Browse Discover and the community without signing in
Explore public work and creator profiles, and learn which actions need an account.
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Browse Discover without an account
- Open Discover. You do not need to sign in.
- Choose a tab: Explore, Creations, Graphs, Characters, Audio, Models & styles or People.
- Type in the search box to narrow the results.
- Use the filters to narrow further: type, license, price and preview format.
- Change the order with Newest, Name A–Z, Curated first or Price, grouped by unit.
- Open a card to read its item page, collection or profile.
Opening a page starts no generation and spends no credits. Your filters are kept in the page address, so you can share or bookmark a filtered view.
What you can read without signing in
| Page | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Discover | The Wavemaker catalog, published community items, public collections and public profiles. |
| Public showcases | Work that creators made explicitly public. |
Item pages (/items/...) | The description, preview, creator, version, license, requirements, versions and public discussion. |
Catalog pages (/discover/catalog/...) | Wavemaker catalog guides and methods, marked By Wavemaker. |
Creator profiles (/creators/...) | A team's published items, public collections and follower count. |
Personal profiles (/people/...) | A person's name, photo and bio, when they made the profile public. |
Collections (/collections/...) | The collection's title, description, revision and members. |
| Examples, Help, developer docs and Blog | Wavemaker's own studies, guides and posts. |
| Policies | Terms, privacy, community guidelines and the other public policies. |
Public discussion on item and collection pages is readable without an account. The comment box is disabled until you sign in.
What needs an account
| Action | What you need |
|---|---|
| Add an item to your Library | A personal sign-in, and acceptance of the acquiring agreement when Wavemaker asks for it. |
| Use in a conversation from an item page | A sign-in with write access, and the item in your Library. |
| Use in a conversation from a catalog page | A sign-in. |
| Save for later, Save to collection or Save search | A sign-in with write access. |
| Follow a person or team | A personal sign-in with write access. |
| Comment, reply or Thumbs up | A personal sign-in with write access. |
| Report content | A personal sign-in. |
| Publish an item or a public collection | A personal sign-in and acceptance of the publication agreement. |
| The Acquired by this workspace and Following filters | A sign-in. Signed out, these filters show a lock and a Sign in button. |
When you choose an action that needs an account, Wavemaker sends you to sign in and then returns you to the page you were on. See Account access.
Your conversations, uploads, Library, receipts and settings stay off public pages unless you share or publish something from them. See Share or export selected work deliberately. A creator's working project stays private when they publish a version from it.
How 18+ material works
18+ material is hidden by default. It stays hidden for every visitor who is not signed in, and for every signed-in person who has not turned it on.
To show 18+ items:
- Sign in with your personal account.
- Open Settings › General (/app/settings) and find 18+ content.
- Turn on Show 18+ material.
- Choose Save content settings.
Turning the switch on needs an active paid plan on the workspace you are signed in to. Payment is how Wavemaker verifies you are 18 or older. Without one, saving fails with "Show 18+ material stays off until you have a paid Wavemaker plan." and the switch turns back off. Choose a plan under Usage and credits (/app/usage), then return and turn it on. See Plans. Turning the switch on and saving is your confirmation that you are 18 or older.
The setting belongs to you, not to a workspace, so it applies in every workspace you use. It controls only what you see. Adult generation doesn't depend on it or on a plan: the agent judges from the brief whether it asks for adult work, and you don't declare your age to make it.
| Status line | Values | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plan | Active, Not active or Unknown | Whether Wavemaker found an active paid plan. Unknown means the plan could not be loaded; saving still checks it. |
| 18+ in Discover | Shown or Hidden | Follows the switch. |
If your paid plan ends while the switch is on, 18+ items stay visible.
Signed in, Discover shows "18+ material is shown" or "18+ material is hidden" with a Content settings link. Items rated 18+ carry · 18+ on their Discover card.
What a hidden 18+ item looks like
An 18+ item is left out of Discover results, search, creator pages and related links for anyone who has not turned it on. Knowing the link does not help: the item page shows Content unavailable with "This item may be private, withdrawn or restricted by your content settings." The same page appears for items that are private or withdrawn, so it does not reveal which reason applies. It offers Browse Discover, Content settings and Go home.
How an item is rated 18+
A creator chooses General or 18+ only when publishing. Wavemaker also rates an item 18+ when its name, tags or declared ratings mark it as adult, whatever the creator chose. A creator can publish an 18+ item only with Show 18+ material turned on. See Publish your work and manage listings.
What a public listing tells you
Every listing names its exact version, creator, license and declared requirements. Public visibility does not grant reuse rights or source access on its own. Read the license before you reuse anything.
A collection groups exact versions of items. Each member keeps its own access and license, and opening a collection does not add its members to your Library. A member that is no longer public shows as Unavailable item.
See Discover, acquire and reuse for what each section of an item page means and how to add an item.
If a page does not load
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Content unavailable | The item is private, withdrawn, removed or rated 18+. | Choose Browse Discover, or sign in and check Content settings. |
| "These filters are unavailable. Browse public creative resources." | A filter in the address is not valid. | Choose Reset filters. |
| Discover changed while you were browsing | New results arrived while you paged through a filtered view. | Choose Restart this view for current results and counts. |
| Could not load results | The results request failed. | Choose Try again. Your filters are kept. |
Related guides
- Discover, acquire and reuse
- Profiles, follows, comments and reports
- Account access
- Policies, privacy and agreements