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Cloud · Optional

A cloud account links your Mac app — it does not host your code.

Rig runs projects on your machine. The free cloud account is only there so settings can follow you from one Mac to another, and so we know which devices belong to you.

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Exactly what it does

Two layers: your Mac, and a small cloud identity.

Think of the cloud account as a keychain for Rig settings — not a remote workspace.

Stays on your Mac

Never uploaded

  • Project folders and source code
  • Absolute paths on disk
  • Running processes, logs and terminals
  • Local databases and .env files
  • Git history and GitHub tokens stored in Keychain

If you never sign in, Rig still works fully offline for local projects.

Syncs when you choose

Cloud account stores

  • App preferences (theme, resume settings, and similar)
  • Project groups / organisation labels
  • Presets you save in Rig
  • Which Macs are linked as devices
  • Account email and sign-in session

Sync is pull + push from Settings → Sync now. Nothing streams continuously in the background today.

How it connects to local

Sign in on the Mac. Sync when you want.

  1. 01
    Create the account here

    You get an email and password for Rig cloud. That identity lives at api.userig.app — separate from your code.

  2. 02
    Open Rig on your Mac

    Go to Settings → Rig cloud account. Sign in with the same email. The app stores the session encrypted in Keychain and registers this machine as a device.

  3. 03
    Sync settings

    Click Sync now. Rig pulls preferences, groups and presets from the cloud, then pushes anything newer from this Mac. Your project list keeps pointing at local folders — those paths are not rewritten from another machine.

  4. 04
    Another Mac? Same account

    Install Rig, sign in, Sync now. You get the same prefs and groups. You still choose or open project folders on that Mac — because the code never left the first disk.

Be clear

What a cloud account is not

  • Not remote hosting for your apps
  • Not a substitute for Git or GitHub
  • Not required to run Rig day to day
  • Not a place we browse your repositories