Multiple AirTable Accounts?

[trashcaneron]

This is driving me nuts and I can’t believe I’m a hard time figuring this out…

I have a personal AirTable account for my freelance clients, personal projects, domestic stuff.

I also have several partners that use AirTable. I do not wish to merge these accounts because that’s insanity, but I would like to be able to use both simultaneously without signing out/signing in constantly.

Is this a very easy feature that I can’t figure out? Otherwise I’m launching a private window + the app or I could use something like Station to have multiple instances running.

Ideally, I’d be running both my personal account and my work account from the desktop app, mobile app, etc.

Any ideas?

[radcaneron]

Lol has anyone figured this out?

[James_TCA]

What about using the "install as app" feature in Edge/Chrome/Safari on your devices? While you won't be able to view all at once you could use the Airtable official apps for one account and the "install as app" for another? Not sure how this would work with more than two accounts given cookies/cache, but you could leverage different browsers or possibly even different browser profiles when installing different accounts as apps. I just did this with my work and personal and will test and update.

[Heather_Hale]

Did it work, @James_TCA?

I have the exact same problem, @trashcaneron and would LOVE to not have to sign in and out OR for my client to have to pay DOUBLE?! (Once to set up the base and once to share it with me?! When I already pay for an account, too? That doesn't seem right/fair?)

[James_TCA]

Hi @Heather_Hale yes this works well on desktop, not on mobile (iOS at least). You can use the browser of your choice and just setup more than one profile. I have one for work, personal, and a specific client as an example. Log in under the appropriate profile, log into the airtable environment you wish to associate with that profile via the browser then just use "install this site as an app" or similar functionality. I'm doing this with Edge on my mac and it works great. I have my main airtable for work installed using the dmg downloaded from Airtable and then others using the above method that were each installed under different profiles. I can then name the apps and even change the icons. The nice thing is the web app and Airtable app have slightly different icons so it's easy to distinguish already. I use them without issue side by side regularly.