> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://pomeroy.app/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The free allowance

> Pomeroy is free for 50 actions a week, with no account and no card. This is what counts as an action, what happens when they run out, and how to check what is left.

Pomeroy is free for **50 actions a week**. No account, no card, no trial that
expires, and you can stay on it indefinitely.

## What an action is

One action is **one tool call**: one mail search, one look at your calendar,
one reminder added, one shortcut run.

A single question can cost more than one action. "What's on my calendar today
and is anything double-booked with a reminder?" is two apps, so at least two
actions. An assistant that searches your mail three times to find something has
spent three.

<Note>
  **Checking your allowance is free.** The `pomeroy_usage` tool never counts
  against the limit, so an assistant can check before a long run of calls
  without spending one.
</Note>

## What the allowance covers

|                     |                                                                      |
| ------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Per**             | This Mac                                                             |
| **Shared across**   | Every assistant connected to it                                      |
| **Refills**         | A week after the current window started                              |
| **Costs an action** | Every tool call that reaches one of your apps                        |
| **Costs nothing**   | `pomeroy_usage`, and any call refused because an app is switched off |

Connecting a second assistant does not give you more actions, and no tier
limits how many assistants a Mac may connect. The allowance belongs to the Mac.

## Checking what is left

Ask your assistant:

```text theme={null}
How much of my Pomeroy allowance is left this week?
```

It reports the limit, how many actions have been used, how many remain, and
when the count refills. The same numbers are in the Pomeroy panel.

## When it runs out

Nothing breaks and nothing is lost. Every tool answers with a message that says
what happened, when the count refills, and what to do about it. The
assistant relays that to you rather than inventing an error.

Your data is untouched. Your toggles are untouched. The next window starts a
week after the current one began, and the count goes back to 50.

## Why the clock cannot be cheated

The meter measures a week with your Mac's **monotonic clock**, the seconds since
boot, which counts time spent asleep and which no System Settings change can
move. Winding the date forward does not refill it.

The ordinary clock is used only where nothing else can answer, across a reboot,
and only ever forwards. This is not distrust so much as arithmetic: a meter
that measured weeks with a settable clock would not be measuring weeks.

## Removing the limit

**\$19 once** removes the weekly limit. There is no subscription, and no second
purchase. A licence covers one Mac at a time and includes every update to
Pomeroy 1.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Buy and activate" icon="key" href="/docs/licence/buy-and-activate">
    What buying sends, and how activation works.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Moving and refunds" icon="right-left" href="/docs/licence/moving-and-refunds">
    A new Mac, and the 14-day refund.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>