LicenseKeeper tracks your serial number collection

The crew at Outer Level (developers of the kid-friendly, bug-chomping game Bullfrog) apparently have a problem in common with me, and plenty of other Mac users: too many software license codes and no system for organizing them. Excel and FileMaker, too bulky; flat text files, too plain; leave them in email and let Spotlight sort them out... tempting... but no. Enter LicenseKeeper, a $20 solution to this age-old challenge.

LicenseKeeper 1.0 will let you type or copy in your registration info, sure -- but it's also prepared to keep track of vendor website URLs, support email addresses, and lots of the other bitsies that tend to go missing when you need them. It will import directly from Mail.app and scan for serial numbers in the inbound registration message (a killer feature if you use Mail; I'm waiting for the equivalent Entourage capability). You can even attach files to the serial number records. A downloadable demo will handle up to five license records and three attachments each before asking you to pay up.

There are two other options for this task that I haven't mentioned so far: a general snippet organizer like Yojimbo or KIT, or a free license tracker like Licensed. Either path might work for you if LicenseKeeper isn't to your taste.

Thanks to those who sent this in.

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Source: http://outerlevel.com/licensekeeper

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Xavier

I use Licensed. A little FREE app, nice!

Can be found on: http://amarsagoo.info/licensed/index.shtml

Freeware & Open Source matters!

May 17 2007 at 1:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darleen

And I'm back. Yes, I keep all my registration numbers in a folder so marked in my Mail. What I really like about LicenseKeeper (and why I immediately plunked down $20 for it) is that it pulls that info from the email and also allows you to attach the email AND you can add the icon to the listing.

It's quick, easy and FINALLY all my registration numbers are in ONE place.

I LOVE this little program.

March 11 2007 at 11:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rahul

Why is everyone so negative, here? (Except Darleen). It's a good program and worth $20.

March 09 2007 at 8:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

The Plaid Cow

I keep a folder in Mail called "Macintosh Registrations". Hasn't let me down yet.

March 09 2007 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darleen

Oh please. What a bunch of whiners.

I jumped on this. It is worth $20 to ME at least. We have a TON of games and I have serial numbers scattered all over the place. This is PERFECT and 20 bucks is CHEAP. That's less than I pay for one game. pfft.

It's nice to see people make alternative suggestions. But let's stop complaining about the price. The person(s) who wrote the program deserves to be compensated. Why should anyone work for free. Do YOU?

March 09 2007 at 11:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

john russell

Same as the first guy. Just use secure notes.

March 08 2007 at 7:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Anthony

With xCode and Core Data, in roughly 15 minutes (give or take) you could build an app with 90% of the functionality of this one. Of course, adding the pretty icons and stuff would take a few minutes longer :)

March 08 2007 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

steve

"Serial Box" does this for free...

March 08 2007 at 5:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

A good free and flexible alternative would be Journler.

March 08 2007 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

J.Y.

I use "Pastor" - it does not have the search (yet) or cool icon view, but worth a mention as a donationware alternative for Mac UB encypted data manager.

http://www.mehlau.net/pastor/

March 08 2007 at 3:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply