One-time purchase
An invoicing app you can buy once.
Ochre sells Lifetime, a one-time purchase, next to its monthly and yearly plans. One plan covers every business you run and every iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account, whichever way you pay.
The three ways to pay
| Plan | US price | Renews? | 7-day free trial? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $11.99 a month | Yes, until you cancel | Yes |
| Yearly | $99.99 a year | Yes, until you cancel | Yes |
| Lifetime | $299.99, once | No | No |
These are US prices. The App Store sets the price in your own currency, so what you see at checkout may differ.
What the trial covers
The 7-day free trial is Apple’s introductory offer, and Apple only offers one on an auto-renewing subscription. So it covers the monthly and yearly plans, and it does not cover Lifetime. A trial starts through Apple’s purchase sheet; nothing is charged for 7 days, and it renews into the plan you chose unless you cancel first.
Lifetime and the subscriptions, side by side
All three are the same Ochre Pro. One plan covers every business you run and every iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account. Ochre is never priced per device or per business, so Lifetime is not a single-device licence.
The arithmetic is simple. $299.99 is about 25 months of the monthly plan, or about three years of the yearly plan. If you expect to invoice for less than that, a subscription costs less. If you expect to invoice for longer, or you would rather not have a renewal to think about, Lifetime costs less over time.
What you keep if you stop
Everything you have already made stays yours. Open it, print it, email it, export it, back it up. If a subscription lapses with no active plan, the one thing Ochre holds back is issuing new documents. That is a deliberate design choice. A Lifetime purchase does not renew, so there is nothing to lapse.
Where Lifetime is not the right choice
If you want to try Ochre before paying anything, the free trial is on the subscriptions only. If you would rather spread the cost, or you may stop invoicing within a couple of years, monthly or yearly costs less than Lifetime. And Ochre runs on Apple devices only, so a one-time purchase does not change that. It is not an accounting package: no bank feeds, no automatic reconciliation and no payroll.
Other apps
We checked six other invoicing apps for a one-time purchase tier, on 2026-10-15, and none of the six sold one. The dated, sourced table is on One-time purchase invoicing apps for Mac. Prices and plans change, so check the app you are comparing before you decide.
Using a Mac? See Ochre for Mac.