A personal application is an application used exclusively by its owner and not shared with others. It supports API key authentication, user authentication, or app authentication to authenticate requests.
The access tokens used in a personal application can contain any privileges associated with the owner's ArcGIS account. It can even impersonate the owner's ArcGIS account, allowing the app to act on the owner's behalf and perform any action they would be able to when logged in to ArcGIS.
Personal apps are not published or shared, and are often implemented as scripts or interactive applications local to your computer. For example, a script or application that performs administrative operations against the portal associated with your account.
Related terms
- public application
- private application
- API key authentication
- user authentication
- app authentication