FreeOTP Authenticator

Red Hat

About this app

FreeOTP adds a second layer of security for your online accounts. This works by generating one-time passwords on your mobile devices which can be used in conjunction with your normal password to make your login nearly impossible to hack. These passwords can be generated even when your phone is in airplane mode.

FreeOTP works with many of the great online services you already use, including Google, Facebook, Evernote, GitHub and many more! FreeOTP also may work for your private corporate security if they implement the standardized TOTP or HOTP protocols. This includes great enterprise solutions like FreeIPA.

FreeOTP is open source and free software! Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, you can obtain the source code for FreeOTP at https://fedorahosted.org/freeotp for review or modification. Contributions are welcome!

Ratings and reviews

Loved it. Still love it. My only concern is the lack of updates. Don't really care too much about not being able to export, there are a few different ways around that. However, versions of Android are keeping on. And with the most recent update of Android I've (unfortunately) finally started getting notifications this app was built for an older version of Android. Turns out it's a _much_ older version of Android. I can't risk it crapping out due to compatibility issues. Huge bummer.

It is nice they are updating this app. However, there are a few things to iron out. I tried to use the new backup feature to get my keys to another phone, but I could not get it to work. I enter the password in the second phone and says password is invalid, and I find no documentation to sync using Google account. I tested restoring the backup on my phone and worked, but generating a copy of each entry, deleting a duplicate entry crashes the app. I look forward to see bug fixes in the future.

Loved the app until this update. Problem now is the screenshots show custom icons for each token, but there doesn't seem to be any way to configure them in the actual app. It's way easier to find the right token by the picture than by text, so right now the upgrade is really a downgrade for me, because it was working fine in the previous version...

What's new

Use Base32 library from apache commons
Backup: Skip restoring existing tokens
Improve backup and restore logging
Display RTL token code correctly
Fix Picasso crash with invalid image value
Ignore casing of token algorithm