Your account

An account is only for Stab Cloud: your songs on every device, their history, share links and published pages. Everything else in Stab works without one, buying Stab included. There’s no password: Stab emails you a code each time you sign in on a new device, and signing in with a new address makes a free account.

Signing in and out

Available on every platform.

Signing in

Start from Sign In on the home, at the right of its bar or on the Stab Cloud card. A song’s Stab Cloud, signed out, has Sign In…, which opens the same form.

Tick I’m 15 or older and I accept the Terms. It’s required, and it’s never ticked for you: it’s asked at every sign-in, whichever way you sign in. If you press a button before ticking it, the form says so on the box. Send me news and updates from Stab (no spam) is optional.
Type your email address.
Ask for the code: Continue with Email.
Type or paste the 6-digit code from the mail: the sixth digit signs you in. A code works for 10 minutes, once. Send a new code sends another; Use a different email goes back to step 2.

The mail also has a link that fills the code in for you on the web.

On the Mac, Continue with Apple, above the email, signs in with your Apple Account instead of a code. It opens Apple’s page in a browser sheet and closes once you’re signed in. Like the code, it needs the box ticked first.

On Windows, Continue with Apple, above the email, signs in with your Apple Account instead of a code. It opens Apple’s page in your browser, and Stab signs you in when the browser hands you back. Like the code, it needs the box ticked first.

Not Now closes the form.

Once you’re signed in, Stab shows your plan and offers to move songs from this device to Stab Cloud. Not Now leaves them where they are; each song’s menu on the home has Move to Stab Cloud for later. See Songs in Stab Cloud.

Your account on the home

Signed in, the home’s Stab Cloud card shows your plan, the storage used, and how your songs stand (edits waiting to go up, or all in step). Your face, at the right of the home’s bar, opens the account menu: Account…, Your Name and Colour…, Open Invite Link…, Download All (see Download All), Purchases…, Settings… (Settings, at General) and Sign Out. Delete Account… is in Settings › Account (the menu’s Account… opens it). What each plan holds is in Stab Cloud plans.

News and updates

Every mail about what’s new has a link to stop them. While signed in, Settings › Account › News and updates turns them on or off.

Signing out

Choose Sign Out from the home’s account menu (your face). Songs with edits that haven’t gone up yet are said first; they stay on this device and go up when you sign in again. A cloud song open while signed out says so beside its name: “Signed out: edits stay here until you sign in”. What Stab Cloud unlocks on this device ends with signing out: past three songs of your own, Stab is read only until you sign in again or unlock Stab (see Three free songs).

Deleting your account

Delete Account… says first which of your songs are shared with other people (they lose them too), then what it deletes: your songs in Stab Cloud, their versions, share links and published pages, 30 days from now. If the account holds credits you bought, it says how many: they go with the account, so use them first, or ask for a refund of a pack bought in the last 14 days (see Credits). Tick I understand (I understand, including the songs I share when you share some), then choose Delete Account. Every device is signed out. Signing in again within the 30 days cancels it. Songs kept on a device stay there.

On Windows it’s also on the Licence page of Settings.

Command	Keys	Where
Sign Out		the home’s account menu (your face)

Command	Keys	Where
Sign Out		the home’s account menu (your face)

Command	Keys	Where
Sign Out		the home’s account menu (your face)

Your age, when you sign up

Available on every platform.

Stab is for everyone, at any age. A Stab Cloud account is for people 15 and over, and with it everything an account carries: cloud songs, sharing, invite and share links, and Publish. So are crash reports and usage statistics.

The box decides on most devices. Ticking I’m 15 or older and I accept the Terms says you’re 15 or over. Stab asks no other question and never sends your age: the service only learns that the Terms were accepted.
On the iPhone and iPad, Stab also asks the system for the Apple Account’s age range before the form, on iOS and iPadOS 26 and later.
Under 15, the card and Stab Cloud show one sentence in place of the form: “Stab Cloud is for people 15 and over. Everything else in Stab is yours.” Settings then shows Age: Under 15, and crash reports and usage statistics stay off.
A device already signed in that learns its person is under 15 is signed out of Stab Cloud, and the cloud songs that were on it are kept there as songs of the device.

Nothing else in Stab asks your age.