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Pay once, or yearly. Your library is never locked.

Opening, watching and exporting your library is free, always. The Mac app is a one-time purchase, with a yearly option if you prefer.

Klenod is in preview, and nothing is for sale yet. These are the prices we plan to launch with. People on the waitlist get the first licences for $39.

Free

$0 always

For opening and keeping what is already in a library, forever.

  • Open, browse and play any Klenod library
  • Export everything, any time
  • Second copy and integrity checks
  • Recovery key, recovery sheet and passphrase changes
  • Lock shortcut and screenshot blocking
See what it does

Klenod for Mac, yearly

$24 a year

The same app, with every update while you subscribe. About $2 a month, billed yearly.

  • Everything in the one-time licence
  • All updates included
  • If you stop, your library still opens in Free. To keep the full app for good, buy the one-time licence instead
Join the waitlist

Both paid plans start with a 30-day trial of everything. Prices are in US dollars, and the euro prices are the same numbers.

What is always free, and what the licence adds

Always freeWith a licence
Open any library and browse itUploading and adding files
Play videos and view photosSaving from MEGA, Proton Drive, WeTransfer and other links
Export everything, or restore from the command lineMoving, renaming and tagging
Keep a second copy and check itSearch by words in pictures, faces and similar pictures
Recovery key, recovery sheet and changing your passphraseEncrypted share links, file requests and contacts
Lock shortcut and screenshot blockingExtracting archives and making playable copies of videos

Later

None of these are built yet. We'll price them once they exist.

Klenod Share
Encrypted links for one person at a time, and family albums. Your library stays on your own storage. Only what you share is copied to us, encrypted, and it expires. It will cost a little each month or year, because it runs on our servers.
Klenod for iPhone
A viewer for your library first, then adding photos from the phone.
Klenod Pro
Case libraries for journalists and investigators, with file hashes and a record of what came in when.
Hosted storage
For people who would rather not set up their own. Priced by what you store, and never sold as "lifetime".

Questions

What happens if I stop paying, or never pay?

Your library stays yours. The app keeps opening it in Free, so you can still browse, watch, export everything and keep your second copy. Only adding and organising files need a licence. The command-line tool opens every library too, for free.

Why not a small monthly price?

Klenod runs on your Mac and your own storage, so keeping it working costs us nothing each month. That's why it's a one-time purchase. If you'd rather pay as you go, there's the yearly plan. We don't bill monthly because card and processing fees would take about a fifth of each payment.

Do I need an account?

No. You get a licence file, and the app checks it on your Mac without contacting us.

Is there a trial?

Yes. You get 30 days with everything, and no card is needed. After that the app drops to Free instead of locking you out.

The code is open. Can I build it myself?

Yes. You can read all of the code and build it for your own use. The library format and the code that stores and restores a library, including the open-source build of the klenod command-line tool, are open source under MPL-2.0. The rest, the Mac app included, is under the Business Source License 1.1 from the company behind Klenod. Each version of it becomes open source under Apache 2.0 two years after its release. Until then you may not ship it, or a build of it, as a product that competes with Klenod, paid or free. Buying a licence pays for the signed Mac app, its updates and support, and keeps the project going.

What about tax?

VAT or sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.

Get the first licences

One email when the Mac app is ready, with the $39 price.

One email when the Mac app is ready. No tracking. How we handle it.