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Archydes Pro
What’s free, what Pro unlocks, and how to buy Pro and unlock it on another Mac.
Archydes is free for opening, checking and extracting. Archydes Pro unlocks the tools for creating and editing. It’s a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
Free and Pro compared
| Free (Archydes Free) | Archydes Pro |
|---|---|
| Open and search archives (names) | Create archives with Smart Compress and Clean Share |
| Quick Look in Archydes and in the Finder | Edit archives, including in an editor |
| Extract, including with a right-click in the Finder | Full-text search in the contents |
| Passwords, multi-part archives, archives in archives | Checking signatures and notarization |
| All warnings of the safety check | Integrity check and Test Archive |
| Convert… to another format |
You can tell what’s part of Pro by the lock 🔒 in the Finder menu and by a note when you use the feature in the app.
Buy Pro
From the App Store: In Archydes, click a Pro feature, or open Archydes › Settings… and choose Unlock Archydes Pro…. The purchase goes through your Apple Account; with Family Sharing, it also covers your family.
From the website: After buying, you receive an email with your license key.
License key (website version)
If you got Archydes from the website, you unlock Pro with the license key from your purchase email. How this works, what Archydes checks once a month and how updates arrive is explained in Website version: license and updates.
On another Mac
- App Store: Archydes › Settings… › Restore Purchases, using the same Apple Account.
- Website: Enter the license key again; see Enter the license key.
Lost your key? Write to support@solit.com.do from the email address you used to buy it.
Later versions
What you buy with Pro stays yours: Pro features are included in all later versions of Archydes, with no need to pay again.