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# Rally in a web browser

> Use the lightweight browser version to join conversations someone shared with you, or to start an Organization.

Rally has a lightweight version that runs in an ordinary web browser, at
**app.rallywith.ai**. It is made for one job: working together in conversations
someone has shared with you. A client you invited into a single Thread, a
contractor helping with one Breakout, or a teammate on a computer without the
Mac app can all open the browser version and join in, with nothing to install.

It is the light option on purpose, and a few things stay on the Mac (see [the
conversation itself](#the-conversation-itself)). You can start an Organization
there, though. The conversations are the same ones everyone else sees.

[Sharing with people outside your Organization](https://rallywith.ai/help/spaces-and-breakouts/sharing-with-guests.md)
covers the other side of this: how you invite someone, and how you take that
access back.

## Opening something shared with you

When someone shares a conversation with you, you get an email with a link.

1. Click the link. The browser version asks you to sign in.
2. Sign in with the email address the invitation was sent to (see the next
   section).
3. The shared conversation opens. There is nothing to accept: signing in with
   that address is all it takes.

- Signing in with a different address opens nothing. The share belongs to the
  address it was sent to, so a forwarded email is no use to anyone else.
- If the invitation has been withdrawn or has expired, signing in shows no new
  conversation. Ask the person who sent it for a new one.
- If you already use Rally with that address, the shared conversation is
  already in your list. You get the email so you know it is there.

> [!NOTE]
> An invitation to a shared conversation is different from an invitation to
> join an Organization. The Organization invitation, at rallywith.ai/invite,
> opens the Mac app instead (see [Create or join an
> Organization](https://rallywith.ai/help/getting-started/create-or-join-an-organization.md)).

## Signing in

The browser version signs you in with Google or with your email address, no
password needed. Click **Continue with Google** to use your Google account. To
use email instead:

1. Click **Continue with email**, type your email address and click **Email me a
   sign-in link**.
2. The page changes to **Check your email**. Rally sends you an email titled
   **Sign in to Rally**, containing a code and a link.
3. Either type the code into the **Sign-in code** box and click **Continue**, or
   open the link in the email and click **Continue** on the **Confirm your
   sign-in** page.

The code and the link each work for one sign-in only. If the email does not
arrive, or you typed the wrong address, click **Use another email or request a
new code** to start again.

Once you are signed in you see **Your organizations**, a list of the
Organizations you belong to.

## Starting an Organization

If you do not belong to an Organization yet, ask a teammate to share a Thread
or Breakout with you, or start your own: **Your organizations** offers **Create
an organization**. Click it, type a name and click **Create organization**. The new
Organization opens and walks you through the same setup as the Mac app:
how you look to your team, then inviting teammates. Click **Back** to
return without creating one.

### Staying signed in

Your sign-in works across all your tabs and renews itself while you use Rally.
If you leave it alone for a long time you will be asked to sign in again.
**Sign out** is on the first page and in the account menu, and signing out in
one tab signs you out in every other tab too, which is what you want on a
shared computer. [Signing in, signing out and Lockdown
mode](https://rallywith.ai/help/privacy-and-security/signing-in-and-out.md) has the details.

## Finding your way around

If you have used the Mac app, the layout will look familiar: the **Threads**,
**Channels** and **Activity** buttons down the left edge with the account menu
at the bottom, the list beside them, and the conversation with its title pill.
[A tour of the window](https://rallywith.ai/help/getting-started/a-tour-of-the-window.md) walks
through it. The difference is that you only see what has been shared with you.

- **Threads** lists the conversations shared with you. A guest with one shared
  conversation sees little more than that conversation, which is the point.
- **Channels** lists the Channels those conversations sit in. Opening one shows
  its feed with only the Threads you can open, and no box for starting a new
  one.
- Threads open beside their Channel, and Breakouts beside their Thread, as on
  the Mac. See
  [Breakouts](https://rallywith.ai/help/spaces-and-breakouts/breakouts.md#a-breakout-beside-its-thread).
- The account menu has **Switch organization** and **Sign out**.
- On a computer, a **Download the Mac app** button sits above the account menu. The Mac app is for Macs with Apple silicon. Phones and tablets do not show it.
- You can rename a Thread or Breakout, and archive a Breakout, from its title
  pill menu. An archived Breakout shows **Restore breakout**. An archived Thread has to be
  restored before its conversations can reopen.

The browser version needs a reasonably wide window. If it is too narrow, Rally
asks you to **Make this window wider**.

Drafts you are typing survive switching to another tab and back.

## The conversation itself

The conversation works as it does on the Mac: live messages, attachments,
pictures in the lightbox, artifacts, the people in the conversation, its
resources, and the Sidekicks attached to it. Everything in [Working in a
Thread](https://rallywith.ai/help/working-in-a-channel.md) applies, with a few exceptions:

- Live sites do not preview inside the page. You see **Preview unavailable
  here** and a way to open the site in your browser instead.
- **Open in a new window** opens an ordinary browser tab or window, and
  artifacts open in a new tab.
- There is no built-in browser panel beside the conversation. Links open in new
  tabs.
- There are no buttons to save a reply as an image or PDF.
- Importing from Claude or ChatGPT is not available.
- Window positions are not remembered.

## Sharing from the browser

To bring someone else into the conversation you are in, click its name in the
title pill, choose **People**, then **Change**, and use **Share by email**. Type
one or more email addresses, separated by spaces, commas or semicolons, and
send. Each person gets an invitation like the one you received.

- The dialog only takes email addresses. There is no choice of access level.
- People who have not signed in yet are listed under the form as **Guest**, and
  you can remove them there. Someone who already uses Rally with that address
  joins straight away and appears among the participants instead.
- Sharing **Main** shares only **Main**, not the Breakouts. Sharing one Breakout
  does not reveal **Main** or the other Breakouts.
- Whether you may share at all depends on your role in the Organization; see
  [Who can see what](https://rallywith.ai/help/spaces-and-breakouts/who-can-see-what.md).

Next, back at the Mac: [Settings, shortcuts and making Rally
yours](https://rallywith.ai/help/settings-and-shortcuts.md).