private application

A private application is an application that requires users to sign in with an ArcGIS account. It supports user authentication to authenticate requests.

The access tokens used in a private application contain all of the capabilities of the signed-in user's ArcGIS account. This includes their privileges for services and items, as well as all additional operations their account can perform.

Private applications are commonly built by ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise developers for members of an organization, or for specific groups within an organization. Some use cases include:

• A low/no-code application that is shared to an organization.
• An item browser for an organization that requires sign-in to view.
• A script that performs spatial analysis that requires sign-in to use.