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One price. Every seat.

30 days free, then $29 per seat per year, billed annually. All updates while you're subscribed, and add or remove seats anytime.

Pricing

$29 per seat, per year.

Start with a 30-day free trial — your card isn't charged until it ends, and Stripe emails you a week before. Then it's an annual subscription, billed yearly, with all updates while you're subscribed. Buy one seat for yourself, or several at once for your team — you become the Manager and assign each seat to a person. Add or remove seats anytime.

Annual subscription

seats · billed yearly

Team
$ / year · $29 ×

Seats

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Need more than 50 seats? Email us.

  • 30-day free trial, nothing charged until it ends
  • $29 per seat, billed annually
  • All updates while subscribed
  • Assign every seat to a person from the Manager dashboard
  • Add or remove seats anytime
  • Email support, one business day

How seats work

Each seat activates Refractions on up to two Macs, for one human. Whoever buys becomes the Manager for the subscription: they assign every seat to a person by name and email — including, if they want, one to themselves. Each person gets their key by email and manages their own activations from the desktop app. The Manager never sees individual keys.

Common scenarios

  • Solo researcher: buy 1 seat — assign it to yourself.
  • Small team (lead + 4): buy 5 seats — assign one to yourself, four to your team.
  • Core facility: buy 10+ seats, reassign as people leave.

Seats are reassignable — if a teammate leaves, revoke their seat and assign it to someone else. The buyer's own access can't be removed by a co-manager (a safety invariant against lockout).

FAQ

Questions, briefly answered.

Yes — Refractions runs on macOS 14 or later, and that's the whole point. Editing an embedded Prism chart by double-clicking only ever worked on Windows; on a Mac it never has. Refractions brings that edit-in-place flow to the Mac, so you don't need a PC — or a colleague who has one — to fix a single chart. On Windows, you don't need Refractions at all.
Yes — in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, including SharePoint team sites and files shared through Teams. Refractions copies the document to your Mac, you edit its charts, and Put back returns it as a new version of the original, after checking nobody changed it in the meantime. For work and school accounts, a Microsoft 365 admin approves Refractions once for your organization before Put back works — send them these steps.
Prism 9 and later (modern .pzfx format). Prism 8 support is best-effort.
No. The document stays a real OLE-embedded Prism file. Windows users double-click as normal.
Open the Refractions desktop app on either Mac, go to Manage activations, and deactivate the old machine — then activate the new one. No support ticket needed.
Every seat is $29 per year — no volume discount, no tier markup. Buy one for yourself, or ten at once if you're buying for a group. Each seat activates up to two Macs for one human. Whoever buys becomes the Manager and assigns every seat to a person by name and email — including, if they want, one to themselves. You can add or remove seats anytime from the billing portal.
Not to us. All chart processing happens locally on your Mac, and the only call to refractions.app is license validation. When you put a OneDrive or SharePoint document back, the file goes directly between your Mac and Microsoft 365 — it never passes through our servers.