Trial and license
Pellet is paid software with a free trial. No account, no card to start.
The trial
Section titled “The trial”14 days, from the first time you open it. Everything works.
After the trial
Section titled “After the trial”Without a license, Pellet stops writing to your vault. It does not stop reading it.
That distinction is the important one. An expired trial can still:
- open every note, task, canvas and drawing
- search the whole vault
- export
You are never locked out of your own files by software you stopped paying for. If Pellet went read-only in a way that hid your notes, it would have made your data hostage, which is the opposite of the point.
Activating
Section titled “Activating”Paste your license key into Settings. It activates for that device.
Licenses move: deactivate one machine and the slot frees up for another. Replacing a laptop doesn’t cost you anything.
Offline
Section titled “Offline”Pellet re-checks a license with the server roughly every 14 days, and keeps working for 30 days with no successful check at all.
The gap is deliberate. An offline-first app that stops working on a long flight, in a hotel with bad wifi, or because a license server had a bad afternoon, is broken. Being offline is never the reason Pellet stops.
If something goes wrong
Section titled “If something goes wrong”If a license check fails in a way you don’t expect, email hello@getpellet.app. The failure mode should never be “your notes are gone” — worst case is a vault you can read and export while it gets sorted out.