What Windows versions does FloDee run on?
FloDee runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11. It requires a 64-bit system.
Is FloDee free? What happens when the trial ends?
FloDee never stops working. Download and install it — no credit card, no
account — and installing or using it never contacts our servers at all (only purchasing
and activating a license key does). Every new install runs the whole program,
completely unlocked, for 1440 hours (the number of hours in 60 days) of actual
use. That's counted only while FloDee is genuinely running, not calendar days, so your install
can sit on your PC for months as long as you haven't used up those hours.
When those hours are up, FloDee doesn't expire or shut down — it simply carries on as the
free version: 3 each of the core panel types — Open Apps, User Apps,
Files, Notepad, Chat Channel, Who's Online, Clipboard History, Volume Mixer, Input Visualizer
and Magnifier — plus 3 OBS Control panels, VNote sticky notes, Deskspaces, the whole
capture toolkit and more (the full free-vs-full table is above), with no time limit, forever. Any panels beyond that are set aside, never deleted.
Everything in them is kept exactly as it is — including anything you'd written in a
Notepad panel — and activating a license brings your whole layout back precisely as it
was. You'll be told what's being set aside before it happens, and again afterwards.
If a new update is released after your trial hours run out, you'll get a 7-day preview window to
check out what's new before deciding to buy.
How do I get my license key after purchasing?
Your license key is generated and emailed to you automatically, usually within seconds of
purchase. Purchasing doesn't separately hand you the app — if you haven't already
installed FloDee, grab it from the same download link as the free demo (it's the exact same
installer either way). Once it's running, enter your key by right-clicking the floater dot,
choosing "Settings," opening the "Help" tab, and clicking "Activate License."
Can I use FloDee on more than one computer?
Yes — a Personal license activates on up to 3 machines, and a Pro/Business license on up
to 8. If you need to move a license, you can
deactivate a machine from within FloDee to free up a seat. If a machine dies or gets reformatted
before you could deactivate it, email support and we'll free the stuck seat for you. We're glad
to help with lost seats — just note that, to prevent abuse, seat resets and replacement
keys are handled at our discretion, may require proof of purchase, and only ever restore the
license you already own.
What's the difference between Personal and Pro/Business?
Personal ($25) covers personal, non-commercial use on up to 3 machines. Pro/Business ($49) is the
licence for commercial and business use, and adds a formal invoice on request,
priority email support, and activation on up to 8 machines. Both are one-time purchases and the
app itself is identical — no features are held back from either.
Is there a subscription fee?
No. FloDee is a one-time purchase — no recurring fees. All versions of FloDee are supported
for 3 years with free updates and support. After a version's 3 years have expired, that version
of FloDee is no longer supported aside from emergency patches.
Where can I see every mouse and keyboard shortcut?
Hover over any panel and press F1 — it brings up that panel's help,
including its click and key combos. The ? button in a panel's title bar shows
the exact same help; F1 is just a keyboard shortcut to it so you don't have to go find the
button.
Why is FloDee so efficient?
The floater's positioning is engineered around Fitts's Law, the
foundational human-computer interaction model that predicts how long it takes to rapidly move
to and acquire a target:
T = a + b·log₂(1 + D⁄W)
Here T
is the average movement time, a and b are empirically-fitted constants for
a device's start/stop time and inherent speed, D is the distance from your starting
point to the center of the target, and W is the target's effective width along the
axis of motion (equivalently, the allowed ±W⁄2 tolerance around its
center). Because that index-of-difficulty term grows logarithmically rather than linearly,
even small reductions in D produce disproportionately large reductions in T
— and minimizing exactly that variable, in real time, is what the floater is built to
do.
In simple terms: rather than you traveling to your tools, they travel to you — cutting
out the distance (and the time) it takes to reach them, greatly reducing repetitive strain
injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome, while at the same time boosting productivity
exponentially.
Is FloDee secure?
FloDee collects no usage analytics and keeps no record of what you do in it, and stores everything you
create — settings, notes, panel layouts — only on your own computer. FloDee does count
installs: the first time a version runs on a computer it sends a one-way code standing for that
computer, the FloDee version and the Windows version — no name, email, licence key or file
information, once rather than on every launch, and switchable off in Settings › Help. One
further optional extra, off unless you turn it on: an update check can include your FloDee version
number, so we can tell how many people are still on older builds.
Otherwise the only thing
FloDee ever sends out automatically is a license check, which contains your license key and a
one-way hash of a couple of hardware identifiers, never your name, files, or the original
hardware IDs themselves. If you use the Chat Channel panel to message other FloDee users, those
connections are TLS-encrypted; the first time you connect to a new contact FloDee remembers
their certificate, and warns you if it ever changes unexpectedly. Incoming file transfers are
sandboxed to your configured download folder — a received file can never write outside it,
no matter what its name contains.
Does FloDee have AI in it?
No — FloDee is AI-free. The FloDee application contains no AI
models, no AI features or functions, and connects to no AI service: nothing built in, nothing
attached, nothing called. The “AI Models Used for Safety & Quality Control” note
you’ll see on this site and in the app’s Help window refers only to AI tools that
reviewed FloDee’s source code during development, the way an outside code reviewer
would — none of that is inside the program you install. The help-chat mascot on this
website is the only AI anywhere near FloDee, and it lives on the website, not in the app.
Voice typing and OCR text capture are performed by Windows’ own built-in features on your
machine.
What does FloDee connect to over the network?
Very little, and nothing hidden. If you've activated a license, FloDee briefly checks in with the
license server once at startup (and explicitly when you activate or deactivate a machine)
— if you're offline, this fails silently and never blocks you from using the app; demo
users with no license key make no such connection at all. The Chat Channel panel is
peer-to-peer, not routed through any server of ours — messages and files between FloDee
instances are encrypted, and nothing leaves your local network unless you actually message
someone. And if you add the optional OBS Control panel, it talks only to your own OBS Studio's
built-in WebSocket server at the address you configure (your own PC by default). FloDee also sends
one short install-count message the first time a version runs on your machine — a one-way
code for the computer, the FloDee version and the Windows version, and nothing else; it is
switchable off in Settings › Help. Beyond that there's no
background update-checker unless you switch the daily check on, and no analytics calls of any kind.
Why do some features work differently (or not at all) on my PC?
Two common, by-design reasons. First, administrator mode: Windows deliberately
restricts interaction between programs running at different privilege levels (a protection
called UIPI). If FloDee runs as administrator, normal apps like Explorer can't drag-and-drop
into it; if it runs without administrator rights — the default, and by Windows design the
more flexible mode for the everyday user — it can't manage windows belonging to elevated
apps. Neither mode is broken; each trades some capabilities for others, so if something seems
unresponsive, try the other mode first. Second, hardware: a few functions
depend on your specific hardware and drivers (mice without tilt or thumb buttons, unusual
display adapters, remote-desktop sessions) and may be limited or unavailable on some systems.
These are Windows and hardware constraints, not defects in FloDee.
