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This makes me want to restart working on Owky - my 2FA open-source pet project.

Owky is short for “Own your keys”. Therefore the user owns the data - can easily be exported, and there’s no server sync (on purpose). No iCloud sync, nothing.

The app needs some love indeed, but it’s in a usable state.

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sounds more simple than Ente's Auth; for instance I can see having a simple totp record-keeping app on an internet-less rpi or similar (or highly restricted networking where an auth'd user can only webui interface with some backup/restore feature when blue-green'ing the device), integrated with some built in (touch)?screen to select/search service-account to read totp from and adding-new via screen as well.

edit: simple in terms of only ever needing to compile/validate the thing for linux (arm + intel)

fwiw, Ente's Auth works fully offline. E2EE backups / account creation is optional.

If you have an RPi that is accessible over a network, you could self host it as well: https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/

yep i did check all that; i however did not check Owky and only now realize it is an apple app; i was implying dont giveup on simple-apps just because another has similar features - sometimes simple things can have huge benifits (all subjective though)

Understood :)

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