Pay once, keep it forever.

Two ways to buy, both one payment. A year of updates is $9 for one Mac. Lifetime, with every update for life, is $39 for one Mac at the regular price. The launch price started at $5 for the first 1,000 licenses and rises in steps as they sell, up to the regular $39. The pricing card shows the price today, how many are left at it, and what it goes to next. The count comes from our licensing server, so it is the real number. Vitals with Flit, our dictation app, is $59 for both.

With Lifetime, no: every update is included for life, with no paid upgrades and nothing to renew. With a year of updates, you get every version released in the next twelve months, and the app keeps working after that for as long as you like. Only a version released after your year needs a renewal, and renewing is your choice.

Nothing, unless you want a newer version. The license never expires: the version you have keeps working, and the app stops offering versions released after your year. If you install one by hand, it tells you the year has ended and points you back to the last version your license includes. Renew whenever you want to move on.

Flit is our other Mac app: dictation that never leaves your Mac. Speak, and the words appear wherever you type. Flit Lifetime comes with a Vitals license, and buying it here gets you both keys and both download links in one email, at Flit's own price of the day. Flit Lifetime covers 2 Macs and the Vitals license one.

The roadmap at vitalsmac.com/roadmap lists it in order: Ask Vitals, questions in plain words answered on your Mac; a storage map of what takes your disk space; safe cleanup of caches and old build files; disk activity for each connected drive; and desktop widgets. It also says what comes later and what was asked for and won’t be built. There are no dates. A lifetime license includes all of it, and a year of updates includes what ships during the year.

As many as you pay for. One license covers one Mac. For more, pick a pack of 2, 5, 10 or 25 Macs on the pricing card. You get one license key that works on that many Macs, and each Mac costs less as the pack gets bigger: $25 for 2, down to about $8 a Mac in the pack of 25. Move a license to a new Mac whenever you like, with no account and no email to support.

Buy Vitals, post about it on X, Threads, Reels, TikTok or Shorts, and email us the link. At 5,000 views we refund half of what you paid, and at 20,000 views we refund all of it. On X and Threads it takes 10,000 and 50,000 views. You keep your license. The cash back page has the rules.

Yes, half price, for students, teachers and school staff. Email [email protected] from your school email address and we reply with a one-use code for one Mac. The details are at vitalsmac.com/education.

No, but there is a 14-day refund. If Vitals is not for you, email us and we refund the payment.

The download link is on the page you land on after checkout. Your license key arrives by email within a minute. If you lose either, enter your key on the download page to get the link again.

The App Store sandbox stops an app from reading other apps' processes, which is the one thing an activity monitor has to do. Vitals is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.