How ClickTray is funded

ClickTray is free — no paid tier, no ads. It is funded by the bundled Massive SDK, which shares a slice of your idle bandwidth when it can.

"When it can" is not a hedge. Only one Clearware tray app shares at a time, so if another one is already sharing on this PC, ClickTray will not.

The part worth reading twice

Sharing is what pays for the utilities, so they stop with it. Turn the switch off and the four tools — and the Runs screen — are disabled until you turn it back on. The app says exactly that, on the same row as the switch and in place of each panel.

The gate is admission control: it refuses to start new work. A session already running is neither killed nor hidden from you, and stopping it always works.

What it does and does not do

The shared bandwidth relays other parties' ordinary web traffic across your connection. It does not read your disk, your clipboard, your browsing, your keystrokes or your screen, and it is not a channel through which anything of yours leaves the machine.

To route traffic, Massive processes a limited set of device data — your IP address during active sessions, an anonymous device identifier, city-level location, device specifications and bandwidth statistics — as an independent data controller under its own privacy policy.

Turning it off

Three places, all equivalent: Settings → Share idle bandwidth, the ClickTray tray menu, or Massive's own tray icon. A stop from Massive's icon is honoured and ClickTray will not restart sharing behind you.

There is no automatic pausing on metered connections, no automatic back-off while you are using the network, and no bandwidth cap. In particular, sharing is not paused while a ClickTray session is running or while a game is in the foreground.

Uninstalling ends participation completely and removes the Massive agent — Windows' Add or remove programs, find ClickTray, Uninstall.

What usually goes wrong

The status reads Unavailable and the utilities are disabled. Check that Massive is installed and running, then use Try again, which appears under the status.

Switching sharing on failed. A message says so under the switch; there is no Try again for this one — switch it on again.

Another Clearware app is already sharing. ClickTray shows Sharing and its utilities work as normal. If that app stops sharing, ClickTray takes over automatically.