Free and Pro
What a free account can do, what the 3-day trial covers, and what Pro adds.
Free includes five downloads per rolling 24 hours. Pro removes the limit.
9xbuddy runs without a subscription. A free account downloads from the same 1000+ sites and keeps everything local, and it keeps the whole workspace: the Library, collections, favorites, History, notifications, the tray icon and the keyboard shortcuts are all free. The limits are on how much you can download, how many devices share the account, and a set of advanced controls: the built-in browser among them. The full split is below.
The 3-day trial
Creating a UID inside the app starts a 3-day trial with the Pro features below unlocked. The onboarding screen says so under Create your UID.
A UID bought on 123sudo.com works differently: it grants nothing until the payment settles, because that account is on its way to a checkout rather than trying the product. See Your 123sudo UID.
The advanced clipboard popup is included during the trial. Standard clipboard watching and its system Review notification remain free after the trial or a Pro subscription expires.
When a trial ends, nothing is deleted. The account returns to the free limits, and files you already downloaded stay where they are.
What each plan includes
The Free and Pro feature split is the same on desktop and Android. The trial includes Pro features on 1 device; paid Pro allows up to 3.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Supported sites | 1000+ | 1000+ |
| Downloads per day | 5 | Unlimited |
| Devices per UID | 1 | 3 |
| Video and image results | Yes | Yes |
| Library, collections and favorites | Yes | Yes |
| History, appearance, notifications, tray and shortcuts | Yes | Yes |
| Audio and subtitle extraction | No | Yes |
| Video quality above 1080p | No | Yes |
| Preview a format before downloading | No | Yes |
| One-click download | No | Yes |
| Advanced clipboard popup with Download and Review (desktop) | No | Yes |
| Bulk: multi-link paste, file import, playlist and channel expansion | No | Yes |
| Trim, and convert to MP3 | No | Yes |
| Retry all and re-download | No | Yes |
| Pause or resume all downloads | No | Yes |
| Restart a transfer or recover in Browser | No | Yes |
| Built-in browser | No | Yes |
| Saved cookie sources (Browser, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, cookies.txt) | No | Yes |
| Custom headers | No | Yes |
| Parallel connections | 1 | Configurable |
| Parallel downloads | 1 | Configurable |
| Auto-retry failed downloads | No | Yes |
| Proxy support | No | Yes |
| Backup extractor | No | Yes |
| Priority support | No | Yes |
Pricing carries the current terms and prices. Update 9xbuddy if the controls in your installed build do not match the current plan, then contact support if the difference remains.
Where the limits show up
- The Google Play build does not download from YouTube.
- Completed downloads count for 24 hours after finishing, even if deleted. Unfinished transfers reserve a slot until they finish, fail or are canceled. The remaining Free allowance appears near the download controls.
- Bulk is the expansion, not the listing. A free account can open a playlist or channel and download any single entry from it: each of those is an ordinary extraction. Taking the whole list at once is what needs a subscription.
- Devices per UID is why a second machine can report a device limit rather than an invalid UID. Open Account → Manage license to see what is connected, and read Troubleshooting before switching.
- Advanced controls stay visible in the app rather than being hidden, so the setting you read about in a guide is where the guide says it is, whether or not your account can use it yet.
- Nothing is taken away when a trial ends. Existing downloads, the Library, History and saved settings all survive; the account simply returns to the free limits.
Changing plan
Buy or extend from Pricing, or open Account → Manage license in the app. Payment attaches to the UID, so a license follows the account rather than the machine, and any device that verifies with that UID picks it up.