Free and Pro, and your licence key

Last updated: November 7, 2026

What the free edition does, what Pro adds, and how your licence key works.

The free edition costs nothing and can be used for personal or commercial work. It includes:

• one account, with browsing, uploads, downloads, renames, deletes and share links;
• previewing a sync (running one needs Pro);
• the command line, and read-only access for AI agents.

Pro ($29.99, one time) adds more than one account, with copy, move and sync between accounts; running folder syncs; and write tools for AI agents. Details are in the terms and the refund policy.

Add your licence key

1. Open Settings, then Licence.
2. Paste your key. It starts with BWX1- and is about 160 characters. Capital letters, spaces and line breaks don't matter.
3. Choose Add licence.

You can also press Enter licence key on the Pro prompt that appears when you try a Pro feature. When you add a key there, you go straight back to what you were doing. From the command line use bucketworx-cli licence add KEY. The app, the command line and the agent server all use the same key.

• The Licence page says where you stand ("BucketWorx Pro, licensed to …", or "Free edition"), shows the licence number, and has Remove licence.
• Keys are checked on your computer. BucketWorx never contacts a server to check one, so it works offline.
• If a key can't be used, the page says why in plain words: not valid, expired, for a later version, or turned off (refunded or shared). BucketWorx then runs as the free edition.
• A key covers every 1.x release and the 0.x releases before it.
• The key is a file named licence.key in your settings folder. Copying that folder to another computer takes the key with it.