Yandex Key – your passwords

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About this app

Yandex.Key is an authenticator generating one-time passwords (OTP) for Yandex, Google, GitHub, Dropbox, Vk.com, and other services with two-factor authentication (2FA). To log in to Yandex, enter this one-time password instead of your regular password, and to sign in to other services, with your normal password.

— Data protection
Yandex.Key safeguards your account from being hacked and your personal information from being stolen. One-time passwords will be available only to you, on your mobile device.

— Security standards
Yandex.Key supports two-factor authentication (or two-step verification) on all services using RFC 6238 and RFC 4226, except for services which only use sms.

— Backing up
Back up the data in Yandex.Key on Yandex's servers, to use in case something happens to your device. It's secure: you backup is encrypted using a password that only you know.

For more detail, please see https://ya.cc/2fa-en

Ratings and reviews

The app itself is good, but I’m unable to make backups. I always get the ‘sms limit exeeded’ message. so, if my phone breaks, I’m toasted 😞

IMHO, it needs to be a bit smarter. And, probably, it's not this app's fault. When I'm sitting on my computer and using my phone, the apps that depend on this (mail, drive, etc) ask for the token way too often. They should learn my metadata (ip, browser, OS, etc) and decide if I am me more often. I don't have a bad opinion on it but it's just a bit annoying.

2019-04-01 review: Perfect. Always use this app. 2022-06-09 updated review: Still perfect. I always use this and it's always worked for every service from all my game sites and game platforms like steam, all my emails, phone apps, etc. Backup worked perfectly when I changed phones. Never failed me, always simple. The only thing I'd like to see is an option to change the layout of all your accounts. I prefer to scroll down and have the accounts name as the title instead of a bubble with a letter

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.