GoButtons

What it costs

One subscription, one invoice, one renewal date. You pay for the devices with buttons on them and the people who answer — nothing else, and never per press.

The devices are phones and tablets you already own. GoButtons is software; nothing physical is sold or shipped.

Free for two weeks. Nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel before then.

The plan, and the two things you can add to it

GoButtons

$9.99 a month

One station, and one person besides you.

  • $2.99 a month each

    Extra station

    One more device with the buttons on it.

  • $4.99 a month each

    Extra person

    One more person who gets the presses and can reply.

You are not one of the people you pay for. The account is yours, and the price is for everyone else who needs to get the presses.

What that adds up to

Three ordinary setups, with the sums shown. Yours is whatever mix of devices and people you need — these are not packages to choose between.

  • One person at home, one relative nearby

    1 station, and 1 person besides you

    GoButtons
    $9.99
    A month
    $9.99

  • One person at home, and three of the family sharing the load

    1 station, and 3 people besides you

    GoButtons
    $9.99
    2 extra people × $4.99
    $9.98
    A month
    $19.97

  • A bedroom and a kitchen, with two people answering

    2 stations, and 2 people besides you

    GoButtons
    $9.99
    1 extra station × $2.99
    $2.99
    1 extra person × $4.99
    $4.99
    A month
    $17.97

Prices are in US dollars and do not include tax. Paddle, who take the payment, add whatever tax applies where you live at the checkout — so the figure you are charged may be a little higher than the figure above.

The first two weeks are free

You get two weeks to set it up and see whether it works for you. Starting the trial asks for a card, because that is what pays for the plan once the trial is over — but nothing is charged during it. If you decide against it, cancel before the two weeks are up and you pay nothing. If you do nothing, the first month is charged when the trial ends.

There is no free tier after that. GoButtons is a paid product, and the reason is in the next section: the thing that keeps working when you stop paying is not a free plan we could take away.

If payment stops, the buttons do not

Whether you cancel, the trial runs out, or a card simply expires: every station you have set up keeps working, and nobody is removed. Each station falls back to a single I need help button, and pressing it still reaches you exactly as it did before.

What lapses is the paid capacity — the extra stations, the extra people, and the choice of several buttons per station. What does not lapse is somebody's way of asking for help. The person holding the buttons is usually not the person holding the card, and they should never be the one who finds out it expired.

Cancelling and refunds are covered properly on the Refund Policy.

The small print, in normal size

One subscription
Stations and people are added to the same subscription, so it stays one invoice with one renewal date, whatever you are running.
Monthly, and you can stop
Billing is monthly. Cancelling stops the next payment and you keep what you are paying for until that month runs out.
Up to 100 extra of each
The checkout handles up to 100 extra stations and 100 extra people. If you need more than that, write to us — at that size it should be a conversation rather than a form.
Nothing costs per press
Presses, replies and notifications are not metered and never will be. A product somebody uses to ask for help must not make them wonder what a press costs.

Start your free trial

The prices above are what the checkout charges. There is nothing else, and no figure on this page is rounded or introductory. The account comes first and costs nothing: a name, an email address and a password, then a code we email you. The plan is chosen from inside it, with a card: the first two weeks are free and nothing is charged until the trial ends; if you do nothing, the first month is charged when the trial ends.

The app runs in a browser at app.gobuttons.app, on a phone or tablet you already have, with nothing to install. It is not in the app stores yet — iOS builds go to a small group through TestFlight — and this page will say so plainly on the day that changes, rather than show a badge that is not true.

Questions first? Write to hello@gobuttons.app. It reaches a person, not a mailing list.