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What this covers
These terms cover this website, the Lamplit trial, and the licence keys we give beta testers. Licences are not on sale yet; when they are, purchase, subscription and refund terms will be published here before the first sale, not after it.
The trial and licence keys
Lamplit runs fully featured for 14 days from the first time you open it, with no card and no account. When the trial ends the app asks for a licence key. Giving us an email address in the app adds one more week, once.
A licence key is issued through Lemon Squeezy. Activating it registers the computer with Lemon Squeezy under a generic device label, and the app checks the key with Lemon Squeezy and with this website about once a day while it can reach the internet. If it cannot, the key keeps working offline for 30 days from the last successful check. A key can be active on a limited number of computers at once; releasing one in the app frees its place.
Beta keys are free and have no trial clock. We may end the beta and stop issuing beta keys at any time.
The beta
Beta software is unfinished by definition. It may crash, it may have defects we have not found, and features may change or be removed between builds. Use it on work that is already delivered, or on copies, until you trust it — the same advice we would give about any new tool that touches your originals.
Beta keys are given out at our discretion, so we can answer everyone properly. Builds may be withdrawn and replaced, as they were in September 2026 while a new build was prepared.
Beta participants are eligible for founding-member pricing when purchasing exists. That is an offer we intend to honour, and it is not a contract until there is something to buy.
Your files
Lamplit reads and writes files on your own computer, including metadata written into your photographs. You are responsible for having backups. Keep a backup. This is not legal throat-clearing: any tool that writes to originals can, in principle, get it wrong, and a Saturday wedding is not the moment to discover that.
You keep every right in your photographs. We claim nothing in them, and we never receive them.
No warranty
The website and the beta software are provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for lost data, lost work, lost income or other consequential losses arising from use of the beta.
Nothing here limits any liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here removes rights you have as a consumer where you live.
Acceptable use
Do not redistribute the builds, decompile them, share a licence key, or work around the trial or the licence check. Lamplit is proprietary software; you get a licence to use it, not ownership of it.
Accuracy of what’s on this site
We work hard to keep the comparison and format pages correct, and every claim about another company’s product carries the date we read it from their own site. Prices and features change without telling us. If you find something out of date here, write to us and we will fix it and re-date the page.
Trademarks
Photo Mechanic is a trademark of Camera Bits, Inc. FastRawViewer, Aftershoot, Narrative and Fovea are the trademarks of their respective owners. Lamplit is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. They are named here for the purpose of honest comparison.