Signing in to livedesign is entirely optional. The canvas works without an account, so there is never a sign-in wall in front of the editor. An account simply adds something useful on top: it keeps your designs with you across browsers and devices instead of being tied to one guest identity, unlocks teams, and lets you create API tokens to call the API from your own scripts.
Creating an account
Your livedesign account is a liveworkspace account: one sign-in for livedesign, livediagram and the other liveworkspace apps. Choosing Sign in at the top right of the editor or the Explorer (or opening /sign-in or /get-started) takes you to the liveworkspace sign-in page at liveworkspace.app. Enter your email and we send you a 6-digit code; type it in and you are back in livedesign, signed in. There is no password, and there is no separate sign-up step: the first time you sign in with an email, that is your account made.
If you are already signed in to another liveworkspace app in the same browser, signing in to livedesign takes you straight back with no code to type.
Accounts are free, with no paid tier and nothing to upgrade. After signing in from the sign-in page you land on the Explorer to see your designs; after signing up you land on the new-design flow to start building. If you used the Sign in link in the editor or the Explorer, you go back to where you were instead.
Once you are signed in, your initial and name replace the Sign in link. Click it for the account menu: Account opens the Account category of Settings, where your name, email, Trash and Delete Account live, and Sign out signs you out of livedesign and returns you to the home page. Settings shows the name and email of your account; it does not edit them.
Delete Account removes everything you have in livedesign, closes your liveworkspace account and signs you out. Closing it signs you out of the other liveworkspace apps too, and you can no longer sign in to them with it.
When sign-in is not available
Sign-in is optional: the editor works exactly the same as a guest. If sign-in is failing on the hosted site, see Cannot Sign In.
Your guest designs come with you
The best part of signing up is that you keep the work you have already done. When you create an account, everything you built as a guest comes with it, so nothing is lost.
Before you sign in, new designs start in This Browser, saved only in this browser. When you sign in, a Move Designs in This Browser to Your Account? dialog lists every one of them: every one is ticked, so press Move to bring them all across, or untick any you would rather keep in this browser. Not Now leaves them in this browser, and we only ask again when there are more. If one fails to move, it stays in this browser and a follow-up dialog names it. You can also move one any time with Sync Design in the Explorer or the Share dialog. Designs in This Browser belong to the browser, not to an account, so after you sign out they are offered to whoever signs in next on it.
Anything you already put on the server as a guest (a design you shared, synced, or saved to livedesign) moves automatically. The migration moves your guest content, including those designs, folders, your Shared With Me list, favourites, images and saved preferences (unless your account already has its own), from your per-browser guest id over to your new account. From then on, that content is owned by your account and follows you to any browser or device where you sign in.
It happens as you sign in, in a browser that holds guest work, and is safe to repeat: a second attempt simply moves nothing. Once you are signed in, the Explorer's sign-in nudge disappears.
Only the guest id in this browser moves. Guest designs you made in a different browser or on another device belong to that browser's guest id: open livedesign there and sign in with the same account to bring them across too. Designs in This Browser stay in their browser until you move them, because they were never on the server.
Build freely as a guest, then sign up when you want your designs everywhere. The hand-off is automatic, so there is no manual import to do.
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