Your Parley identity.

Parley has no accounts and no passwords. Your identity is a digital key that the Parley app makes on your computer and keeps there. It proves it’s you to every Parley server you join, and no server or company ever holds it.

Making your identity

Install Parley and open it. It asks for a name: servers use it when you join, and if it’s taken on one, you pick another name just for that server.
Back it up. Your identity only lives on this computer, so Parley makes a backup: 24 words that bring it back if the computer is lost. Choose one of the two ways below.

With 1Password Recommended

1Password keeps the words safe and Parley checks the copy, so there’s nothing to write down. Other password managers are coming later.

Use the 1Password app from 1password.com. The Microsoft Store version doesn’t have the setting Parley needs.
In 1Password, turn on Settings › Developer › Integrate with other apps. You only do this once.
In Parley, click Save to 1Password and enter the email you sign in to 1Password with. Parley only uses it to tell 1Password which account to use; it isn’t saved.
Approve the request when 1Password asks. Parley saves a Secure Note called Parley identity, checks it, and you’re done.

By hand

No password manager needed.

Parley shows your 24 words, numbered. Write them down, click Print, or click Copy and paste them somewhere private.
Click I’ve saved the words. Parley asks which word is at three of the numbers, to make sure your copy is right.
Keep the words somewhere safe and private, away from this computer.

Restoring on a new computer

Install Parley, open it and choose I already have an identity: restore it. You come back as the same person, and servers you’ve joined let you straight back in without an invite code.

From 1Password

Make sure Integrate with other apps is on in 1Password on the new computer.
Click Restore from 1Password, enter your 1Password email and approve the request.
Pick your Parley identity item if you have more than one. The words fill in by themselves; click Restore.

From your words

Type your 24 words in order, or paste them. A numbered list copied from Parley works as it is.
Click Restore. If a word is misspelt or two are swapped, Parley tells you which to check.

Keeping it safe

Anyone who has your 24 words can be you. Don’t share them, and don’t type them into a website. Parley only asks for them when you restore.
Each computer gets its own keys. Restoring on a new computer doesn’t stop the old one from working.
Losing both the computer and the words means the identity is gone. You’d make a new one and ask to be invited again.

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