Keylight — Licensing for apps

How offline license activation actually works
If you ship a desktop app outside an app store, you eventually hit the same wall: how do you check a license when the user is on a plane, behind a corporate firewall, or just offline? Calling your ser
Jun 27, 20264 min read4
How to ship and sell a paid desktop app outside the app stores (2026)
You built a desktop app — macOS, Windows, Linux, native or Tauri/Electron — and you want to sell it directly instead of handing 15–30% to Apple or Microsoft. Selling outside the stores means you keep
Jun 27, 20266 min read
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Keylight — Licensing for apps
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Practical guides on adding license keys, device activations, offline verification, and payments to apps — macOS, Windows, Linux, Tauri, and Electron — without building a backend.