Set up or restore your account (DIG desktop app)

Your account is a 24-word recovery phrase. Whoever holds it controls the account — there is no password reset and no support line that can recover it for you. Back it up, and keep the backup private.

The first time you open the DIG desktop app it sets up your account. You have two routes.

First run — create new or import

• Create a new account. The app generates a fresh 24-word recovery phrase for you. This is a brand-new account with no history.
• Import an existing recovery phrase. Already have an account — from this app on another machine, or any wallet that uses a standard 24-word recovery phrase? Choose Import, type your existing phrase, and the app restores that account. This is how you move your account to a new computer or recover it after a reinstall.

Either route ends with the same account unlocked and ready.

Back up your recovery phrase

You can view your recovery phrase — and make a copy of it — at any time from the app's backup screen. Because the phrase is the whole account, the app asks you to unlock first: the backup screen is reachable only after you confirm it's you.

From there you have three ways to save it:

• View it — the 24 words are shown on screen so you can write them down. Writing them on paper and storing that somewhere safe is the most durable backup.
• Copy to clipboard — puts the phrase on your clipboard so you can paste it into your own password manager.
• Save to a file — writes the phrase to a file you choose. On macOS and Linux the file is created readable only by your user account.

Keep the plaintext safe

The copy and save options write the phrase as plain text

Copying to the clipboard, or saving to a file, puts your recovery phrase in the clear — it is not encrypted by those actions. Anyone who reads that clipboard or that file can take your account. Treat both as sensitive:

• After copying, clear your clipboard once you've pasted the phrase where you want it. Clipboard history and clipboard sync (across your own devices, or to a cloud service) can quietly keep a copy — so don't leave it sitting there.
• If you save to a file, store it somewhere you trust — an encrypted disk or a password manager — and remove any stray copy from a shared or synced folder. On macOS and Linux the app restricts the file to your own account, but a plaintext seed is still only as safe as where you put it.

Written down on paper and kept offline, a recovery phrase is a strong backup. The risk is only in the plaintext copies you make — so make them deliberately, put them somewhere private, and don't leave loose copies behind.