Accounts, plans & your data

Signing in#

During the open beta, Tranzio sits behind a sign in, so you use it with a free account. Signing up takes an email address and a password, plus a quick email confirmation, and you're in. There's a Google button on both screens if you'd rather not pick another password; using it creates the account on the spot, which is why the screen says that continuing with Google means accepting the Terms and the Privacy Policy. Later, if you want extra safety, you can turn on two factor authentication in Settings; it adds a six-digit code from your phone to each sign in.

The account is what connects you to the community side of Tranzio: it's how your published adaptations carry your name, how teams can message you back, how your ratings count, and how your notifications find you. You can keep your presence as quiet or as public as you like (see Privacy & Incognito).

Your profile photo#

Pick a picture in Settings → Profile, or while signing up, and Tranzio opens a cropper before anything is uploaded. Drag to reframe, scroll or use the slider to zoom, and rotate if the phone got it sideways. Avatars are drawn in a circle everywhere in the app, so this is the difference between choosing your framing and letting the browser guess it.

Changing your password#

Settings → Account & Security → Update password emails you a code, and the new password is set once you enter it. It is the same two steps as "forgot password", and deliberately: a session someone left open on a borrowed laptop should not be enough to take the account over, and typing the old password proves nothing about who is typing it. It is also the only way that works if you signed in with Google and never set one.

Free, Pro, and Studio#

The free plan does almost everything, and that's deliberate: browsing the catalog, installing translations, building your own, publishing them, messaging, all of it. The paid Pro and Studio plans exist for heavy users, and what they add is mostly convenience and capacity rather than access.

Where your games and translations live#

Tranzio is a desktop app, and it treats your computer as home. Your library, your translation work, and your settings are stored locally, in small database files that end in .tranzio (they're ordinary SQLite databases inside, if you're the curious type). Two good things follow from that: most of the app keeps working offline, and your work is genuinely yours, sitting on your own disk.

Signing in on another computer#

Your account travels, your files stay put. Install Tranzio on a second machine, sign in, and your messages, notifications, achievements and published adaptations are all waiting, because they belong to the account rather than to the computer. Your games, your restore points and anything you haven't published stay where you made them. So moving a translation in progress to another machine means publishing it, not copying a folder across.