Leave a Review Raivo Authenticator
requesting features
please add
1. import from backup
2. change password ( that uses to encrypt our data in iCloud)
tnxمهدی صالحی
Raivo
Amazing, thanks for your hard work.jilljdstunmv
Reviewed the options
Mentioned on hacker news, open source, much more thought out and logical in ux than authy and has current and last OTP codes. Modern app using iOS design language, it does what an OTP app should do and syncs to iCloud.
5 stars.byte9
Developer Response
Whoop Whoop 🎉🎉Wonderful app!
This is probably the best 2FA app out there. It’s smooth, you can sync it though iCloud, and easy to use. I use it mainly to protect my password manager and a few apps that I want to keep separate from the password manager. This is way better than Authy and Google. I got my family to use this to protect their password manager also.
Keep up the good work!Show lessdudeitsjim
Developer Response
☺️Awesome
Glad it’s e2e, open source, nice design, Apple friendly, native/swift code.
One detail to fix: the countdown has red pixels on the right side and the thing is inverse. The animation round part should be flipped on the right side. Right? Looks strange. Otherwise, solid design. :)Appesque
1.4.6 receiver still broken w/Ventura
Nice that some features got added but TH most critical feature of this app (receivers) is STILL brokenkizate88
I’d love to try it, but…
The app does not appear to have a method for bulk-importing password seeds from another app, such as Google Authenticator. The only way that I can see to add OTPs is to add them one by one. This is especially odd given that the app allows for the bulk export of OTP seeds, but not bulk import of the same file.
Please add support for QR codes that have many OTP seeds at once, as well as the ability to import the same zip file that is exported by the app.
Looking forward to being able to try the app.Show lesselgrego1939
Developer Response
That's a great future request. I hope to add this whenever I can spend some time on the development again. Cheers, TijmeAbsolutely top-notch!!
Thanks to this app, I was able to reconfig all my TOTP services to work with my password manager. Google Auth and others do not provide any way to retrieve the underlying TOTP seed, but Raivo does. This solved SO many problems for me. I cannot recommend this app enough! Thank you!!chrismillerkeys.com
This app saved me from Microsoft Authenticator
I am so happy I found this app randomly mentioned on Hackernews. I was previously using Microsoft Authenticator which DOES NOT allow for exporting of OTP secrets/seeds so once you set up your 2FA with their app, you’re kind of stuck unless you go through the process of going back through your websites/services and setting up 2FA again (but this time with a different app).
Some things that this app has that Microsoft Authenticator does not:
- Search
This was the most important feature to me. Having dozens of 2FA passwords in Microsoft Authenticator with no ability to search/filter for the one you’re looking for is disgraceful for a trillion dollar company. Scrolling through my password list trying to find the one I’m looking for each and every time was so frustrating.
Raivo’s search is very good and works for searching by service or username. Hallelujah.
- Open source
As a software engineer myself I appreciate this probably more than most, but when it comes to security it is nice knowing that the code is public and available for audit. It’s also nice having a public place to submit bugs/issues and feature requests to interact directly with the developer and surrounding community.
- Icons
This is probably less important in the grand scheme of things, but it is a nice touch having icons next to your passwords to see what service it corresponds to at a glance. It’s also nice that the developer has a process for uploading icons for a service that may not be present yet!
- Synchronization
Sync through iCloud was seamless and fast. I loaded up Raivo with all my 2FA passwords and they all showed up on my iPad instantly.
- Export
Being able to export your secrets/seeds for both backup and future migration is HUGE. Raivo allows the user to export an encrypted archive containing both a nice HTML file that displays each password’s QR code, secret, and other miscellaneous information and a json file with the same information.
I exported a backup to my Mac easily via airdrop and saved it locally for safe keeping. This was not possible on Microsoft Authenticator.
- MacOS Receiver
This is a really nice feature. I’m not the target market since all of my OTP codes are also in my password manager (and auto fill into websites/services as a result), but for users who may not do this, being able to set up your Mac to instantly receive OTP codes when copied on your mobile device is a really nice quality of life feature and works seamlessly each time I tested it.
Summary
This app is fast, simple, open source and covers all the bases for what I would expect in a 2FA/OTP app. My only concern is that its possible that the dev will not have time to work on bugs or requested features and the app will become stagnant. Other than that I am very satisfied with Raivo and will be using it exclusively.
Note to the dev: PLEASE keep up the work on this app. It is really great and your hard work is sincerely appreciated. I’m going to be donating :)Show lessajyey
The way apps should be built
Most of apps now a day does way more than needed and gets complicated too soon. Worse, they forget or intentionally avoid the must have feature.
I like having backups just in case app or the company tanks out of no where. No 2FA app out there let you backup content in a simple encrypted platform agnostic format. What’s the point of backup if it needs original parent app to restore, the on whose lifecycle user has no control on.
Simple words, use this app for beautiful UI, backup frequently to zip format for peace of mind and rainy days.Show lessbelibebond
