How reforging works.
Life changes shape. Your Knife should too. Here's exactly what happens when you bring it back — and what it costs, which is usually nothing.
1. Bring the file
On the Forge's first page, choose Bring your Knife back and pick your knife file from wherever you keep it — desktop, USB stick, the e-mail you sent to yourself. That's the whole first step.
2. Read here, never uploaded
The Forge opens your Knife inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded; there is no server to upload to. Your entries are read on your machine and nowhere else. If you close the tab mid-reforge, no trace is left behind.
3. Change the shape
Add Blades and Tools, remove what life retired. Remove something and its entries stay out of the new Knife; the old file keeps them, exactly as they were. Nothing is destroyed to make room for something else.
4. Take it home
A new file, the same knife — it keeps its forge-mark — with every memory carried over. The old file stays untouched: a backup by birthright. Keep it, archive it, or delete it when you're sure. Either way, we never had a copy.
Reforging keeps not just the memories but the years. The wear lives inside the file, so old blades arrive at the new knife already worn where your hand fell on them; new blades arrive factory-bright, waiting their turn; the hallmark keeps counting the days without missing a beat. Reground is not replaced; the years survive the anvil.
This is the Patina — the per-blade wear that lives inside every Knife and survives every reforge. Read more about software that ages with you.
5. What it costs
Nothing, within your weight, forever. Only a knife that outgrows its tier pays for the bigger one — and only the difference. Your Paddle receipt is your proof of purchase; no account needed.
The principle is plain: an upgrade always costs exactly the difference between what you paid and the size you move to — nothing more, nothing hidden. During the founding period the list prices and the founding prices sit side by side, so the arithmetic is done against what you actually paid. A free Taster upgrading is a first forging: you simply pay the price of the size it becomes. Same 30-day guarantee, either way. Work out an upgrade →
Prices show in your own currency at the till, with VAT included — Paddle handles the conversion at checkout.
6. The honest footnote
Knife formats carry a version number and we commit to reading every version we have ever shipped. If a reforge ever misbehaves, e-mail us the file at hello@offline.ltd: we reforge it by hand, free, within a day. Knife follows Life, never the other way around.
Reforging is free within your tier, for as long as you own the knife. Bring it back as often as your life changes shape. Only a knife that grows out of its tier pays for the bigger one — and only the difference between the two.
Twan Janssen & Petur van Sluis
Meanwhile VOF — trading as Offline.Ltd
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