Licences

Buy the desktop licence

Choose Buy Stab…Buy Stab… (not on Web) (the Stab menu (hidden once licensed)Settings or Settings › Licence—), or Buy Stab on the Own Stab card on the paywall, which shows the price in your currency. Paddle’s checkout opens in your browser; Paddle is our reseller, takes the payment and shows the price with your country’s tax. You can also buy from stab.audio, or from the Own Stab card on app.stab.audio/subscribe.

Once it’s bought, Stab says “Stab is yours on this MacPC”.

Your licence key comes by email, as STAB-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. Keep that email: the key is what you enter on each computer.

Open the licence from its email

The email with your key has an Open in Stab button above the key. On a computer with Stab installed:

1. Open the email’s Open in Stab. Stab opens, or comes to the front, and asks Activate Stab for Desktop: who the licence is for (your email, partly hidden) and which of your two computers this one becomes.
2. Choose Activate. Nothing is activated before you do; Not Now leaves Stab as it was.

If the licence is already on this computer, Stab says “Stab Is Already Activated” and there is nothing to do. If it’s on two computers already, Stab lists them so you can free one, as in Move the licence to another computer below. If the button doesn’t open Stab, enter the key as below.

Enter your licence key

1. Choose Enter Licence Key…Enter Licence Key… (not on Web) (the Stab menu (Licence… once licensed)Settings or Settings › Licence—), or open Settings › Purchases, or Enter Licence Key… on the paywall.
2. If the key is on your clipboard, Stab offers Paste the key from your clipboard?; otherwise type or paste it, and choose Activate.Type or paste the key from your email, and confirm. Case, spaces and dashes don’t matter.

Stab checks the key with its server once, and keeps a signed licence file on the computer. From then on the licence is checked on the computer itself, offline. Stab looks again about once a day when it’s online, so a licence deactivated elsewhere or refunded is noticed; without a network, the licence simply stands.

If you’re signed in to Stab Cloud when you enter the key, the licence is linked to your account, so your account’s page lists it.

Move the licence to another computer

One licence works on two computers at once, Mac or Windows in any mix. To use it on a third, free one of the two:

• From the computer you’re leaving: Deactivate on This Mac… on the licence’s card (Settings › Purchases)Deactivate This Computer in Settings › Purchases. Stab asks first. That computer goes back to free Stab; your songs on it stay as they are.
• From the new computer: enter the key. If it’s already on two computers, Stab says “This licence is already active on two computers” and lists them by name, each with a button to deactivate it; choose one, and the key activates here. The computer you freed is told the next time it’s online, and says so.

Entering the key again on a computer that already has it doesn’t take a second place.

A licence can be deactivated five times in 30 days, from the computers or from your account. Past that, Stab says “This licence has been moved between computers too often” (see A licence isn’t accepted) and the next is possible 30 days after the first of those five. Need it sooner (a new computer, a repair)? Write to [email protected] from the email you bought with, and we reset it.

Lost your key?

Write to [email protected] from the email you bought with. We send a new key; the old one stops working, and computers already activated stay activated.

The web editor has no purchase of its own: it opens your Stab Cloud songs with your account, within its plan. Owning Stab is for the apps on Mac and Windows: app.stab.audio/subscribe shows Own Stab beside Stab Cloud, with the desktop licence through Paddle. Stab Cloud works on the web and in every app.