Licensing & updates
Community, Professional, activation, and signed updates.
Licensing & updates
Private, non-commercial use
Manual projects, profiles, reads/writes, views, tags, imports, Trends, recording, Replay, discovery, diagnostics, the same updates, and the same support.
Commercial work on one device
Commercial-use rights plus structured/Lua automation, CLI and CI, MCP, report comparison, and local project Git.
Seven-day trial
On the first run you can continue with Community or start the Professional trial. Declining it does not throw it away: start it later from Application Preferences → License & activation. The trial lasts seven days on that installation, enables Professional workflows for evaluation, and does not restart after it expires.
Permanent device activation
Professional costs $149 as a one-time purchase. One purchased license is assigned to one device. The installed certificate is verified locally and has no heartbeat or expiry. There is no self-service release; support handles legitimate hardware replacement. License state is device-local and never enters a project.
| Flow | Operator steps | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Online | License & activation → show device code → sign in to My Busloom → choose an unused license → approve | The app polls with a short-lived challenge token and installs the signed certificate |
| Offline | Export .busloom-license-request → upload in My Busloom elsewhere → download .busloom-license → import on target | The same license becomes permanently assigned without connecting the target |
| CLI | busloom license request / install / inspect | Suitable for machines without a desktop environment |
Software updates
Application Preferences → Software updates checks the public stable manifest. Checking after launch is enabled by default and can be disabled there. The check never installs an update: download, installation, and restart remain explicit. The platform artifact is verified with a dedicated embedded update-signing public key. Community and Professional receive the same versions.