Family and device management is here
Your account now lists every PC signed in to it, and Pro Family covers five people and five shared devices. Everyone keeps their own sign-in and settings.
Your eclean account now manages the PCs signed in to it, and Pro Family works the way a family plan should.
Two new pages arrived in your account this week. Devices lists every computer signed in to the eclean app and whether each one uses eclean Pro or Free. Family is where a Pro Family owner invites the people who share the plan. Behind them sits new device and entitlement machinery in the app and the API, and it changes how limits behave in ways worth spelling out.
Every PC on your account, in one list
Sign in to the eclean app on a PC and it shows up on the devices page. Each row carries the computer's name, platform, app version, and when it was last seen. From there you can rename a device, move it between eclean Pro and Free, or remove it entirely.
Each action does exactly what it says and nothing more. Deactivating a device releases its Pro slot but keeps it signed in, running Free with its local data untouched. Removing a device is a real remote sign-out. It disappears from the list right away and is signed out on that computer within a minute or two. If a laptop carrying your account leaves your life, this is the page that ends its access.
The app keeps up without a restart. Activate Pro on a PC from the website and the app on that PC switches over within a minute or two, and the same goes for deactivation, removal, and family changes.
Limits that refuse instead of evict
Every plan has a device allowance. Free keeps up to three devices signed in, up from one before this release. Pro activates up to two, and Pro Family shares five slots across the whole household.
What changed is what happens at the edge of that allowance. Signing in on one PC too many used to quietly sign out the oldest device, and you found out later, on the wrong machine. Now the sign-in stops and shows you the situation instead. You choose what to do, free up a slot, remove an old machine, or continue on Free, and nothing is deactivated or signed out unless you chose it. Accounts already over the Free limit are not punished either. The devices already signed in keep working, and new sign-ins wait until you make room.
A household plan, not a shared login
Pro Family covers five accounts and five shared devices, and the point of this release is that it now behaves like that.
Buying Pro Family creates your family automatically. From the family page you invite people by email, and each invitation reserves a seat for seven days. When someone accepts, their own eclean account gets Pro through your plan. Everyone keeps their own sign-in, their own settings, and their own billing. A member who already pays for a plan of their own keeps it, their plan wins over the family, and their devices draw from their own allowance instead of the shared pool.
Leaving is as undramatic as joining. Remove a member, or let a member leave, and their account simply falls back to their own plan or to Free. Their devices, sessions, and local data are untouched. If the family subscription lapses, the family is suspended rather than deleted. Seats and invitations wait, and everything comes back when the plan is active again.
One thing Pro Family is not is parental controls. There are no child accounts, no oversight, and no way to watch what anyone else does. It is a way to pay once for five people, nothing more.
Private by design
A family plan is a strange place to leak information, so this one is built not to.
Members never see each other's devices. The family page shows how many shared slots are in use, and the owner sees how many slots each member draws, but never a device name or detail that is not theirs. Inviting an email address never reveals whether it belongs to an eclean account, and accepting requires being signed in to an account whose verified email matches the invited address, so a forwarded link goes nowhere. Sensitive actions ask you to confirm it is you again first, whether that is removing a member, removing a device, or ending the family. And the server identifies each PC by a keyed hash of its machine identifier, stored in place of the identifier itself.
Where to start
Pro Family is on the pricing page. If you already have it, the family page is ready for your invitations, and every PC on your account is on the devices page. The complete list of changes, including a smarter pricing page and live chat that can answer account questions directly, is in the changelog.