What is a lifetime deal site?
A lifetime deal site is a launch platform where a software founder sells a one-off licence instead of a monthly subscription, usually for a limited run and usually early in the product's life. The founder gets cash and users at once; the buyer gets the software without a recurring bill, for as long as the founder keeps it running.
The sites differ in the part that matters after you pay. Each sets its own refund window, its own deadline for claiming the licence, and its own rules on stacking codes to raise the limits. Those terms belong to the site, not to the product, so they apply to every deal sold there, and they are what the table below compares.
Which lifetime deal site gives you the longest refund window?
Every figure read off the site's own terms page on the date beside it
AppSumo gives you 60 days; Earlybird gives you 30 days. Each site also sets a separate deadline for claiming the licence, counted from the day you pay, and missing that one is not covered by the refund window still being open.
| Sale site | Refund window | Claim licence within | Deals covered | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AppSumo | 60 days | 60 days | 20 | 11 September 2026 |
| DealFuel | 30 days | Not published | 0 | 18 September 2026 |
| Dealify | 30 days | 30 days | 0 | 18 September 2026 |
| DealMirror | 30 days | Not published | 0 | 18 September 2026 |
| Earlybird | 30 days | 60 days | 1 | 11 September 2026 |
| Prime Club | 30 days | Not published | 0 | 18 September 2026 |
| RocketHub | 30 days | Not published | 0 | 18 September 2026 |
| StackSocial | Not published | Not published | 0 | 18 September 2026 |
Sale sites we buy and check on
Every deal on this site was bought on one of these, and its terms are read off their own pages
AppSumo
20 of the 21 deals here
High-volume software deal marketplace. Sixty day money-back guarantee on every listing checked so far, sixty days to activate or redeem a licence, and stacking rules set per product rather than platform-wide.
- 60 day refund
- Claim within 60 days
- 2 open questions
AppSumo refund window and terms →The 20 deals we list from AppSumo →
Earlybird
1 of the 21 deals here
Low-volume curated deal platform. Thirty day money-back guarantee, half what AppSumo offers, and a separate sixty day licence activation deadline observed on the one product listed here so far.
- 30 day refund
- Claim within 60 days
- 3 open questions
Earlybird refund window and terms →The 1 deal we list from Earlybird →
Other sites selling lifetime deals
Live marketplaces we hold no deals from yet, with the terms each one publishes
DealFuel
No deals from here on the site yet
Long-running deal site for web and design tools, with a thirty day refund window set in its terms and overridden by whatever an individual deal page states.
- 30 day refund
- 2 open questions
Dealify
No deals from here on the site yet
Deal marketplace for growth and sales software. Thirty day money-back guarantee, thirty days to redeem the code, and store credit worth half the price if the vendor shuts down inside a year.
- 30 day refund
- Claim within 30 days
- 1 open question
DealMirror
No deals from here on the site yet
Deal marketplace with a paid membership tier. Thirty day refund window on a standard account and sixty days on Prime, and a published policy for what happens when a vendor closes.
- 30 day refund
- 2 open questions
Prime Club
No deals from here on the site yet
Curated deal site that lists software already earning revenue. Thirty day refund window by default, with shorter windows and non-refundable deals stated on the listing.
- 30 day refund
- 2 open questions
RocketHub
No deals from here on the site yet
Deal marketplace for SaaS and information products, advertising a thirty day refund guarantee on the front of the site.
- 30 day refund
- 2 open questions
StackSocial
No deals from here on the site yet
Large general marketplace selling software alongside hardware and courses. No single refund window: the terms state the policy differs by vendor and is set on each product page.
- No site-wide refund window published
- 2 open questions
Closed, or no longer selling lifetime deals
Still worth naming: a licence bought on one of these is between you and the vendor now
PitchGround
No longer selling lifetime deals
The domain no longer sells lifetime software deals. It now runs a paid ranking board where listings bid for position, sold under a stated no-refund policy.
- 1 open question
SaaS Mantra
No longer selling lifetime deals
The site no longer lists lifetime deals to buy. It now sells launch services to software founders and runs a growth programme.
- 1 open question
Which deals are sold on these sites?
The terms on this page belong to the shop rather than to the software, so they apply to every deal sold there. What they do not tell you is whether any particular deal is worth buying, which is a question about the plan behind it: what the cheapest tier caps, what the founder charges a month for the same plan, and how long the one-off price takes to pay for itself.