No Pay-to-Play
A donation is never required for a project or community idea to receive Bow's attention or consideration.
✦ 100% OPTIONAL SUPPORT
Help keep Bow's projects free for everyone.
A lot of people have asked for a way to show some love and support for Bow's projects. Donations are available for anyone who wants to help—but they are never required.
No membership. No paid tier. No priority purchase. Just optional support if you love what Bow is building.
Why donations are available
Free projects still have real costs.
Bow's goal is to keep projects completely free to use, with no required memberships, subscriptions, or payment just to access the work.
Bow personally covers the costs that come with creating and maintaining these projects. As more community ideas are suggested and more projects are built, those costs can grow.
Donations can help with
Hosting and serversWeb hosting, storage, server-side services, and other infrastructure.
App & extension store releasesDeveloper, publishing, and release costs when a project reaches a store.
Development timeResearching, designing, building, testing, fixing, updating, and maintaining free projects.
Domains, APIs & project servicesDomains, integrations, testing services, and other project-related costs when needed.
Future community ideasHelping Bow continue bringing more suggestions from the community to life.
Every idea gets the same attention
A donation does not buy priority.
Please only donate because you enjoy Bow's projects and want to support the work—not because you believe donating will move a project to the next stage of development.
No Priority Purchase
Donating does not move an idea ahead of another project, guarantee development, or buy special treatment.
Same Magical Attention
Every project Bow attempts receives the same magical attention—and the same amount of glitter—as every other project.
One-person project studio
All of Bow's projects are done by one person.
From the first concept and research to design, development, testing, hosting, updates, and maintenance, Bow handles the projects independently through Potter Service.
Donations help offset some of those costs so Bow can keep experimenting with community ideas while continuing to make projects available for free whenever possible.
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Want to support the projects?
Thank you for supporting Bow.
If MagicInk or another Bow project has helped you, entertained you, or you simply want to help make future free projects possible, you can make an optional donation through PayPal.
Donate with PayPalPlease donate only if you genuinely want to support Bow's free projects and are comfortable doing so.
Donations are never required.
MagicInk and Bow's other free projects are not locked behind donations. Support helps with project expenses; it does not purchase features, memberships, development priority, special treatment, or guaranteed completion of a project.
More from Bow
See what else Bow is building.
Browse Bow's other free tools, websites, experiments, fan projects, and community-inspired ideas through Potter Service.