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# Signing in & saving progress
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_Play straight away as a guest, then save your aquarium to an account whenever you like._
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## Playing as a guest
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Open the game in your browser and you start playing right away as a guest, with no account to make first. It's a real aquarium: your fish hatch, grow and need care on the same clock as everyone else's.
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Until you save it, a guest aquarium lives only in that browser. Clearing the browser or switching devices before you save means starting over. Guests also earn no coins from sales or cleaning, although experience still counts. See [Coins](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/coins).
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## Saving your progress
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While you play as a guest, a small keeper mark with a gold dot sits at the top right of the screen, just under the menu buttons, and your very first visit opens with the sign-in panel. Tap the mark, or Save progress anywhere in the game, and that same panel opens: link a sign-in and every fish, coin and decoration stays yours, on any device. If the sign-in you choose already has an aquarium, you go straight to it. Coins start counting from the moment you link; earlier guest sales aren't paid back.
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Saving a guest aquarium offers Google, X and Apple, depending on where you play, and Game Center or Google Play Games first in the store apps that have them. Once it is saved, you can add Discord, a phone number and more from the Account app, and any of them signs you back in. There's no separate Fishies password to create or remember.
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On the desktop app, a guest saves with Save in your browser: your browser opens, you sign in there with Google, Apple or X, and the app's aquarium is saved to that sign-in while the app stays open. Open the page on the same network as the computer. If that sign-in already has an aquarium, the app opens that one instead and the guest aquarium stays behind.
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## One account, every device
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Sign in the same way on another phone or computer and the same aquarium is waiting for you, still running on the server's clock. Your username becomes your aquarium's address, and you have 15 minutes after choosing it to fix a typo before it locks.
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Signing out of a guest aquarium leaves it behind for good, so the game asks before it lets you go. Save it to a sign-in first if you want to keep it.
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Every way to sign in or save opens the same sign-in panel, wherever you start it: the game, the account panel, the front page or the desktop app. The best way in for your device comes first as one big button (Apple on iPhone, iPad and Mac, Google elsewhere), with the others in a small row under it and a phone number as a link. On the phone apps Discord and Steam open in your browser and bring you straight back; on the desktop app, choices with the small arrow mark finish in your browser. Steam signs in to an aquarium you've already linked it to.
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On the Steam version, a new or reinstalled game signs in with Steam first and opens the aquarium your Steam account is linked to. If it isn't linked yet, you choose between a new aquarium and the one you already have.
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On the desktop app, Sign in opens a page in your browser that asks you to approve the computer, naming what kind of computer it is and roughly where. Approve it only if it is yours. From the computer's own network one click is enough; from anywhere else you confirm it is you first. A guest can approve only from the computer's own network.
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Once you're signed in (or playing as a guest) on the desktop app, it opens straight into your aquarium as soon as its update check is done, without waiting for Play. The engine's splash mark plays only on the very first launch; after that only the Fishies mark shows, and a left click skips it.
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On the iPhone and iPad app, Game Center signs you in on its own, and on Android, Google Play Games does: the first launch opens a full aquarium of your own without a single tap, and reinstalling the app brings the same aquarium back. If you aren't signed in to Game Center, its own sign-in sheet appears once, on the very first launch only; skip it and you play as a guest, saved to Game Center the moment you sign in. If your Game Center or Play Games player already has an aquarium, a guest is taken there with a short notice. To play the same aquarium on the web or on another kind of phone, link Google, Apple or X in the Account app.
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## Just looking?
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You don't need an account to look around. The preview aquarium on the front page and every public aquarium can be [visited](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/visiting) while signed out.
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In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/signin · Fishies 0.8.24
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This page is generated. Its text lives in [`locales/en-GB.json`](../../../locales/en-GB.json) under `wiki.topics.signin`; correct it there.
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