How do licenses work?

A subscription is a set of identical licenses, paid by one person: Mono holds one, Duo two, Family eight. The payer assigns a license to each member of their circles; each license covers one person, whatever their circles and role.

An assigned license arrives directly, with no invitation to accept, and the person is told. The payer can also turn on automatic assignment for a circle: each member they accept into it then gets a free license, in order of arrival. The person keeps the last word and can give their license back; the payer can take one back at any time. Either way, the person keeps sharing for three days, time enough to sort things out.

Every account starts with a 14-day trial, with no card and no automatic billing. Without a license at the end of the trial, or after a subscription ends, the account goes into spectator mode: it still sees what its people share and keeps its conversations, but no longer shares its position or records its trips, until a license is assigned to it again.

The license is tied to your Fenzly account, not to your phone: a subscription taken on Google Play keeps covering your account on an iPhone, and the other way round. The subscription itself is still managed in the store where it was taken. Two active subscriptions for the same payer do not add up; the most generous one is used and the other expires by itself. The guide Assigning licenses to my circle details the steps.