The trial version of DEVONthink features all the functions of our top-of-the-line edition, DEVONthink Server. This allows you to try out many powerful options, shown in the menus with a blue star, like the built-in OCR, email archiving, custom metadata, and more.

When you purchase a license for DEVONthink, you will only have the features available to your specific license. If you want to continue using any of the features marked with the star, you need to purchase at least the Pro edition. When you do, you will also get the other functions except for the web sharing, unless you purchase the Server edition.

Click here for an overview about what functionality is available in which edition of DEVONthink.

There is no separate download for each edition of DEVONthink, it’s just one application to download and install. It will be named DEVONthink 3 in the Finder.

Only when you have purchased a license for any edition of DEVONthink and applied a seat to the machine, it activates the chosen feature set. You can verify the edition you’re running with one of these options:

• Read the ​Registered to ​line in the splash screen, accessible via ​DEVONthink 3 > About DEVONthink 3​.
• Click the Welcome link at the bottom of the ​Help > Support Assistant.
• Check the menus. For example, if you see a blue star on Data > OCR, that is a feature of the Pro or Server editions, so you’re running the Standard edition.

• Applications are independently developed so features and functions in one aren’t necessarily going to be in another. And the vision and focus of each development team may not lead them to implementing the same features as other apps.
• Some features aren’t technically feasible to implement. Also, one developer may use proprietary code to add a feature, so reproducing it in another app may not be easily done.
• Not every feature makes sense in every application, for example it would of course be technically possible to add podcasting features to DEVONthink To Go but it’s far outside the focus of the app.

However, we always listen to and assess politely made suggestions.