Plan, licence & devices

Your plan, licence key and device slots.

What it's for

Umbra is paid, and licensed per machine — nothing in the app renders until an active, device-bound licence is entered. This pane is where you see your plan and seat, activate or move machines, change your key, and read what happens to your Accounts if a payment ever lapses. The short version of that last part: they are never held hostage.

Come here to activate a new computer, free a seat for another machine, or check how long a trial has left.

Activate this computer

Enter your licence key

Paste the key from your confirmation email on the activation screen. It binds this machine to the licence — one licence, one device on a solo plan, shown as 1 of 1 seats.

Or try it first

Start a free trial with just an email: one day, no card needed, one trial per computer. A trial is working software, not a warning state, and carries its own countdown.

Work offline between checks

Once activated, Umbra keeps working for 7 days between licence checks, so a flaky connection on drop day is not a lockout.
The Plan & licence pane showing an active licence, the masked key, the bound device, and the deactivate controls.
Plan, key and device, with the controls that move a licence between machines.shot-settings · Plan & licence pane: Active status with plan name and 'up to N accounts, 1 device'; Licence key row (masked); Device row reading '1 of 1 seats in use'; Deactivate control

Read your status at a glance

The pane prints a plain word, never the raw state.

Active
The licence is working on this machine.
Free trial
A trial, with the days remaining shown beside it.
Payment needs attention
A card was declined once and we are still retrying. Umbra keeps working — a warning, not a lockout.
Offline
We could not reach the licensing service. Your subscription is not the problem, as far as we know.
Not activated on this computer
The key is fine; this machine is not on it — usually a settings folder copied from another computer. Enter the key again to add this machine.
Key not recognised
The licensing service has no licence with the key on this computer — usually a test key, or one entered wrong. Every Account here stays, in limited mode. Press Enter a licence key and use the key from your dashboard or confirmation email.
Removed from the team
This computer was activated with a team member key, and that member has been removed. Sync stops and every Account here stays, in limited mode. Activate with a key of your own, or ask the owner for a new invite.
Expired / Cancelled
The subscription has ended. Renew or resubscribe in your dashboard to reactivate this device.

Move a licence to another machine

A solo licence carries one device — the Licence card says so plainly ("One machine at a time") and shows the plan, the masked key, the renewal date and this machine. To move it, press Move to another machine — that deactivates this computer, frees the seat, and returns you to the activation screen, where the same or a new key goes in. Check again re-checks the licence with the server on the spot. Managing billing, plans and the device list all happen on umbrabrowser.com, behind Billing portal.

A device is the computer, not the installation: every Umbra install on one machine — another user account, a VM cloned from the same image — is the same device, and only one of them can be activated. Another install either can't activate, or keeps working locally with the Licence card saying This installation can't sync — sync and team features are refused there. To switch which install is the activated one, unlink the computer under Devices on the dashboard and activate again in the one you want.

If a payment lapses, your Accounts stay

This is the promise worth reading before you buy. A lapse, a cancellation, or an unreachable licensing service does not take your Accounts offline.

Still works in limited mode
Open every Account you already have, sign in and check out as normal, export Accounts / cookies / logins, export your purchase ledger, and keep using the connections you set up.
What it stops
Adding a new Account, and importing Accounts from a file or another tool.