Get started with Ivy

🚀Start in 3 steps

1. Create your free account on ivytech-ai.com (with Google or your email).
2. Install Ivy on your Windows PC: the download appears in your dashboard at launch.
3. Open Ivy and sign in with the same account: your plan activates by itself.

✅Paid plan: nothing to set up

Essential, Pro and Max include the AI: no key, no setup. Sign in to the app and you're done. Your monthly usage is shown at the top of your dashboard.

🔑Free: your Google Gemini key (free, 1 minute)

1. In Ivy, click “Get your free Gemini key” (or open aistudio.google.com/apikey).
2. Sign in with your Google account, then click “Create API key”.
3. Copy the key (it starts with AIza…).
4. Go back to Ivy and click “📋 Paste my key & activate”. Done.

✨Option: Sunee with your OpenAI key

1. Open platform.openai.com and sign in.
2. Add a small credit (Billing) and set a spending limit.
3. In “API keys”, click “Create new secret key” and copy the key (sk-…).
4. In Ivy: Settings › Keys › OpenAI, paste the key.

🎬Studio: link YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram (Pro plan)

1. In Ivy, open Studio › PUBLISH tab.
2. Click “Link” next to the network you want.
3. The network's official page opens: sign in yourself and accept.
4. Back in Ivy, the account shows as “linked”. You can unlink it at any time.

📈Trading: link MetaTrader 5 (Pro plan)

1. Install MetaTrader 5 from your broker's website and open an account (a demo account is recommended to start).
2. In MetaTrader, turn on the “Algo Trading” button: it must be green.
3. In Ivy: Markets › ⚙ Desk settings › MetaTrader 5 account: enter the account login, password and server.
4. Choose demo or real mode: Ivy always shows which one is active.

💼Net worth: link a wallet (Phantom, MetaMask, Fomo, Hyperliquid)

1. In the app where your wallet lives, copy your PUBLIC address (the one you give to receive: 0x… for MetaMask and Hyperliquid, the Solana address for Phantom and Fomo).
2. In IVY, open the Wallet (◉ icon in the left bar), then “+ Connect a platform”.
3. Pick the platform, click “Paste” (Ivy checks it really is a public address), give it a name, then “Add”.
4. Even simpler: tell or write to Ivy “connect my Phantom” or “add my MetaMask 0x…” — she pre-fills everything, you confirm.

🟡Binance: link your account (read-only key)

1. On Binance: Profile › API Management › “Create API” (System generated). Give it a name, for example “IVY read”.
2. Leave only “Enable Reading” ticked. NEVER tick “Enable Withdrawals”: Ivy would refuse the key.
3. In IVY: Wallet › “+ Connect a platform” › Binance › “Open the Binance assistant”: paste the key and the secret in the page (never in the chat).
4. Ivy checks the key with Binance, keeps it encrypted on your PC, and your Spot and Futures balances appear in your net worth.

🔵Coinbase: link your account (read-only key)

1. On Coinbase: Settings › API (Coinbase Developer Platform) › “Create API key” with the “View” permission only.
2. In IVY: Fund › Wallets tab › “Follow a wallet” › Coinbase: paste the key name and the secret.
3. Ivy checks that the key can neither trade nor withdraw, then reads your balances. A key that can trade is refused.

🏠Smart home: lights, TV, Home Assistant

1. In IVY: “Connections” button (left bar) › “Search for devices”: Ivy looks on your network for Hue bridges, WiZ bulbs, Shelly plugs, Samsung TVs, printers and Home Assistant.
2. Click “Add” next to the device. Philips Hue bridge: press the round button on the bridge when Ivy asks. Samsung TV: accept the request on the TV screen.
3. Home Assistant: create a long-lived access token in your Home Assistant profile and paste it in the Connections page (never in the chat).
4. Then, by voice or in writing: “turn off the living room”, “turn on the TV”, “set the heating to 20”. Locks never open by voice.

🎙️Talking to Ivy: what she understands

1. Talk to her like a person: “Ivy, tidy my Desktop”, “sum up my emails”, “how much do I have in total across platforms”, “where to trade crypto”.
2. To link something, just say it: “connect my Phantom”, “link TikTok”, “add my MetaMask 0x…” — she opens the right page, already filled in.
3. Before any send or sensitive action, she asks for your permission: once, always, or no. You can interrupt her, she keeps the thread.

🖥️Help on your PC: folders and apps

1. Tell her where to work: “open my Invoices folder”, “sort the photos on the Desktop”. Ivy asks for access to that folder: allow once, always, or refuse.
2. She can open your apps, read the screen and browse for you (Pro plan), always after your go-ahead — and never your system files or your keys.
3. PC health: “is my PC running hot?”: temperatures, memory, disks, and a safe, reversible Boost button.

🤖Your own agents

1. In IVY: “Agents” button (left bar) › “Create with Ivy”.
2. Give it a name, a badge, a mission and its limits: Ivy asks the useful questions and prepares the agent.
3. It appears in the Nexus with its badge; you pause it, edit it or delete it whenever you like.

💬Discord: Ivy on your server

1. In IVY: Studio › Accounts › Discord › “Link”: Ivy gives you a code valid for 10 minutes.
2. On your Discord server (as an administrator), type: /ivy-settings link: YOUR-CODE.
3. Ivy then answers your members with your instructions; a public announcement only goes out after your approval, every time.

🔐Your external accounts, your rules

Keys and permissions for external services (Google, OpenAI, social networks, broker) stay in your name: you manage them and can revoke them whenever you like, on their side and in Ivy.