What's New in PhishClean 1.2.0 - Subscribe Without an Account
This release is about what happens after the 15-day trial. You can now subscribe in two clicks with no account, you get told once when the trial ends instead of finding out by accident, and the two checks that never expire are spelled out plainly.
Version 1.2.0 changes nothing about detection. Every one of the 17 checks still runs locally, in your browser, and nothing about the pages you visit leaves your device. What changed is the part of the product that had been getting in its own way: the moment a trial ends.
Subscribe without creating an account
Until now, choosing a plan at the end of the trial sent you to a signup form first. That was backwards. PhishClean's licence is tied to the install itself, so there was never a technical reason to ask for an email before taking a payment. In 1.2.0 the Upgrade button in the popup and the checkout card on the settings page open the billing page directly.
An account is still available, and still optional. Its only job is to carry your plan to a second browser or survive a reinstall. If you pay first and add an account later, the plan follows you - a bug where that order could briefly show a paid install as "Free" is fixed in this release.
What an account is for
- Not required to pay: checkout is keyed to the install, not to an email.
- Restores your plan elsewhere: sign in on another browser and the subscription comes with you.
- Stores two things: your email, and whether your plan is trial or paid. Nothing about your browsing.
A single heads-up when the trial ends
PhishClean is meant to be invisible until it has something to say, which meant the end of the trial was invisible too. The only signs were a small badge on the toolbar icon and a notice inside the popup - and if the extension has been quietly doing its job, you have had no reason to open the popup. People were reaching the end of the trial without ever seeing what came next.
Now, on the day the trial ends, PhishClean opens its settings page once. It shows what is still running, what is paused, and how to restore it. It does not ask again.
The heads-up fires exactly once per install. There is no drip, no countdown, and no repeat prompt - one page, on the day it matters.
Two checks, free forever
After the trial, two checks keep running with no plan and no account, for as long as the extension is installed:
- Link safety on hover. Every link you hover shows where it really goes, with lookalike and mismatched destinations flagged before you click.
- Password-field destination check. If a login form would send your password to a domain other than the one you are on, you are warned before you submit.
The other fifteen - token and secret leak detection, hidden iframe detection, HTTPS downgrade alerts, homograph and lookalike domains, third-party auth header monitoring and the rest - are part of the paid plan. The settings page now lists both groups side by side so there is no guessing about what you have.
Why this order
A security tool that only earns its keep after you have handed over an email address has the incentive wrong. The trial should prove the product; the payment should be the easiest possible step afterwards; the account should be a convenience you opt into. 1.2.0 puts those three in that order.
Try all 17 checks for 15 days
No account needed to start, and none needed to keep going. Install, browse, and decide at the end.
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