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Install and activate

Download, open, paste your key. What the licence check does and does not send.

Install

Download Farmero — about 78 MB — and drag it to Applications.

It is signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so macOS opens it normally. If you ever see "Farmero is damaged", the download was truncated; download it again rather than working around Gatekeeper.

Activate

Settings → Account, paste the key, activate.

A licence covers three Macs at once. Deactivate one from the same page to free a seat for another.

What activation sends

Farmero sends four things and nothing else:

  • your licence key
  • an identifier derived from your Mac's hardware UUID
  • the Mac's name, so your list of machines is readable
  • the app version

It does not send your accounts, your content, or anything about what it did. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

When the internet is out

Farmero re-checks the licence every fifteen minutes, but a failed check does not stop anything. The cached licence keeps working for 24 hours offline, deliberately — a wifi blip at 3am should not end four phones mid-post.