How to Buy Outlook 2024 Standalone: Price, Mac and Windows

Outlook is the one Office app people most often want on its own, and the one Microsoft makes hardest to buy that way. Search for it and you are steered to Microsoft 365, or to Office Home and Business, which bundles four apps you may not want.

A standalone perpetual Outlook license does exist. This guide covers what it costs, how it works on a Mac, and when buying it alone beats buying the suite. Prices were checked against our live catalog on 1 October 2026.

Can You Buy Outlook on Its Own?

Yes. Outlook 2024 is $59.99 as a one-time purchase at Indigo Software, for one PC or one Mac. Microsoft lists the standalone app at $179.99. There is no subscription, no renewal date and no expiry.

It is the full desktop Outlook client, not the free web version and not the lightweight Mail app. You get mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, rules, categories and offline access to a local copy of your mailbox.

Outlook 2024 Pricing Against the Alternatives

Option	What you get	Cost	Stock
Outlook 2024 standalone	Outlook only, 1 PC or Mac	$59.99 once	In stock
Office 2024 Home	Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote. No Outlook	$178.99 once	In stock
Office 2024 Home plus Outlook 2024	All five apps, two license keys	$238.98 once	In stock
Office 2024 Home and Business	All five apps, one license key	$239.99 once	Out of stock
Microsoft 365 Personal	Everything, plus Copilot and 1 TB storage	$99.99 per year	n/a

Two things are worth pulling out of that table. First, standalone Outlook at $59.99 is cheaper than eight months of a Microsoft 365 subscription, and it never stops working. Second, Office 2024 Home and Business is currently out of stock with no confirmed restock date, so if you want all five apps today the Home plus Outlook pair is the route that is actually available, and it costs $1.01 less.

Our comparison of Office 2024 Home against Home and Business works through that substitution in detail, including the discount code that brings the pair down further.

Outlook on a Mac: What You Can and Cannot Get

This is where most of the confusion sits, so it is worth being precise. There are three different things called Outlook on a Mac, and only one of them is a perpetual license you buy.

1. Outlook 2024 for Mac, a perpetual license

This is what we sell at $59.99. It installs on one Mac, it is yours permanently, and it is the full classic desktop client. The requirement is macOS 13 Ventura or later. Check yours under the Apple menu, then About This Mac.

2. The free Outlook for Mac

Microsoft made a free tier of Outlook for Mac available for personal email accounts. It works, and for a single Gmail or iCloud address it may be all you need. What it does not do is handle an Exchange or Microsoft 365 work mailbox properly, and it carries advertising in some configurations. It is not a substitute for a licensed client in a business.

3. Outlook on the web

Free in any browser with a Microsoft account. No installation, no license, and no offline access. Fine as a backup, frustrating as a daily driver if you live in your calendar.

If you have already bought and just want to get it working, our beginner’s guide to the new Outlook for Mac walks through first-run setup, and the guide to the new Outlook on Windows covers the equivalent on a PC.

Older Macs

If your Mac cannot reach macOS 13, Outlook 2024 will not install. Office Home and Business 2021 for Mac at $124.99 runs on earlier macOS releases and includes Outlook, but it reaches end of support on 13 October 2026. Our note on Office 2021 end of support explains why that makes it a short-term answer rather than a purchase to plan around.

Classic Outlook or New Outlook?

Microsoft is moving everyone toward a rebuilt Outlook, and the two versions are not equivalent yet. This matters before you buy.

	Classic Outlook	New Outlook
Included with a perpetual license	Yes	Yes, both ship
Full VBA and macro support	Yes	No
COM add-ins	Yes	Limited
PST file support	Yes	Limited
Offline access	Yes	Yes
Shared and delegated mailboxes	Yes	Improving, still gaps

If you depend on macros, COM add-ins or PST archives, stay on classic. A perpetual Outlook 2024 license includes both and lets you move between them with a toggle in the top corner, so buying it does not force the decision on you.

When Standalone Outlook Is the Right Buy

Buy Outlook alone if

• You already have Word and Excel from an earlier Office version and only need to add email.
• You run a business email account and want mail, calendar and contacts in one desktop app rather than a browser tab.
• You already bought Office 2024 Home and then discovered it has no Outlook. This is the most common reason people land here.
• You work offline regularly and need a full local copy of your mailbox.
• You manage several mailboxes at once, such as a personal address and a shared info@ address.

Buy the suite instead if

• You need three or more Office apps. At that point Office 2024 Home plus Outlook at $238.98 beats buying four apps individually at $299.96.
• You are setting up a new machine from scratch with nothing installed.

Take the subscription instead if

• You specifically want Copilot, which no perpetual license includes.
• You need the same mailbox client on a phone, a laptop and a desktop under one license.
• You want the 1 TB of OneDrive storage bundled in.

What a Standalone License Does Not Include

Worth stating plainly, because these are the things buyers assume are included.

Not included	Detail
An email account	Outlook is a client, not a mailbox. You still need email from a provider, whether that is Gmail, iCloud, your host or Microsoft 365.
Exchange Server	Connecting to a company Exchange server needs that server licensed separately.
Copilot	Subscription only. No perpetual Office license includes it.
Cloud storage	No OneDrive allocation.
New features	Security and stability updates only. The feature set is locked at the 2024 release.
More than one device	One license, one PC or one Mac.

On that first row: if you need to run your own mail server rather than use a provider, that is a different purchase entirely. Our guide to Microsoft Exchange Server for businesses covers what that involves.

After You Buy

Delivery is by email, normally within minutes, with the genuine Microsoft activation key, the official download link and written instructions.

1. Sign in to or create a Microsoft account.
2. Redeem the product key against that account.
3. Download the installer from the official Microsoft page in your email.
4. Run it and sign in to activate.
5. Add your email account in Outlook. Most providers are detected from the address alone.

Keep the key somewhere you will find it again. If you have lost a key from a previous purchase, our guide on recovering a lost Microsoft product key covers the five places it is usually still retrievable.

Buying Outlook from Indigo Software

Indigo Software has sold genuine Microsoft licenses since 2016. We are a veteran-owned, family-run business in The Woodlands, Texas, with more than 100,000 customers and a 4.9 out of 5 rating across over 500 Trustpilot reviews.

Every license is perpetual and genuine, delivered instantly by email, with US-based support included at no extra cost for the life of the license. If you are not sure whether you need Outlook alone or the suite, tell us what you already have installed and we will tell you which is cheaper. Message our team or browse the full Microsoft software catalog.

Buying from a reseller for the first time? Our seven checks on whether it is safe to buy Microsoft Office from a third-party reseller sets out what separates a real seller from a key that stops working in three weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

Need other apps on their own too? Our guide on buying Excel without Microsoft 365 lists prices for every standalone Office app and shows the point where the suite becomes cheaper, and Microsoft 365 against Office 2024 compares paying once with paying every year.