Licensing & Activation
Licensing & Activation
How licensing works across the whole ZeroTrace line. Buy once, own the device, unlock the software with a one-time activation, no account and no subscription.
This section explains how licensing works across the entire ZeroTrace line, hardware devices, firmware, and the desktop software tools, in one place. Each product also documents its own activation steps on its own page; this is the shared model they all follow.
The promise
You buy a ZeroTrace product once and it is yours. Licensing does not rent you the hardware or the software, and it does not expire on a billing cycle. What a license does is unlock the full feature set of the software and firmware you already own.
Activation is a one-time step. There are no subscriptions on core hardware or firmware, and updates stay free for the life of the product. A license unlocks capabilities; it does not hold your device or your data hostage.
What licensing covers
- Hardware devices (HID, AirLeak, AirLeak Pro, Echo, USBLogger) power on and do the basics without a license. A license unlocks the advanced capture, decode, and operations features. You activate them through the mobile app.
- Desktop software (the OSINT and Proxy suites) is licensed software. You activate it once inside the app, and it stays activated on that machine.
- ZeroTrace Desktop is the exception: it currently has no licensing gate and opens ready to use, no key required.
The shape of it
Everything about ZeroTrace licensing follows from one design choice: the check runs locally, on your own device or computer, not against an account you have to stay signed in to. That is what makes the rest true, no subscription, offline operation, and nothing about your usage sent back to us.
The pages that follow cover the model in detail:
- How licensing works, the concept behind a license, and the two access levels.
- Activation per product, the exact step for each kind of product.
- Offline and local storage, where your license lives and how it behaves without a connection.
- Transfers, moving to a new phone or computer.
- FAQ, the common questions in one place.