The 15-day trial
Fifteen days of Pro (or Home) with no account and no card: what is on, how you are warned, and what happens at the end.
On this page
The default setup starts a 15-day Pro trial on the PC it is installed on. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to type in: every Pro feature is on from the first minute.
The setup you install first decides the trial:
| Setup | Trial |
|---|---|
| Pro Trial (the default) | 15 days of Pro |
| Home Trial | 15 days of Home |
| Free | none: Free from the first day |
What is on during the trial#
A trial has its edition's features.
- Pro trial: unlimited jobs, network shares and NAS, S3-compatible cloud, AES-256 encryption, differential and mirror backups, age-based retention, advanced schedules, running with nobody signed in, pre/post commands, CPU, disk and bandwidth limits, email and webhook alerts, and 100 Genie prompts a month.
- Home trial: the same without cloud, service mode, pre/post commands, limits and webhooks, and with 40 Genie prompts a month.
One thing needs a purchased licence: Genie9 sends it email alerts. During the trial, email alerts go through your own mail server instead. See Email alerts.
Where you see it#
- The account card at the bottom of the rail: Pro trial · 12 days left.
- Account & licences (click the account card): the edition, and Every Pro feature until the end date.
- The icon in the notification area: Trial ends in 3 days in its tooltip, for the last three days.
How you are warned#
| When | What you see |
|---|---|
| 6 days left | a quiet line on Home: Pro trial · 6 days left |
| 3 days left | an amber banner on Home, with See editions, and the tray tooltip Trial ends in 3 days |
| 2 days left | one notification in the app window: Your Pro trial ends in 2 days |
| The last day | Your trial ends today. Backups will pause tonight unless you choose an edition. |
| At the end | the decision screen |
If you are signed in on the PC, Genie9 also emails your account address when 3 days are left and on the day the trial ends. A PC that is never signed in gets no emails.
What happens at the end#
Backups pause until you choose how to carry on. Two rules make that safe:
- Nothing is deleted. Every job, setting and backup stays as it is.
- Restore keeps working. You can restore any file from any backup, in any edition, for ever. The decision screen has Restore files on it.
The screen offers three ways on:
- Buy Home ($39) or Buy Pro ($79): the Genie9 store opens in your browser, and every job resumes the moment the licence activates.
- Continue on Free: pick up to two jobs to keep running. The others keep their settings and wait, one click from resuming after an upgrade.
- Already bought GBM AI? Enter a licence key: type the key you have.
The details are in When the trial ends.
Buy before it ends and nothing changes#
A Home or Pro licence activated during the trial replaces it. Jobs keep running and nothing pauses. See Buying and activating a licence.
Note
The trial is one per PC, and the first setup installed decides it. Installing again, or installing another setup over it, does not start a new trial. A PC that started on Free stays on Free until you buy.