SerialSticker: Free Serial Number Keeper

We recently told you about LicenseKeeper, a $20 application designed to keep a recording of your shareware serial numbers. Though others may disagree, I thought that $20 was rather steep for an application whose primary functionality could be adequately (if not beautifully) contained within a plain-text note. However, today I ran across SerialSticker from MacXeagle, a freeware serial number keeper with a very slick, Mac-like user interface. You just add your applications by selecting from from the Applications folder and adding in the appropriate information to each Application's record fields. It doesn't have any of the snazzy email scanning features of LicenseKeeper, but nonetheless I'm willing to cut and paste. SerialSticker will also allow you to export or synchronize the database to a flash drive.

This brings us, however, to the main downside of SerialSticker. It seems to be designed with the assumption that all the software serial numbers you'll want to keep are for applications which have a free-standing application icon. However, I have purchased applications (e.g. OpenMenuX) which appear in the System Preferences and not the Applications folder, and I have not found a way to add those applications to the database. Fortunately, the developer seems to be on the ball, and quickly responded to an email that such a feature would be added in the next version.

SerialSticker is a free download from MacXeagle.

Update: the Developer writes in to say: "Note that if you want to add a PrefPane Application, just search it in the ~/Library/PreferencePanes/ folder."

[Via FreeMacWare]