Wavebox: what the free tier covers

Wavebox has three plans. Basic is free and allows two groups with two apps in each, one extension and one dashboard. Wavebox Pro costs $8.33 per month paid annually, which works out to $99.96 a year, and removes those limits. Teams costs $12.50 per user per month and adds shared dashboards and consolidated billing. Every new account starts with a 7-day Pro trial that needs no credit card, and paid plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. This site is run by the developer of a multi-account browser for macOS, one of the products compared below. All figures on this page were checked on the Wavebox pricing page on October 18, 2026.

Wavebox pricing at a glance

Plan	Price	What it includes
Basic	Free	Work and home spaces, 2 groups with 2 apps in each, 1 extension, 1 dashboard
Wavebox Pro	$8.33 per month, paid annually	Unlimited spaces, groups and apps, all extensions, cloud sync, unlimited dashboards
Teams	$12.50 per user per month	Everything in Pro, plus Connect, shared dashboards, Wavebox Live and consolidated billing

Two discounts sit beside the table. Full-time students and people who work in education get 70% off, and so do non-profit teams. Neither is applied automatically: Wavebox asks people to start a trial with an education or .org email address and then email support to be moved onto the discounted plan.

The app itself runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. The Wavebox download page lists macOS 13 Ventura and above for the Mac build, optimized for both Apple Silicon and Intel. A Mac that cannot run Ventura cannot run the current version, which is worth checking before the trial clock starts.

The same download page also says that after the trial, people can subscribe monthly or annually. The pricing page shows only the annual figure for Pro, so the monthly price is something to read inside the app's billing screen before choosing it.

What the free Basic plan covers in practice

The phrase "2 groups, 2 apps in each" is the limit that decides whether Basic is enough. In Wavebox, a group usually holds one account or one area of work, and the apps inside it are the web services that belong to that account. Wavebox's own FAQ gives the typical example: staying signed in to two Gmail accounts, one for work and one for home.

That means Basic comfortably covers a setup like this:

• A work group with Gmail and Google Calendar
• A home group with a personal Gmail and one more service

It does not cover a third account, a separate group for a client, or a work group that also needs Slack, Notion and a project tool. Anyone who already runs three or more signed-in services for one job will hit the ceiling on the first day after the trial.

The single extension is the second constraint. Many people rely on a password manager plus one more extension, such as a grammar checker or an ad blocker. On Basic, the password manager alone uses the allowance. Pro unlocks all extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

The one dashboard is the third. Dashboards in Wavebox are start pages built from widgets and links. One is enough for a personal start page, but not for one dashboard per client.

What Basic does keep is the rest of the browser. It is still a full Chromium browser with tabs, and the work and home spaces stay separate. Anything added during the trial does not vanish. Wavebox's FAQ states that items added during the trial become available again instantly after upgrading.

What Pro adds, and what a year really costs

Pro removes every count limit: unlimited spaces, groups and apps, all extensions, cloud sync between computers and unlimited dashboards. For someone who manages several clients from one machine, the unlimited groups are the reason to pay. Each client gets its own group with its own sign-ins, and nothing has to be signed out to make room.

The cost arithmetic is simple. At $8.33 a month paid annually, a year of Pro is $99.96, charged up front. Over three years, that is about $300 for one person. The education and non-profit discount of 70% brings the same year down to about $30.

Cloud sync is easy to overlook when comparing plans. Without it, a second Mac or a Windows machine needs its groups and apps set up again by hand. With it, the same setup appears on each computer after signing in. For anyone who works from a laptop and a desktop, sync alone can justify the upgrade.

Wavebox also makes an argument on its pricing page that is worth weighing on its own terms: the subscription is how the browser runs without ads or tracking, and built-in features can replace some paid extensions. Whether that saves money depends on which extensions and tools a person already pays for. A quick audit of current subscriptions answers the question better than any general claim.

When the Teams plan is the right answer

Teams costs $12.50 per user per month, which is about $4.17 more per person per month than Pro. For a team of five, that comes to $62.50 a month, or $750 a year.

What the extra pays for is administration rather than personal features:

• Consolidated billing, so one admin pays for everyone instead of five people expensing their own Pro plans
• Shared dashboards, so a team sees the same set of links and widgets
• Connect and Wavebox Live, collaboration features listed only on the Teams tier
• Admin control over who holds a seat, managed from the admin's own Wavebox account

Wavebox's FAQ says the first person to create a team becomes the admin, and the role can be passed to someone else later. For a freelancer or a two-person partnership, Pro per person is usually simpler. Once a company needs one invoice, central seat management or shared starting points for new hires, Teams starts to earn its higher price.

The trial, the refund and how to cancel

The trial and the free plan are easy to confuse, and the difference matters. For the first 7 days, every account runs Wavebox Pro with no limits. On day 8, an account that has not subscribed drops to Basic. Anything above the Basic limits stops being available until the account upgrades.

A practical way to use those seven days:

1. Before installing, write down the accounts and apps that must be open at once on a normal workday.
2. Build exactly that setup during the trial, not a larger one.
3. On day 5 or 6, count the groups, apps and extensions in use and compare them with Basic's limits.
4. Decide before the trial ends, so the drop to Basic does not interrupt work in the middle of a day.

If Pro turns out not to fit after paying, the 30-day money-back guarantee applies. The pricing FAQ says to email [email protected] for a refund. To cancel, open the app and go to My Wavebox, then Billing, where the subscription can be managed and cancelled at any time.

Three setups and the plan each one needs

Limits are easier to judge against real setups than against a feature list. These three examples use only the limits on the pricing page.

One job, one personal life

A salaried employee keeps a work Gmail with Calendar in one group and a personal Gmail with one shopping or banking site in the other. That is two groups with two apps each, and a password manager as the single extension. This setup fits Basic exactly, and paying adds little. The risk is growth: the day Slack joins the work group, the group needs a third app and the plan no longer fits.

A freelancer with three clients

A freelancer runs a personal group and one group per client, each with mail and a chat tool. That is four groups, well past Basic's two. Pro is the realistic plan here, at $99.96 a year. Cloud sync becomes useful too, since freelancers often switch between a laptop at a client's office and a desktop at home. If the freelancer qualifies for the education discount, for example while teaching part time, the same year drops to about $30.

A five-person agency

An agency of five wants the same client dashboards on every machine and one invoice for the accountant. Five Pro subscriptions would cost about $500 a year and leave five separate bills. Teams costs $750 a year for the same five people and replaces those bills with consolidated billing, plus shared dashboards. The extra $250 is the price of administration, and whether it is worth paying depends on how much time the five separate bills and setups currently take.

The pattern across the three is that Basic suits a fixed, small setup, Pro suits a growing number of accounts for one person, and Teams suits shared setup and billing across people.

How Wavebox pricing compares with similar browsers

Wavebox is one of several browsers that gather web apps into one window. Prices and free limits differ more than the features do. These figures come from each vendor's own pricing page, checked on October 18, 2026.

Product	Free plan	Paid plan
Wavebox	2 groups with 2 apps each, 1 extension	Pro $8.33 per month, paid annually
Rambox	Unlimited apps, up to 2 instances per app, 1 active session	Pro $7 per month or $70 per year
Shift	5 spaces, 10 apps per space	Advanced $199.99 per year
A macOS-only multi-account browser	1 workspace with up to 3 apps	$7 per month, $60 per year or $129 one time

The sources are the Rambox pricing page and the Shift pricing page. Rambox includes a 30-day Pro trial. Its free plan has no cap on the number of apps but limits each app to two instances and allows one active computer, while workspaces and multi-login are Pro features.

The last row describes the kind of tool whose comparison with Wavebox is published on this site. It runs only on macOS, needs no account to start, and offers a one-time license next to the subscription. Its pricing page lists a 14-day trial with no card, which can be extended once by 7 days.

Which line is cheapest depends on the shape of the work. Someone with two accounts and a handful of apps may never leave a free plan. Someone with six clients will pay on any of these products, and the deciding factors become platform support, whether a one-time license is available, and how the product handles several accounts on the same service.

What to change first

List the accounts and apps that need to stay signed in at the same time, then compare that count with Wavebox Basic's two groups of two apps before starting the trial. If the work happens only on a Mac and a one-time license appeals more than a subscription, look at SpaceDeck alongside it.