Accounts
Add and manage accounts, and understand plans, quotas, balances, and authorization status.
Save an account, then decide where to use it
Accounts brings together accounts from integrated services and the usage information they provide. A service can have multiple accounts, and one page can manage accounts from different services. Use it to compare status, refresh data, and maintain authorization. Clicking an account card does not by itself switch an external client.
Add your first account
- Find the service in the service list and click Add Account.
- Complete browser sign-in, device-code authorization, client sign-in, or another supported flow as required by the service. Steps and prerequisites vary.
- Wait for EchoBird to save the authorization result. You can cancel while waiting. If the flow times out, start again rather than continuing to wait for the old attempt.
- Confirm the identity shown on the card, then go to App Desktop, select the corresponding app and account, and apply the selection or launch.
Adding a new login for some services requires their client to be installed locally. Whether an existing account can be refreshed or managed without that client also depends on its integration. Check the current entry’s guidance; you do not need to reinstall every client just to manage saved records.
Read quotas and balances correctly
| Displayed information | How to interpret it |
|---|---|
| Plan | The account’s subscription or service tier, not its remaining allowance |
| 5-hour, weekly, or other quotas | Separate quota periods; read each percentage and reset time individually |
| Balance / credits | The service’s own units, which cannot simply be added to those of other services |
| Countdown | A time reference for the corresponding reset period or service status |
| — or unknown | No usable data is available yet; it means neither zero nor unlimited |
Use Refresh when you need current data. Opening the page and explicitly querying a provider are different actions. Expired authorization, network problems, or a provider that does not expose a usage API can all affect the result.
Actions on account cards
- Refresh / Refresh All: retrieve supported usage information again. This does not switch a client’s account.
- Claim: appears only when the service offers this capability. Availability and the claim result depend on the account.
- Warm up: applies only to integrations that provide it; not every account needs warming up.
- Reauthorize: repeat sign-in when authorization has expired. First distinguish an authorization error from an ordinary quota-query failure.
- Ordering and privacy: drag frequently used accounts to the front, and hide identities when sharing your screen. Hiding an identity does not remove its authorization.
- Delete: follow the confirmation flow to remove the saved account record from EchoBird. This does not close the provider account or cancel its subscription.
A routine for working with multiple accounts
Before working, refresh your usual accounts and check the correct quota periods separately. In App Desktop, choose an account for the target tool and apply it. Prepare a separate configuration in Models if you need a backup API. Do not assume subscription allowances from multiple accounts can be pooled for all models.