Pricing
Reading a file is free. Digging into it is Pro.
Free opens it. Pro digs into it. Every format Foretaste can read, it reads for everybody, from documents and spreadsheets to archives, media, databases and datasets, and saving to disk is free on every screen. Pro is what you do after the file is open, and it is the same set of features on all three paid plans. They differ only in how you pay.
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Free, and three ways to be Pro
Free
$0
Free for good · no account
No sign-in, no time limit, no card, and no format withheld.
- Every format on the format list
- ZIP, TAR, GZIP, 7z and RAR, including listing one without downloading it
- Searching the file names in an archive, and opening any file from inside it
- PowerPoint slides drawn, not just their text
- Reading text out of a picture, in English, with no network request
- Finding every file linked from a page
- Saving anything to disk, always
Three ways to pay for the same Pro. All 16 capabilities are on every paid plan. Nothing is held back for a longer one.
Monthly
$3
$3 a month · billed monthly
The way in. Cancel whenever you like and Pro stays on to the end of the month you paid for.
YearlyBest value
$25
about $2.08 a month · renews yearly
The same Pro, paid once a year instead of twelve times. Cancel and it runs to the end of the year you paid for.
Lifetime
$79
$79 once · no renewal
Nothing to cancel and nothing to check: a lifetime key is never re-checked with us. For people who open files like this every week.
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What Pro adds
The same list on all three paid plans. Read out of the extension's own capability table when this page was built, so it cannot describe something the software does not do.
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Filtering data in a table | Free lets you view CSV tables 200 rows at a time and navigate through pages. | Pro lets you filter rows by column, operator, and value, then export the matching subset as a new CSV. |
| Extracting patterns from files | Free opens text files and highlights search keyword matches one by one. | Pro scans entire files for patterns-emails, URLs, IPs, JSON keys, or CSV columns-and exports frequency counts to CSV. |
| Searching text inside archives | Free searches file names inside ZIP or TAR archives and previews individual files. | Pro searches text content across every file inside an archive without unpacking it, listing exact line matches. |
| Extracting embedded images | Free displays documents with embedded images rendered in place. | Pro extracts and saves all high-resolution original images from Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or PDF files into a single ZIP archive. |
| Browsing database rows | Free displays SQLite database schemas, table structures, and row counts. | Pro lets you view, search, and page through full database rows, with 1-click export to CSV or JSON. |
| Parquet dataset statistics | Free displays Parquet column names, data types, and total row count. | Pro inspects row groups, compression ratios, null counts, distinct values, and min/max ranges per column. |
| Multi-file archive management | Free lists archive contents, searches file names, and opens or saves files one by one. | Pro lets you select multiple archive entries to extract in batch, detects duplicate files, and opens deeply nested archives. |
| Sequential page slideshow | Free scans pages for linked files and lets you preview them one by one. | Pro lets you pick specific files on a page and auto-play them as a continuous, hands-free slideshow. |
| Reading giant text and log files | Free loads the first 5 MB (up to 20,000 lines) of large log or text files. | Pro expands memory capacity to read up to 50 MB (200,000 lines) of very large files. |
| Spreadsheet formula & layout inspection | Free renders Excel worksheets in a grid with basic cell values. | Pro reveals underlying formulas, preserves merged cell layouts, and opens workbooks with up to 20,000 rows. |
| Document headers, footers & outline | Free renders Word document text, tables, and page breaks on formatted pages. | Pro displays running headers, footers, and a dynamic table-of-contents outline for the entire document. |
| Comparing two files | Free opens and views individual files one at a time. | Pro opens two files side-by-side, highlighting added, removed, and modified lines with instant diff search. |
| Comparing two archives | Free lists and searches files inside a single archive. | Pro compares two archives side-by-side to show added, removed, or modified files between versions. |
| Data column profiling | Free displays raw table rows and column headers. | Pro analyzes columns to calculate null percentages, unique value counts, top frequencies, and value distributions. |
| Site rules worked out for you | Free writes a rule from two addresses you paste in Settings, and from a link you point at. | Pro reads the links on the page itself, finds the ones that differ in the same way, and offers the rule they imply. Same host only, because a rule aimed anywhere else would need a permission there. |
| Save every file on a page | Free saves the files a page links to one at a time. | Pro saves the ones you pick as a single ZIP. A file that will not download is named and skipped rather than losing you the rest. |
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And the numbers move
Six of them, and they are the same on all three paid plans. Nothing here gets smaller on Free than it was before there was a plan.
- Text read from one large file 5 MB 50 MB
- Lines drawn at once 20,000 200,000
- Entries listed in an archive 5,000 50,000
- Archives inside archives 3 deep 6 deep
- Rows read from a spreadsheet 2,000 20,000
- Database rows per page Schema only 200
The size at which the viewer stops and asks before pulling a file into memory is deliberately not on this list. That one is your own setting, it goes to 2 GB already, and moving it behind a plan would be taking something people have rather than adding something they do not.
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Opening a file is never part of Pro
No format is behind the plan. If Foretaste can read something, it reads it for everybody, and every screen offers to save the file you are looking at whatever plan you are on. That button works when you have not allowed Foretaste on the site, and when the file turns out to be something Foretaste cannot open at all.
That is a decision in the code rather than a promise here: saving goes through your browser's own download machinery and needs no site access, which is what makes it possible to leave it alone.
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How paying works
You pay on the payment provider's own pages. A receipt gives you a licence key, you paste it into Foretaste's Settings once, and Foretaste checks the signature on your machine. There is no account to make and no limit on how many computers you use it on.
A subscription is then checked with us once a day, by its licence number and nothing else: no file name, no address, nothing about what you opened. That check is how a renewal, a cancellation or a refund reaches your copy. If we are unreachable, Pro keeps working: being unable to confirm a licence is not evidence against it.
A lifetime key is never checked again after the first time. Nothing about it can change, so nothing asks.
Cancelling leaves Pro on until the end of the period you already paid for. More about keys.