Aleka Windows-based products will run in an emulated Windows environment on a Mac, for example using the Parallels emulator, which has a 14-day free trial. Parallels adds an icon including the Windows Start Menu at the upper right of the screen, from which Microsoft Edge can be run to download applications from the Aleka Consulting web site, and from which applications can be run. Parallels may require a product key for the Windows activation, although it can be used without activation. Windows 11 Pro product keys can be purchased from a number of non-Microsoft sources (such as ProductKeys) at much lower cost than from Microsoft. A limitation of running in this mode is that external NTFS-formatted USB drives are read-only. CamTrap Pro and Caption Pro cannot work at all on data on such drives. However, FAT32 and exFAT formatted drives (including most memory sticks and SSD drives) can be written to. All Aleka applications can process data on them. Right-clicks can be emulated by a two-finger click on a trackpad as described here.