They don’t remove anything
So how it works is they scan and give you a to do list. The to do list is also not doable as most of the list has no idea what site your information came from. It’s just an endless long list of data breaches you can’t do a darn thing about it. I contacted them and they said…yup, that the way it works. So yeah…it’s like doctor diagnosing you with lots of diseases but you can’t know where or what they are.
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What does Aura actually do?
As far as I can see they only provide the broker sites for you to have opt out of everything. They don’t do it automatically like other apps do such as Cloak. With Cloak you just have to give them all your emails you used, all the home addresses you have have (which by the way this Aura only allows you to enter one home address) all the phone numbers you have or had and they automatically remove you from all broker sites. Aura should be paying you not the other way around because you yourself are doing all the work. Not satisfied with this service
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Someone hacked into my Aura account
Not safe. Within 3-4 hours after setting up Aura, someone hacked into the Aura app and changed my personal information.
Missing Passkey Support
Aura is a really strong tool for identity protection and, in many ways, the clear choice if you want identity monitoring, data removal, and password management bundled together—especially for a family.
What holds it back from a five-star rating for me is the password manager. When I use Aura as the integrated password manager on my iPhone, it repeatedly asks me to sign in again, and it also lacks passkey support.
The repeated sign-in issue may be something I’m doing wrong; I haven’t researched it nearly as much as the passkey limitation, and ultimately it’s more of an annoyance than a dealbreaker. The lack of passkey support, however, is what had me looking at alternatives today.
For the growing number of services that support passkey sign-in, Aura essentially leaves you to fend for yourself. That has become the biggest pain point for me. As a Linux user, I’ve yet to find a good workaround, so I’ve had to fall back on my not-yet-expired Keeper subscription.
I don’t really want to leave Aura, but this problem is only going to become more significant over time as passkeys become more widely adopted. There are workarounds, particularly if you use only Windows or macOS, but if I’m already paying for a password-management solution, I don’t want to have to cobble together multiple services just to get complete functionality.
One of Aura’s biggest selling points is that it is supposed to be a seamless, bundled solution. My Keeper subscription expires in January, and if I have to renew it just to get proper passkey support, I may end up canceling Aura altogether.
What holds it back from a five-star rating for me is the password manager. When I use Aura as the integrated password manager on my iPhone, it repeatedly asks me to sign in again, and it also lacks passkey support.
The repeated sign-in issue may be something I’m doing wrong; I haven’t researched it nearly as much as the passkey limitation, and ultimately it’s more of an annoyance than a dealbreaker. The lack of passkey support, however, is what had me looking at alternatives today.
For the growing number of services that support passkey sign-in, Aura essentially leaves you to fend for yourself. That has become the biggest pain point for me. As a Linux user, I’ve yet to find a good workaround, so I’ve had to fall back on my not-yet-expired Keeper subscription.
I don’t really want to leave Aura, but this problem is only going to become more significant over time as passkeys become more widely adopted. There are workarounds, particularly if you use only Windows or macOS, but if I’m already paying for a password-management solution, I don’t want to have to cobble together multiple services just to get complete functionality.
One of Aura’s biggest selling points is that it is supposed to be a seamless, bundled solution. My Keeper subscription expires in January, and if I have to renew it just to get proper passkey support, I may end up canceling Aura altogether.
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A scam
You have to pay extra to get anything removed by them
