Quickstart
Five minutes from "I have the installer" to "I'm launching my first profile." Skip ahead if you've done a section before.
1. Install
Grab the latest signed Windows installer from incogsurf.com → Download. Run the Incogsurf-Setup-x.y.z.exe NSIS bundle. It installs into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Incogsurf and adds a Start-menu shortcut.
On first launch, Incogsurf downloads Chrome for Testing to its own folder under %APPDATA%\incogsurf\chrome-for-testing. The download is ~140 MB and gated by a progress bar — keep the window open. The bundled Chromium that ships with Playwright is not used: detection systems fingerprint the binary, and stock Chrome is far less identifiable.
2. Sign up
Click Create account on the gate. Enter email + password, tick the Terms / Privacy / AUP box, hit submit. Confirm the email link in your inbox (Resend delivers it within seconds; check spam if not).
On first sign-in you're prompted to enroll TOTP MFA. We require AAL2 on every account — there is no "skip for now." Scan the QR with 1Password, Bitwarden, or Authy and enter the first 6-digit code.
3. Choose a plan
Account → Billing shows your current tier. Trial gives you 2 profiles + 5 GB / month for 14 days. Upgrade to Starter or Pro from the same screen — checkout is hosted on Stripe and VAT-aware (EU OSS for consumers; reverse-charge with a valid VAT ID for B2B).
4. Configure proxy access
The default path is auto-managed PlainProxies — Incogsurf provisions a sticky NL ISP-static proxy per profile. Account → Settings → PlainProxies API → paste your X-API-KEY from the PlainProxies dashboard → Test API key.
If you'd rather bring your own proxy provider, see BYO proxy.
5. Create your first profile
Sidebar → New profile. Pick a fingerprint bundle (or generate fresh ones — there are 50 staged at any time). Name the profile. Click Create.
The first time you assign an identity, you'll click through the AUP one more time (we log the attestation per AUP version, not per identity). After that, identity uploads go through unattested.
6. Validate the identity
Profile detail → Validate identity. We run sanity checks on email reachability, phone-line type (Twilio Lookup; landline / VOIP fails), and payment-instrument plausibility (BIN check). Identity validation must succeed before launch.
Details: Identity validation.
7. Warm up
Profile detail → Start warmup. Warmup runs a humanlike Google + casual-browse session for 8-12 hours and then sets a 48-72 hour calendar-time gate before the profile is considered "aged." Don't skip this; aged profiles look completely different to a defence stack than fresh ones.
8. Launch
After the shelf-age gate elapses, the profile shows a green Aged badge. Click Launch. Chrome opens with the configured stealth injector, the sticky proxy bound, and the persona's cookies preserved.
From this point you operate the browser manually, exactly like you'd operate any real Chrome session.
Where to go next
- Self-test pipeline — verify the profile against the coherence rules before you start touching live infrastructure.
- Troubleshooting — what to do when the launcher freezes, the proxy times out, or warmup loops.
- FAQ — questions we get asked the most.