Pricing
Verification is free. It always will be.
Paying unlocks destinations, reports and queueing. It never unlocks the guarantee that your copy is good — that is in the free tier, in full, for every file.
Free
€0
- Read-back verification of every file, always on
- One local destination
- Card detection, file filters, choose your own source folder
- CSV report and a basic PDF
- Resume an interrupted offload
- No account, no time limit, no nagging
Pro
€9.99 / month
€89 / year — 7-day trial
- Multiple destinations, written simultaneously from one read
- Remote destinations over SFTP — your NAS included
- ASC MHL report, plus the full camera report: thumbnails, camera metadata, JSON, your logo
- Destination presets and a job queue
- One licence covers every Mac on your Apple Account
Prices shown for the euro-zone App Store. Apple sets price points per territory and per currency, so the exact amount in your country may differ by a few units. One deliberate omission: we do not print converted prices here, because they would be wrong the moment a rate moves.
Free tier included, with full read-back verification and no time limit. Pro is €9.99 a month or €89 a year, covering every Mac on your Apple Account.
Why verification is not a tier
It would be an obvious upsell. Put read-back verification behind Pro, ship the free tier with a plain copy, and every serious user upgrades on day one.
We are not going to, and the reason is not generosity. A verification you have to pay for is a verification the vendor is willing to let you skip. The moment integrity is a line item, someone somewhere ships a job with it switched off. It stays in the free tier permanently, and it is not a setting you can turn off to go faster.
One licence, every Mac
Card Offloader is sold through the Mac App Store, so a purchase covers every Mac signed in to the same Apple Account. A laptop on set and a workstation in the edit suite are one subscription.
This matters more than it sounds, because the alternative is how the rest of the category works:
| Product | Price | Covers |
|---|---|---|
| ShotPut Pro (Mac) | $169 | Single CPU application (may only be used on one computer at a time) |
| OffShoot | $169 | Per activation |
| OffShoot Pro | $249 | Per activation |
| lastcard | $59 | 2 Macs |
| Card Offloader Pro | €89/yr | Every Mac on one Apple Account |
The three-year arithmetic, including where it stops helping us
The established tools are sold as one-time purchases, which they are not quite: the price buys the software plus a year of updates, after which staying current costs money again.
| Three years | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ShotPut Pro | $169 | +$59 | +$59 | $287 |
| OffShoot | $169 | ? | ? | not published |
| Card Offloader Pro | €89 | €89 | €89 | €267 |
So over three years we come out slightly cheaper than ShotPut Pro, with no entry barrier and covering more than one machine. For OffShoot the renewal price is not published on the product page, so we are not going to invent one.
And here is where the comparison goes against us
Over three years, lastcard costs $59 once — two Macs, all updates included, permanently — and it writes ASC MHL 2.0. Stow is free, on macOS and Windows, and writes ASC-MHL v2. (Both checked 24/08/26.)
Against those, €267 over three years is not a bargain and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What you are paying for is multiple simultaneous destinations, remote destinations, the camera report, and the queue — and, if none of that is worth it to you, the honest answer is that the free tools are good and you should use them.
There is no lifetime licence
Not as an oversight. Selling one is a way of agreeing that perpetual is the right model, and we do not think it is — a one-time price with paid annual updates is a subscription wearing a hat, and a $169 hat at that.
The honest argument for subscriptions is maintenance, not features: you can stop paying and keep the version you have, but an offloader that stops being updated stops understanding your next camera, your next card format and your next macOS. Cameras and file formats do not hold still.
The honest argument against us is equally real, and worth stating: if you shoot on a fixed set of machines with a fixed macOS and a camera you are not replacing, a perpetual licence will cost you less. That is a genuine case, and if it is yours, buy the perpetual one.
About the trial
Seven days on the annual plan. Long enough for a DIT working daily, possibly not long enough for a wedding photographer who offloads a card every other week — a real limitation, and we would rather write it here than have you discover it.
The mitigation is that the free tier is not a demo. It has no expiry, no watermark and no reduced verification, so you can judge whether the software is any good without spending a day of the trial on it. The trial is for the paid features specifically: several destinations at once, the remote ones, the reports.