Pricing
One price. Every seat.
$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.
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
- $29 per seat, billed annually
- All updates while subscribed
- Assign every seat to a person from the Manager dashboard
- Add or remove seats anytime
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Community support via https://discourse.refractions.app/
How seats work
Each seat activates Refractions on one Mac, 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.
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Prism 9 and later (modern
.pzfxformat). 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 one Mac 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.
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No. All processing happens locally on your Mac. The only network calls are license validation against
refractions.app.