Sign in the desktop app

Don't have the app yet? Install it first.

The Upstratus desktop companion app signs in to your account without ever asking for your password. It shows a short code; you approve that code in your browser, where you are already signed in.

What an installed app can do

An app you approve can read your projects and data. It cannot change anything, and it cannot invite people or sign other apps in. Your password is never given to the app.

Approve an app

1. In the desktop app, choose Sign in. It shows a code such as BCDF-GHJK and opens your browser.
2. In the browser, upstratus asks you to sign in if you are not. Then it shows Sign in to the app's name, and the code. If the page does not open on its own, go to /device/ and type the code. Capitals, spaces and the dash do not matter.
3. Check that the app named on the page is the one you just opened, then choose Approve. The page says the app is signed in, and the app finishes signing in on its own within a few seconds.

Codes expire after ten minutes. If yours has, choose Sign in in the app again.

Refuse an app

If you did not ask an app to sign in, choose Deny. Nothing is shared with it and its next check is told that access was denied. Do not approve a code someone else read out to you.

Sign an app out

Open Account. Apps signed in as you lists every approved app. Choose Revoke beside one, then confirm with Sign out and the app's name. Its access stops at once, and the app locks itself the next time it checks. Signing in again needs a new approval.

The app keeps working with its last sign-in while your computer is offline, because recording and flashing are done locally. Only a revoked sign-in locks it.