ElsterSecure - sicherer Login

ELSTER - Bayerisches Landesamt für Steuern

About this app

ElsterSecure is the new authentication app from ELSTER.

Once set up, all you need to log in is your smartphone. You no longer need a certificate file or a user name after the initial setup.


How to set up ElsterSecure:

Log in to MeinElster as usual.
Go to "My Account".
Under “Add ElsterSecure login option” you can link the app with your MeinElster account.

If you do not yet have a MeinElster account, you can register at www.elster.de and select ElsterSecure as your login option.

Note: Authentication using ElsterSecure is currently only possible for logging into MeinElster. Third-party transmission is not yet supported.


ElsterSecure requires the following permissions:

Access to the device's camera(s): This permission is required to scan the QR code.

Data protection information can be found at https://www.elster.de/eportal/helpGlobal?themaGlobal=datenschutz_public

Ratings and reviews

Elster is a disaster. Logging in is a nightmare thanks to a self-referential auth trap: each authentication method depends on another that ultimately points back to the first. If you're locked out of your main method, the alternatives are useless because they refer right back to the one that caused the lockout. It's a vicious circle with no way out. Needlessly overcomplicated. For something as critical as taxes, this level of design failure is unacceptable. absolutely scum!

You have obviously tried to make the whole Elster experience as difficult and user unfriendly as possible. Well done. This is a masterpiece. I try to use Elster as little as possible, most 3rd party apps are much easier to navigate, and for 30€ a year definitely worth not having to use this complicated website. Unfortunately for some registration stuff we all have to use Elster, hence the terrible ratings it gets.

I mean this ist just ridiculous, I want only to change my steuerklasse, I got two letters by post with codes,finally I get there to do it all,activate and it asks to verify with a fingerprint,but I never use a finger print I cancelled and now its a all goes back to the beginning. Jesus its very complicated and absolutely not userfriendly with all these emails+login options and codes and verification. I think I have to do the steuerklasse change per post, wich is again ridiculous.....