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Kids & learning48 titles kids can play free
Five minutes free, every title
Creative & audioStudio tools you keep
Mastering, logos, backgrounds
For eye doctorsEyeglass-Man EMROne payment. Your patients' charts stay yours.vision lookyBuilt by a practicing O.D.
Try before you buyCut XR: try it freeThe simple video editor you own. Free demo, no sign-up.
No forms. No sales call.
Business toolsBooking, receipts, time clock
Runs on the computer you already have
Create somethingBring your ideas to life.
Learn & playGreat software for curious minds.
Own your music too. Original songs by Vision Looky. Buy once, keep forever, play anywhere.
Own the music →
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Original game sounds, everyday effects and music stings. Press play to hear one, pay a dollar, use it forever.
Pay once. Own forever.
Your data stays with you.
Mac, Windows, Linux.
Software for every kind of business — every one a single payment, yours forever
✓ Runs on your own computer ✓ No cloud to lose ✓ Sealed license — never phones home after 30 days
See how it works✓ 30-day money-back ✓ One payment, own forever ✓ Sealed license
Shop guaranteed →Software companies quietly turned every tool into a rental — pay monthly forever, own nothing, lose access the day you stop. LookyBox works the way buying is supposed to work: you pay once, and the software is yours for life. Think of it as a marketplace like Alibaba — except nothing needs a container ship.
Renting$30/moforever · price climbs · stop paying, lose your work
5 years: $1,800 and still renting
Owning it$29.95once · yours for life · works offline
5 years: $29.95 and it's yours
The mathWhat five years of rented software actually costs, and why nothing here ships in a box.Read the math →
The evidenceSix studies on app sprawl, regret and redundant subscriptions, with sources.See the numbers →
The doctorBuilt behind the phoropter, not in Silicon Valley. Meet the practicing O.D. who writes it.Meet the doctor →
Your tradePick your business. See what's ready, what's on the bench, and request what's missing.Find your trade →
Looky TV
The whole idea in 60 seconds: software went from something you bought to something you rent. We sell it the old way.
You remember. It used to be normal. Three steps, then it's yours.
The price is on the box. Pay it one time. No subscription, no per-seat math, no "call for pricing."
One paymentMac, Windows or Linux. Working in minutes. It runs like a modern web app, but the server is your own machine, so your records stay with you.
Minutes, not weeksNo renewal date. No access to lose. Internet down, or LookyBox gone, and your software keeps working with your records in your hands.
Yours for life
Most of the shelf is still being built. Get a launch alert the day a product ships — founding buyers see the price before the public does.
Straight answers about buying software you own. Pick a topic or read them all.
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It depends on the software — LookyBox is a marketplace, not one product. Kids' titles are $5 to $19.99, creative tools start at $12, business tools and the ready-made business boxes run from $49 to $799, and the full Eyeglass-Man EMR for an eye-care practice is $2,995.00. Every price is printed on the box, and every price is the whole price: no monthly fee, no per-seat math, no "call for pricing."
Yes — for every product on the shelf. You pay the price on the box once and the license is perpetual: the software never expires, never phones home for a renewal, never locks you out. There is no subscription to cancel because there is no subscription.
Only to download. After that the software runs on your computer — most titles even run straight from a USB drive. The one exception is a paid license's first 30 days, when the app checks in briefly so the money-back guarantee can work; after that it is sealed and never connects again.
Every paid product has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Ask for a refund inside 30 days and the license deactivates; keep it past 30 days and it seals — yours for good, and it never contacts us again.
Kids' titles have no ads, no chat, no sign-ups, no tracking, and nothing in them connects to the internet. There is no account to create and nothing to subscribe to. Every kids' title has a free five-minute-a-day demo so you can see it before you buy.
Yes. The Classroom Box is a site license: one payment covers every computer in the classroom.
The computer already sitting at your front desk — Mac, Windows or Linux. The downloadable apps are built cross-platform, so the same purchase installs on any of the three. No server room, no IT contract, no special hardware. Many titles, including the kids' games and the creative tools, also run right in your browser on any computer.
Updates and bug fixes for your software are included — and there is never a subscription hiding behind them. You paid once; you're done paying. Your software keeps working forever.
Nothing happens to your software. It runs on your own computer, so an internet outage doesn't touch it — charting, booking, receipts, all of it keeps working. And after the 30-day guarantee window every license is sealed: the app never contacts our server again, ever. If LookyBox vanished tomorrow, your software would open on Monday exactly as it did on Friday, with your data in open formats you can read with any tool. That is the whole point of buying instead of renting.
On your own machine. LookyBox software is designed for local-first privacy: your records, receipts, and files stay on the computer you installed it on, not on our servers, and we have no access to them. Local storage by itself is not security, so for practice software we document the actual controls — password hashing, role-based accounts, session limits, one-click backups — and what stays on your side. See the EMR's full list of controls →
Most of the shelf is built by Vision Looky — an optometrist who got tired of renting software for his own practice. Other makers can sell on LookyBox too, under the same rules: one payment, sealed license, the buyer keeps it forever. Sell on LookyBox →
Email support from the people who build the software — not a ticket queue in another timezone. Founding practices get direct access to the doctor who wrote the EMR.
Every time someone buys software instead of renting it, somewhere a chart goes down a little.
One price. One download. Yours for life.