Franz 6 free plan and grandfathered accounts

Franz 6 uses the same free-plan limits for everyone. If your account was created years ago and was previously grandfathered into older free-plan terms, that exception does not carry forward into Franz 6.

This does not mean Franz 5 is being removed from your account. Franz 5 is still distributed, still works, and still receives service recipe updates. When a recipe is updated for Franz 6, the same update flows to Franz 5.

Franz 6 is also not installed through the Franz 5 auto-updater. Moving from Franz 5 to Franz 6 is an active choice. Your account, data, and settings are not deleted when you move.

The main trade-off is the browser engine. Franz 5 uses an older Chromium engine that no longer receives security patches or newer web platform features. Over time, some services may stop loading in Franz 5 when they require a more modern browser engine.

Your options are:

• Stay on Franz 5 for now, with the understanding that the browser engine is aging.
• Use Franz 6 on the free plan, with the current free-plan limits.
• Upgrade to a paid Franz 6 plan if you need more than the free tier includes.

For the full background on why the grandfathered exception ends with Franz 6, read Franz 6, and the end of an exception.