PhraseExpress is Freeware

We give away the PhraseExpress Standard Edition free-of-charge to all personal users (definition):

  • Fully featured
  • No trial expiration
  • No Spyware
  • No Adware

No strings attached!

Why do we do this?

We believe in the quality of our work and the power of word-of-mouth.

However, we depend on your support - PhraseExpress is not just a spare time hobby project and we are not backed up by a multi million dollar company such as Skype, FireFox, etc.

A dedicated team of full-time professional developers has been working hard since 2002 to make PhraseExpress what it is today.

Here is the Deal!

If you are happy with the productivity benefits by PhraseExpress, please recommend PhraseExpress at work. The development is supported solely by professional users.

Convincing your boss should be an easy task! PhraseExpress calculates its own return-on-investment:

Productivity

This is no estimation, assumption or speculation: The usage statistics accurately calculates the savings based on your average typing speed and the length of the inserted text snippets.

Generally, PhraseExpress pays itself off within the first two or three days of use.

What is considered "professional use"?

PhraseExpress is free for non-professional home user only. Any activity where the user receives financial benefit from that task (salary, wages, commission, revenue, etc.) is considered professional use. This includes educational and/or charity organizations if the actual user is being paid for the task.

Unfortunately, we had experienced that too many professional users abused our fair-use policy and just used the free version without supporting our work. We had to find a solution to keep PhraseExpress free for home users while making sure that our business stays profitable.

We decided to let PhraseExpress verify whether it is used in a professional environment. This internal detection mechanism compares your text snippets against a built-in list of words/phrases that are only used in a professional context. You hopefully agree that phrases such as "Your order", "Dear Customer" or "Thank you for purchasing…" may justify assuming professional use. We kindly ask for your understanding that we are not able to publish this phrase list to prevent working around these phrases. PhraseExpress also recognizes if the computer being used is connected to a corporate network.

Important notes:

  • The professional use detection is internal and never collects or transmits personal information over the internet!
  • The professional use detection message dialog is not only shown if professional text contents is pasted. PhraseExpress rather scans the phrase library at program startup and if professional phrases have been found or if a domain controller is detected, the professional use dialog is issued occasionally on a random basis, regardless if the currently pasted phrase has a professional nature or not.
  • The professional use detection is independent from the usage intensity. Personal users can use PhraseExpress without any usage frequency limit.
  • The professional use detection cannot distinguish between full-time or part-time professional. It would be implausible to assume that a user would start/close PhraseExpress whenever the work is switched between personal vs. professional tasks. If you use PhraseExpress in a part-time professional scenario you would need to purchase a license.

The professional use detection works fine for hundred-thousands of happy home users but we are aware that there is the slight chance of a false detection. We are very sorry, if this happened in your individual case. However, as you use PhraseExpress at no cost, we kindly ask for your understanding that we have no resources to investigate false alerts for users who do not support our work.

We have decided to risk the unfortunate and very small chance of "friendly fire" in favor of keeping PhraseExpress free for 99.999% of all happy home users. If you have a better idea to solve the general conflicting issue, we are happy to hear your thoughts.

Please consider to support our work by purchasing an inexpensive PhraseExpress license. If this is out of your imagination, we kindly ask you to respect our license policy and remove PhraseExpress from your computer.

Again, our apologies for the inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.