Clear by design
Pay for the official release without losing free-software rights
SmartCut64 is GPL-3.0-or-later. A purchase supports the seller's signed build, clean-export entitlement, updates and support.
Evaluation mode
You can open, inspect, edit and preview media before purchase. Video exports carry a permanent SMARTCUT64 EVALUATION watermark and use a full video re-encode so the watermark is genuinely present. Clean remux, packet-copy and smart-render delivery require a paid entitlement.
No payment card, email address or licence key is needed. The evaluation page provides the same signed SmartCut64 1.0.3 installer supplied to customers and an entirely optional feedback-contact form. Evaluation mode has no time limit; if you buy later, activate the same installation from Help > Licence & Activation.
Other official release files: portable package, corresponding source and SHA-256 checksums.
Personal offer
- One-time founding price of £4.99 for the first 250 customers
- Two concurrent computer activations
- Official code-signed Windows installer and portable package
- 12 months of updates and email support
- Installed eligible version remains usable after the support period
The secure Lemon Squeezy checkout applies the founding discount automatically while the first 250 allocations remain available. The standard one-time price is £19.99.
Activation and privacy
The desktop sends the purchase email, Lemon Squeezy licence key and a one-way Installation ID over HTTPS to the configured SmartCut64 activation service. The raw Windows MachineGuid is not transmitted. The local purchase credentials are protected for the current Windows user with DPAPI.
Two computers can be active concurrently. A computer can be deactivated from Help > Licence & Activation and replaced. Successful activation installs a signed, machine-bound perpetual entitlement that the desktop verifies locally. Clean export on that installation does not require periodic online revalidation; the service is needed only for a new activation, deactivation, transfer or support-assisted reset.
Your source-code rights
Every official binary release ships with the exact corresponding source, build scripts, licence notices, third-party sources required by the distribution model, SBOM and checksums. Nothing in the paid entitlement removes GPL/LGPL rights to inspect, modify, rebuild, replace dynamically linked LGPL libraries or redistribute covered software.
A modified build is not entitled to use the seller's trademark, signing identities, private activation key or represent itself as an official supported build.