mac

If you have already wiped your device

If you want to deactivate Postico on a device that you have already wiped, and you still have access to the device, you can use the following procedure:

Reinstall Postico 2 on the old Mac
Activate Postico 2 with the same license key again. It will not count as an extra device because the license server stores a hash of the machine UUID.
Deactivate Postico
Now the license is available for other devices again

If you no longer have access to the device you want to deactivate

If you no longer have access to the old Mac, you can use the Postico 2 license manager instead:

Go to the license manager
Enter your license key and click "Login"
Search for the device you want to deactivate (for privacy reasons, we store only the device model and the first activation date for each activated device)
Click the "Deactivate" button
You can now activate Postico on the new Mac

Automatic License Activation

If you want to activate Postico automatically using MDM, please have a look at Automatic License Activation

Preorder Licenses

If you have preordered Postico 2, you have probably received a license file. You can activate your preorder license by double clicking the license file, or by dragging it on the Postico 2 icon.

Alternatively, you can use your order number (should start with "EGG") instead of the license key.

Postico 1.x licenses

Postico 2 is a paid upgrade. If you have purchased Postico 1.x, and want to use Postico 2, you need to purchase an upgrade. See the pricing page for details.

However, Postico 2 development builds can be activated with Postico 1.x licenses. You can download development builds from the changelog.

Mac App Store

If you have purchased Postico from the Mac App Store, you do not need to activate it. The license is verified automatically when you first launch it after downloading it from the Mac App Store.