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Free, and free the way the word is supposed to mean: no account, no card, not even an email address. Nothing to sign up to, nothing to dismiss, no trial counting down. Every byte of your training lives on the machine you install it on.

Every platform

What you get without paying anything

The whole app. Every module — the Logbook, the Archive, the Workshop, your Profile. There are no ads, no nags and no feature behind a countdown.

Every theme and every appearance setting comes free too. Two things are not in the free apps, and both for the same reason: they need a server, and a server costs money every month. Your devices do not sync to each other — the free desktop app and the free phone app are each an island, because there is no cloud in between them — and you cannot share your own photos and clips. If you want those, Standard or Deluxe is what pays for the machine in the middle.

Your computer may warn you the first time

Plates is not code-signed yet, and that is a money decision rather than a technical one. The certificates that stop these warnings are rented, not bought: roughly £79 a year to Apple, and £200–£400 a year for the Windows one, every year, forever. Plates is one person with no revenue, so that money would come out of building the thing you are about to download. It gets paid for out of subscriptions, not before them.

So you may see one of the screens below. It is worth being precise about what it means: your computer is telling you nobody has paid to vouch for this developer. It is not telling you it found anything wrong with the file, and it would say exactly the same thing about a signed app whose certificate had lapsed. Every small developer's first release gets it.

If you would rather not click through a warning, that is a completely reasonable thing to decide — wait for a signed build, and nothing is lost: the web app needs no download at all, and your training history is the same either way.

Running it on Linux

An AppImage is the whole app in one file — nothing to install, and deleting the file uninstalls it. What it is not is runnable on arrival: a browser saves it without permission to execute, so double-clicking it does nothing at all and no error is shown. That is the file behaving exactly as downloaded files are supposed to, and it catches everybody once.

  1. In your file manager: right-click Plates-1.0.13.AppImage → Properties → Permissions → tick Allow executing file as program. Then double-click it.
  2. Or in a terminal: chmod +x Plates-1.0.13.AppImage then ./Plates-1.0.13.AppImage

If it reports something about FUSE — Ubuntu 24.04 and some others no longer ship it — run ./Plates-1.0.13.AppImage --appimage-extract-and-run, which unpacks it instead of mounting it. Either way it needs no root, installs nothing system-wide, and keeps your training in a database under your home folder.

Installing on Android

Until Plates is on Google Play, the Android app is the file itself. Phones ask once before installing an app that did not come from the Play Store — that is the phone being careful, not a problem with the file.

  1. Open Plates-1.0.15.apk from your downloads.
  2. If the phone says installs from this source are not allowed, tap Settings, turn on Allow from this source, and go back.
  3. Tap Install. A newer APK installs over the old one and keeps your training.

For anyone who would rather check than trust, the SHA-256 of each file is listed below. Compare it after downloading — shasum -a 256 <file> on macOS or Linux, Get-FileHash <file> in PowerShell.

Windows
Plates-Setup-1.0.13.exe
01ae89331b2a8a744d02495df1abd13c2a63ed63fecf84c7fc714f765cf87a5d
macOS · Apple Silicon
Plates-1.0.13-arm64.dmg
1c2d6d337c24789c029dfc7a6a494602626f5beb8184231eb124f223916e32ac
macOS · Intel
Plates-1.0.13.dmg
c550009c50fddd6ad7e145899dabb4e36dd1d8ccdf22a7c822bd39dedfed7d57
Linux
Plates-1.0.13.AppImage
9af5da5dad8c465f4ade7fdcd1000adf02eb82e38ccc303c316c0e60d167308e
Android
Plates-1.0.15.apk
a4baeba8f6d345c66af670e823a55c6b6e0c51d5bd219347be44fd47d821ff2c