The desktop app does not ask for your credentials in its own window. It opens your browser, you sign in there, and the browser hands the session back to the app.
Why it works that way
Your browser is where Google Sign-In, Apple Sign-In and your saved passkeys already live. Signing in there means the desktop app never handles your credentials, and it means the sign-in methods you already use keep working without being reimplemented inside a desktop window.
What happens, step by step
- Choose Sign In with Browser — it is the only sign-in control in the desktop window.
- Your default browser opens on the Docuslice sign-in page.
- Sign in as usual — Google, Apple, a passkey, or an email and one-time pin.
- The browser confirms and hands the sign-in straight back to the desktop app.
- The desktop app is signed in. You can close the browser tab.
If nothing arrives, the link did not get through rather than the app being asleep — see below.
The desktop app requires Pro+
The desktop app is the one part of Docuslice that is not on the free plan. Android, iOS and the browser app are all free; desktop access is included with Pro+ only.
If you sign in on desktop with a free or Pro account, the app tells you the plan is not covered rather than letting you get several steps in. From there you can:
- Upgrade from Pro to Pro+ at the difference in price
- Buy Pro+ outright — see buying Pro
- Keep working in the browser at app.docuslice.com, which is free and is the same editor
Nothing came through after signing in
- Let the browser open Docuslice. The handover asks your browser to open the desktop app, and some browsers prompt for permission before opening an external application. If you dismissed that prompt, nothing was sent.
- Check that the browser finished loading the confirmation page — it says you are signed in and can close the tab.
- Make sure the browser that opened is the one you are signed into. A different default browser signs you in somewhere the app is not looking.
- Otherwise, start again from Sign In with Browser.
- If your account is at its device limit, the sign-in is refused with a message rather than silently ignored — see devices and the device limit.