Using Wizbook Cloud, or not

What it is for

One thing: having the same collection on your phone and your computer without moving a file between them. If you only ever use Wizbook in one place, you gain nothing by making an account, and that is a perfectly reasonable way to use it.

With an account, your collection, decks, binders and wishlists are kept for you. Open Wizbook on another device, sign in, and it is there.

Working without an account

• Your collection lives in a session on the server that is deleted when the session ends, so the file you download is the lasting copy. Save it somewhere you will find it again.
• Every tool works. Nothing is held back for account holders.
• There is no size limit, because nothing is being stored for you.

The one thing to watch is that saving means downloading a file. If you close the tab without saving, the session goes with it.

With an account

• Saving writes to Cloud instead of downloading a file, and happens on its own as you work.
• Wizbook holds your email address and your display name. Nothing else.
• Confirm your email when you sign up. The account works immediately either way, but an unconfirmed address cannot receive a password reset, which you will discover at the worst moment.

The size limits, and why they exist

• A free account syncs up to 10,000 cards.
• Patrons of any tier get 250,000.
• Copies of the same card count once. Decks, binders and wishlists do not count at all.

Every synced card sits on a server that costs real money, and Wizbook is paid for by the people who use it rather than by a company. There will never be a truly unlimited tier, and saying so now beats moving the number quietly later.

What happens at the limit

Nothing is lost and nothing is deleted. A save that would take you over is refused, and the cards stay on screen exactly as they are; they simply do not sync until the collection is back under.

• You are told at the moment it happens, including on an import, rather than finding out later when a small edit is refused.
• Deleting your way back under is always allowed, even while over, so the limit is never a trap you cannot get out of.
• Your local copy and your exports are unaffected. Export to Excel or JSON and the whole thing comes with you regardless of the cap.

Leaving

Two things, in this order. Export your collection: it comes out as Excel, as Wizbook JSON, or in the format of any of the tools Wizbook imports from, so nothing about having used Cloud makes it harder to stop.

Then, if you want to, delete the account. It is under Your account in the menu, behind your password and typing the word delete, and it removes the account, every collection synced to it and your patron status here. No waiting period, no email asking you to reconsider, and no copy kept.

Export first. Deleting is immediate, cannot be undone, and Wizbook genuinely has nothing left to restore from afterwards.

That is deliberate, and it is the promise the whole thing is built around: your collection is yours, it goes where you go, and Wizbook was not made to lock you in.

What Cloud is not

• Not a backup service. Keep your own export; a service you do not control is not a backup.
• Not a requirement for anything. No tool checks whether you are signed in before working.
• Not a place your data is mined. There is no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind, and the About page lists every outbound request Wizbook makes in full.