Rally in a web browser

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). You can start an Organization there, though. The conversations are the same ones everyone else sees.

Sharing with people outside your Organization 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• If the invitation has been withdrawn or has expired, signing in shows no new conversation.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.

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 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 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.
• 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 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.

Next, back at the Mac: Settings, shortcuts and making Rally yours.