Why do we need to sign in before using the app?

Hi, everyone!

I’ve been using Postman for while and today, when the app asked for updates, I notice from now on the users need to sign in to use the app.

The question is: How do we need to sign in to use that app? What is the matter for that?
Sometimes we are working on a private project and we don’t want to have our data being collected by anyone else.

Unless the reason for that is very clear I don’t feel comfortable to use that app knowing that someone may be watching me and my projects.

Hi @moacir.costa.squadra

Welcome to the community :wave:

Creating an account enables you to sync and access cloud features. But as you mentioned, if you do not wish to sign in - you can click on “Skip signing in” which will let you use the application without an account :slight_smile:

Also below are a few resources for your references:

Be aware, if you choose to sign out, it will remove all local storage.
So if your not going to sign in, make sure you never sign in.

Hey @acheeseman :waving_hand:

Welcome to the Postman Community! :postman:

You will see this message and by warned about this before you sign out and have access to your synced again when you sign in to the platform.

The local signed out API Client is also available for you to you use:

Are there other concerns that you have here? More than happy to help.