Everything included.

• 30-day refund on a lifetime licence
• Signed by us and notarised by Apple
• Checkout, receipts and tax by Creem, our merchant of record
• Your projects stay on your Mac, with no account

Every paid tier has no media-minute limit. The free trial is the whole application for 14 days with no watermark, and it needs no card and no account: it starts when you first open Rooster and ends read-only, with every project still opening. There is no free tier. Prices are in US dollars and include any VAT or sales tax.

Rooster is sold here, as a direct download. A Mac App Store build is planned to follow, carrying the monthly and annual subscriptions; the lifetime licence is sold here and only here.

What the lifetime licence includes

Rooster itself, permanently, and every update. The licence does not expire and there is nothing to renew: the version you own keeps opening your projects and exporting your work for as long as you have a Mac to run it on, and every new version we release is yours at no extra cost.

At $249, it costs about two and a quarter years of the annual price, paid once. If it turns out not to be for you, it is refunded in full within 30 days of purchase: write to support@rooster.cam.

What unmetered means

No media-minute limits. No top-ups. No overage maths. Your Rooster bill won’t grow with your workload.

• No media minutes. Record and import as much as you like. There is no monthly pool of hours that retakes, alternate angles and footage you end up cutting all draw down.
• No Rooster usage charges. Use local transcription, Studio Voice, Eye Contact and Green Screen as often as you need.
• No top-ups and no overage maths. Rooster will not stop you in the middle of a project and ask you to buy more usage.

Optional cloud services use your own account and are billed separately.

That is why unmetered is a structural claim rather than a promotion. It is not generosity that could be repriced next September: it is what follows from not running servers on your behalf. The how it works page sets out what runs where, including the short list of things that genuinely use the network.

How this compares

Descript is the tool most people arrive here from, so it is the useful comparison. Its figures below are the ones our pricing post checked against Descript’s published pages on 14 August 2026; the annual column is the per-month cost when billed for a year up front.

Descript figures checked 14 August 2026 and dated as such; what each meter counts, and what happens when one runs out, is broken down in our Descript pricing post. Descript can change its pricing at any time. Rooster’s figures are the prices on this page.

What stays yours

Your projects stay on your Mac, and there is no account standing between you and your own work. A lapsed subscriber always keeps their projects and their exported media: both stay on their Mac rather than in a database we hold. Exports are ordinary files, saved to your Downloads folder by default and never silently written over something already there, and your original recordings are never rewritten.

When the free trial ends without a licence, or a subscription lapses, Rooster opens read-only: every project still opens and plays and every file you already exported is untouched, but editing, recording and export wait until a licence is current again, and nothing is deleted in the meantime. A lifetime licence never lapses, so none of this applies to it.

Cancelling, receipts and your licence key

Cancel a subscription at any time at Creem’s customer portal - sign in with the email address you bought with and Creem sends you a link - or from the link in your receipt. Your licence key is in the receipt email from Creem; keep it. Enter it in Rooster, in Settings > Licence, and the Mac is licensed: a trial becomes your licence with nothing else to do. Lost the receipt? Find a lost key explains how to get it back, and the support page answers refunds, lifetime updates and lost keys in one place.