Starting today, you can use Warp without signing up for an account or logging in first. Download the app for MacOS or Linux, or join our waitlist for Windows. Run your first command with no hurdles to jump through first.

Download Warp or sign up for the Windows waitlist today.

What everybody gets in Warp

When you Download Warp today, you’ll get access to all of the core features of the modern terminal along with a preview of more advanced features, whether you’ve logged in or not. We still think the best experience comes from logging in, so consider this a preview of the logged in experience. We will be tweaking exactly how this works, and some features may be gated to logged in users in the coming weeks or months– for now enjoy some AI on us.

Try it now. You can decide whether or not you want to authenticate to unlock more AI and team features when you’re ready.

How we got here

When we launched the Warp beta back in 2022, we laid it out there, “You will notice that a log-in is required…we do so to enable team features.”

Our business reason for requiring user authentication has always been: the best Warp experience is one where developers are working together as a team. Warp is the only multiplayer terminal that lets you share knowledge and tools—like workflows, notebooks, and environment variables—through a cloud-connected interface on the command line. There’s a lot of evidence that this provides value, especially for teams who are onboarding engineers remotely or streamlining processes at work.

Later, when we integrated AI into the terminal, user authentication was helpful for preventing abuse and managing AI costs per-user.

But today, as Warp has hundreds of thousands of engineers using the app, we are in a very different place than we were in 2022. While logging in no doubt enhances the user experience, we are confident that developers who try the app in a logged out state will see the value in what we’ve created.

A note on privacy

Feedback on Warp’s login requirement typically comes hand in hand with questions about privacy. To that end, I wanted to take this opportunity to reiterate some of our thoughts:

• Warp’s (and my) core belief is that you deserve transparency and control regarding the data that leaves your machine
• We’ve publicized information on our telemetry: you can read the full-list of telemetry events we log, can opt-out in-app at any time, and learn how to view the network log
• You can read more about our privacy and security policies on these pages. If you have additional security issues or questions please email security@warp.dev
• And lastly, a PSA: being logged out != being offline; the opt-out process for telemetry is the same as if you were logged in. This also allows non-logged-in users to try some of our cloud features like AI before logging in.

You spoke up, we heard you

If you were one of the hundreds of developers who let us know that the login requirement was keeping you from using Warp, we heard you. Thank you for speaking up.

If you were one of the developers who told us the login requirement was preventing you from recommending Warp to your friends, we heard you, too. We hope you’ll feel more confident referring people to Warp now that the requirement has been lifted.

I’m excited about this new chapter and look forward to continuing to deliver a terminal experience that empowers developers everywhere.