Activating your Specter Pro license
Specter Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, and unlocking it is a single step: you paste the license key you received when you bought it. This guide covers where that goes, how to use your license across more than one Mac, and what happens when you are offline — the small handful of things people ask after buying.
Free tier versus Pro
Out of the box, Specter runs on a free tier that lets you sync up to five files per month, with every feature available. A “sync” here is one file moving in one direction — pushing one local post up to Ghost, or pulling one post down, each counts as one. The counter resets at the start of each calendar month. That is plenty to try the full workflow on a few posts, but the moment you want to run a real bulk pass across your archive, you will want Pro, which removes the limit entirely. (For more on what counts and when it resets, the help answers go into detail.)
Entering your key
When you buy Specter Pro you receive a license key. To activate, open Specter’s settings and find the License section, paste your key, and confirm. Specter checks the key against the store, and once it validates, the monthly limit lifts and the app is unlocked for good — there is nothing to renew. Your existing sync count and folder setup carry straight over; activating does not reset or move anything.
If you prefer the command line, the bundled ghost-sync CLI exposes the same thing: ghost-sync license activate <key> to unlock, ghost-sync license status to see your current tier and details, and ghost-sync license deactivate to release the machine.
Using your license on more than one Mac
A Specter Pro license can be activated on up to two Macs, which covers the common case of a laptop and a desktop. Each activation takes one of those two slots. If you replace a machine or want to move your license elsewhere, deactivate it on the old Mac first — from the License settings or with ghost-sync license deactivate — which frees the slot so you can activate on the new one. There is nothing to email support about for an ordinary machine swap; deactivating returns the slot to you.
What happens offline
Specter validates your license with the store periodically, but it does not need a live connection every time you sync. After a successful validation it keeps working offline for a grace period of about a week, so a flight, a dead connection, or a quiet weekend never locks you out of your own blog. Once you are back online it re-validates quietly in the background. In normal use you will never notice this; it only matters to know that being offline for a day or two changes nothing.
If something looks wrong
If your key will not activate, the usual culprits are a stray space when pasting or trying to use the key on a third machine when both slots are already taken — deactivate one of the existing machines and try again. If you bought Pro and cannot find your key, or you have hit a genuine snag, that is what priority support is for; email support@spectersync.com and include the email you purchased with. And if Pro turns out not to be for you, there is a 14-day, no-questions refund — see the billing answers for how that works.
Once activated, nothing about the day-to-day changes except that the limit is gone. From here, the natural next steps are the ones you bought Pro to do at scale: editing posts with AI, bulk SEO edits, and refreshing old posts across your whole archive.