🦀 JetBrains Trial Reset

Ultra-fast trial period reset tool for JetBrains IDEs

Lightweight • Blazingly Fast • Safe • Open Source

Features • Installation • Usage • Documentation

🎯 What is this?

A modern, blazingly fast CLI tool written in Rust that helps you manage JetBrains IDE trial periods on Linux. With automatic backups, multi-interface support, and desktop integration.

jb-reset reset --all  # Reset all trials in <200ms

⚡ Performance Metrics

Operation	Time	Memory
Startup	< 100ms	< 5MB
Scan (10 products)	< 50ms	< 8MB
Reset per product	< 200ms	< 10MB

✨ Features

🚀 Core Features

🔍 Auto-detect all installed JetBrains products
🔄 One-command reset with automatic backup
💾 Safe operations with rollback support
🎯 Selective or batch reset
📦 Single binary (~3-5MB, no dependencies)

🎨 User Experience

📊 Beautiful CLI with colored output
🚀 Rofi/dmenu integration
🔔 Desktop notifications
💻 Interactive TUI menu
🌐 JSON output for scripting

🧰 Supported Products

IDE	Supported	IDE	Supported
IntelliJ IDEA	✅	PyCharm	✅
WebStorm	✅	PhpStorm	✅
CLion	✅	GoLand	✅
Rider	✅	DataGrip	✅
RubyMine	✅	RustRover	✅
Android Studio	✅	Fleet	✅

📦 Installation

Quick Install (Recommended)

git clone https://github.com/il1v3y/jetbrains-trial-reset.git
cd jetbrains-trial-reset
sudo ./scripts/install.sh

Manual Build

# Install Rust if needed curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh Build from source cargo build --release Install

sudo cp target/release/jb-reset /usr/local/bin/

Package Managers

# Coming soon # Arch AUR yay -S jetbrains-trial-reset Homebrew

brew install jetbrains-trial-reset

🚀 Usage

Basic Commands

# List all installed products jb-reset list Reset all trials jb-reset reset --all Reset specific product jb-reset reset intellij Preview changes (dry-run)

jb-reset reset --all --dry-run

Advanced Usage

# JSON output for scripting jb-reset list --json Interactive TUI menu jb-reset-gui Rofi launcher

jb-reset-rofi

Example Output

$ jb-reset list

Installed JetBrains Products: ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 🧠 IntelliJ IDEA (2025.2) │ Active (6 days remaining) 🐍 PyCharm (2024.3) │ Active (15 days remaining) 🌐 WebStorm (2024.2) │ Expired ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

🏗️ Tech Stack

Built with:

Rust - Systems programming language
Clap - Command-line argument parser
Serde - Serialization framework
Roxmltree - XML parser
Colored - Terminal colors
Notify-rust - Desktop notifications

📚 Documentation

Usage Guide - Detailed usage examples
Commands Reference - All available commands
Installation Guide - Installation instructions

🔒 How It Works

Click to expand

Reset Process

Scan - Detect installed products in ~/.config/JetBrains/
Backup - Create timestamped backup in ~/.jetbrains-trial-backups/
Clean XML - Remove evlsprt* and trial.state* keys from other.xml
Remove Dirs - Delete eval directories and cache
Notify - Send desktop notification

Safety Features

✅ Automatic backup before any changes
✅ Dry-run mode to preview changes
✅ No root/sudo required
✅ Only modifies user-owned files
✅ Detailed logs of all operations
✅ Rollback support

🎨 Multiple Interfaces

💻 CLI

Direct command-line interface

jb-reset list

🎯 TUI

Interactive terminal menu

jb-reset-gui

🚀 Rofi

Graphical launcher

jb-reset-rofi

⚠️ Legal & Ethical Notice

Educational Purpose Only

This tool is provided for educational and research purposes only.

✅ Use only for legitimate testing and evaluation
✅ Respect software licensing terms and conditions
✅ Purchase a license if you use the software professionally
❌ The authors are not responsible for misuse

💡 Support JetBrains

JetBrains offers free licenses for:

🎓 Students (free for educational use)
🌟 Open Source projects (free for qualifying projects)
🏢 Community Editions (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm)

Support developers by purchasing legitimate licenses: jetbrains.com/store

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

🍴 Fork the repository
🌱 Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
💾 Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
📤 Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
🔃 Open a Pull Request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

MIT License - Copyright (c) 2025 il1v3y

👨‍💻 Author

il1v3y

Security Researcher • Red Team Operator • Python/PHP/Rust Developer

🙏 Acknowledgments

💙 JetBrains for creating amazing IDEs
🦀 Rust Community for excellent tooling and support
🖥️ Linux Community for inspiration and feedback

⭐ If you find this project useful, please consider giving it a star!

Made with ❤️ and Rust

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