Our Licensing Promise
Stillwork makes tools for people who make records. We have been on your side of the glass, and we have been burned by licensing that treated us like suspects. This page is our commitment about how our licenses work. It is written plainly on purpose.
Your software will never go silent on you
A Stillwork plugin will never deactivate itself in the middle of a session. Once a plugin is running and licensed on your machine, it stays fully working for that session and every session after. A license problem can never insert silence, bypass your processing, mute a track, or stop a bounce. The worst thing a license issue can ever do is show you a message. Your mix is safe. Your render is safe.
Buy once, use on all your machines
Your license is tied to you, not to a piece of hardware. Install Stillwork plugins on your studio desktop, your laptop, and your travel rig. The same license file unlocks all of them. Change your audio interface, swap a drive, or rebuild your machine, and nothing breaks. There is no activation limit to trip over and no machine to run out of.
Works offline, always
Our plugins do not phone home. They do not need an internet connection to run, to load a session, or to render. Take your rig to a cabin with no signal, or to a stage with locked-down networking, and everything works exactly as it does at home.
You own your installer and your key
When you buy, we send you the actual installer and the actual license file, and we encourage you to keep both. Your ownership does not depend on our website staying up or on your account staying active. You hold what you need to reinstall and reactivate on your own.
If Stillwork ever closes its doors
We have all owned software that died when its maker folded and a license server went dark. That cannot happen to you here, and it does not depend on us doing anything after the fact. No activation server is ever in the loop, so the plugins you have licensed keep working offline for as long as your systems run them, with or without Stillwork around. Your ownership outlives the company because nothing about it was ever routed through us. This is built into how the system is designed, not bolted on afterward.
Sharing
Licenses are for you. Your name and email are carried inside the license and shown in the plugin, so a shared license carries your identity with it. We ask that you keep your license to yourself and the machines you use. We do not use invasive copy protection, and we are trusting our customers to be fair in return.
If something goes wrong
Lost your key, or think it was exposed? Contact us and we will sort out a replacement. We would rather help a real customer quickly than build walls that punish everyone. Honest ownership should be effortless, and keeping it that way is the whole point.