📢 Official: ImageGlass 10 Release Plans, Pricing, Features, and Privacy

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This is the official announcement following the Poll: ImageGlass 10 Release Plans.

Plans and Pricing

Plan	Price	Covers	Updates
Classic	Free	Unlimited users	Every version
Pro Individual	$9.99 one-time	1 user or device	All ImageGlass 10.x releases
Pro Team	$49 one-time	Up to 3 users or devices, commercial use included	All ImageGlass 10.x releases
Pro Business	From $99 per seat a year, or $9.99 a month, with volume pricing	Seat based, with priority support	Any newer version while the subscription is active

Pro Business costs less per seat as a team grows. The volume pricing is graduated, so each rate applies to the seats inside its own band rather than to the whole team:

Seats	Per seat a year	Per seat a month
1–49	$99	$9.99
50–99	$69	$6.99
100–499	$39	$3.99
500+	$19	$1.99

Two extras worth knowing:

• Microsoft Store: Pro Individual is sold in the Store as well, which sets its own price for your market. Pro unlocks the moment it installs, with no license file to import, the app updates itself, and Pro stays unlocked on every future version on Windows, major releases included.
• Pro Commercial Source License: organizations that need permissive MIT source rights for an agreed ImageGlass 10.x version can request a quote from me.

Tip

Already donated? Pro Individual is on me.

If you donated $10 or more on or after March 15, 2026, the day ImageGlass 10 Beta 1 shipped, reach out to me with your donation reference and a Pro Individual license will be issued to you free of charge.

Trust-Based Licensing

Pro licensing runs on trust rather than enforcement. There is only one official build to download: importing a small license file switches it from Classic to Pro, and the app verifies that file on your own machine.

• No account, no sign-in, and no activation server. Pro works with no network connection at all.
• No device lock. Move the license file between your own computers, within your plan's seat count.
• No DRM and no phoning home. Everything needed to verify Pro sits inside the file.

Please keep your license file private and stay within your seat count. That trust is what makes the model work, and it is why there is no activation to fight with.

Feature Comparison

Everything in Classic is in Pro too: the 90+ formats, color management, basic HDR viewing, the built-in tools, themes, hotkeys, plugins, and command-line control.

Feature	Classic	Pro	Pro Store
HDR Tone Mapper tool	–	✅	✅
Free and margin panning	–	✅	✅
File Watcher	–	✅	✅
Custom mouse clicks	–	✅	✅
Settings lock for managed rollouts	–	✅	✅
Features lock for shared devices	–	✅	✅
Custom Windows file type icons	✅	✅	– *

* Pro Store above means ImageGlass Pro bought from the Microsoft Store. It matches the website build feature for feature, apart from custom Windows file type icons, which a packaged install cannot register.

Distribution

ImageGlass 10 ships in these package formats:

Platform	Packages
Windows	MSIX and ZIP
macOS	DMG
Linux	Flatpak and Tar.gz

Privacy Policy

Paid features brought no new data collection. The privacy policy in force today still applies, and an expanded version that spells all of this out publishes together with ImageGlass 10:

• Your images, file names, and folder paths never leave your computer. There is no account, no advertising identifier, and no profile of you.
• The only outbound request is the weekly update check, and its entire message is the User-Agent line that Settings > General prints back to you. No identifier is included, so two checks from one computer cannot be linked.
• Pro adds nothing to that request. The license file is verified locally, and the check differs only by the word pro in place of classic. Your license ID, plan, seat count, and expiry date are never sent.
• On the Store build, Pro unlocks from a local package check that works with no network connection at all.
• Turning off "Check for update automatically" stops the anonymous statistics completely. To keep update notifications while sending nothing countable, set the DO_NOT_TRACK environment variable to 1.

Buying Pro is the one place personal data appears: Stripe processes the payment, and an order record holds your email address, plan, and payment references so that a receipt, a license, and support can be provided.

ImageGlass 9 Roadmap

The plan from the roadmap update stands, with no surprises:

1. Maintenance mode now: bug fixes and stability updates only, no new features.
2. Six more months of critical hotfixes once ImageGlass 10 reaches general availability, so there is time to evaluate and migrate without pressure.
3. End of life after that window, with no further public updates for ImageGlass 9.
4. Paid extended support remains available for organizations that need critical fixes beyond the public end of life.

Moving up costs nothing if you stay on the free edition: ImageGlass 10 Classic is a free upgrade from ImageGlass 9.

Thank You

Choosing Pro funds the work that keeps Classic free, open, and free of ads and tracking. Staying on Classic is just as welcome, and nothing about that changes. Buying a plan opens on this website when ImageGlass 10 rolls out. Until then, questions about a plan, licensing, or migrating from ImageGlass 9 are welcome.

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[Tumeez]

I just bought ImageGlass from Microsoft Store today. I just however came little bit confused. Does this purchase give me a future update to any major versions? If no, is there a way to refund this purchase and bought newer license when it comes to sale? Or either change it to newer format?

Kindly asking,

Tumeez

[d2phap]

Does this purchase give me a future update to any major versions?

Yes, the MS Store release will get Pro Individual with free major updates (not only v10.x).

And you will be able to export the license file from the MS Store release to use for non-store releases (such as other install on Windows, macOS, Linux) but the license file only covers free updates for v10.x.

This makes MS Store release look better, to keep it fair to other Pro options, I will increase the price of Store release when v10 is rolled out.

is there a way to refund this purchase and bought newer license when it comes to sale

If you directly buy from MS Store and change your mind, I cannot refund it because MS Store does not have a function to refund a purchase to customer.

Thanks for your support!