---
title: "Your account and cloud computers"
description: "What works without an account, your cloud computers and cloud time, and the account sheet on your phone."
works_on: [phone]
---

# Your account and cloud computers

See your cloud computers, wake one when you need it, put it to sleep when
you don't, and keep track of your cloud time.

**Works on:** the phone app, signed in. On the desktop, these controls need
you signed in, and signing in on the desktop isn't available yet; see
[Sign in](sign-in.md). The web: not available yet.

![Alex's computer asleep in the side panel, with "You've used this month's cloud time." and Close beside Wake](images/account-cloud-time.png)

## Use Codewhale without signing in

Everything on your own computer works without an account: your folders,
conversations, your own model keys or a local model, plugins, connectors and
skills. Nothing asks you to sign in until you press something that only works
with one, and then it asks right there, beside what you pressed.

## See your cloud computers

Signed in on the desktop, the side panel's **Environment** lists your cloud
computers below this computer, and **Settings › Account** shows the same list
under **Cloud computers**. Each one says how it is:

| Word | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| Awake | It's on and ready for work. |
| Asleep | It's resting until you wake it. |
| Waking up | You asked it to wake, and it's starting. |
| Blocked | It couldn't start. |
| Reconnecting | Codewhale can't reach your account right now. It keeps trying, and your work on this computer carries on. |

With none yet, it says "No cloud computers yet".

## Wake a computer

A sleeping computer wakes only when you ask. Press **Wake** on its row, or
right-click the row and choose **Wake** (W). It reads **Waking up**, then
**Awake**.

If it doesn't wake, Codewhale says "codewhale-dev didn't wake up." with **Try
again**.

## Put a computer to sleep

Right-click the computer's row (or press its **⋯** button, or Shift+F10 on
the row) and choose **Put to sleep** (S). The same menu has **Copy name** (C).

## When your cloud time is used up

If you've used this month's cloud time, pressing **Wake** shows "You've used
this month's cloud time." beside the button, and the computer stays asleep.
Press **Close** or Esc. Your work on this computer isn't affected.

On the phone, the same words show when you try to start a conversation on a
cloud computer.

## If you don't have cloud computers yet

Cloud computers are invite-only right now. **Settings › Account** says
"Cloud computers are invite-only right now." When the waitlist is open, press
**Join the waitlist**; the row then reads "You're on the waitlist." When it
isn't open, there's nothing to press.

## Sign out on the desktop

Open **Settings › Account** and press **Sign out**, or press your name at the
bottom of the sidebar and choose **Sign out**. The `/logout` command does the
same.

The account row says: "Your conversations, folders and model keys stay on
this computer." Signing out only signs you out of your account; the model you
use doesn't change. If your sign-in runs out or the network drops, nothing
pops up, and the work on this computer keeps going.

## On your phone

Press your initials at the top of the conversation list to open your account:

- Your name and email.
- **Organization**: your organization's name and your role, or "You're not in
  an organization."
- **Membership**: Not available yet.
- **Sign out**. "Your conversations stay in your account. Signing out leaves
  nothing on this phone."

Start a conversation on a cloud computer from **New session**: see
[Codewhale on your phone](phone.md#start-a-conversation-on-a-cloud-computer).
Waking a computer or putting it to sleep from the phone is not available yet.

## On the web

Not available yet.

## Not available yet

- **Signing in on the desktop.** **Settings › Account › Sign in** says "Not
  available yet".
- **Creating a cloud computer** in the app.
- **Membership** on the phone.

## Related

- [Sign in](sign-in.md)
- [Choose where the work runs](environments.md)
- [Settings](settings.md)
- [Troubleshooting](troubleshooting.md)

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