2FA Authenticator (2FAS) Ratings and Reviews

Edit: Because of the developer’s response, I am changing my review from 4 stars to 5. This app has everything I am looking for- It is FOSS, it has a great user interface, you can import, export, cloud sync your seeds, and backup offline. You can also sort your seeds alphabetically or manually, which serves the same purpose as a “favorite” button. The fact that it is open source is a HUGE plus. Hopefully this app sticks around for a while and remains FOSS for the duration. If you need cross-platform non-mobile support, there is a browser extension too.

I’m searching for a Raivo replacement. 2fas is pretty good. It has a nice user interface and is intuitive to use. It doesn't have a lot of extras that would cause it to be less user friendly. I would suggest it with a slight caveat. One thing I like about Raivo is the way it uses standard zip files for its backup export. In that folder it creates to files; a json and a html. So, I can unzip the export on my computer and print either one for a paper backup I put in my safe. 2fas uses a .2fas file extension in its export. This means there isn’t a quick way change 2fa apps unless your next app choice has the ability to import a 2fas backup. Which by the way 2fas can import and/or gives instructions how to import from Google, Raivo, etc. which is pretty nice.

Thanks for the feedback, but there is a slight misunderstanding. The .2fas file our app generates is a .json file, therefore all the apps that support the .json files will be able to import our file without a problem. 😁

No account sign up required, lightweight, functional, good design, and iCloud sync so your tokens are securely backed up. There’s not much more to say. The app has frequent updates for new features/bug fixes. For example, I experienced the iPad Face ID bug, it was promptly fixed in a couple weeks. One suggestion, include an option (or make it the default option) to require Face ID authentication every time you open the app when it’s enabled. Right now, if you authenticate through Face ID, it allows anyone to open the app for an undisclosed amount of time. My current workaround is to force close the app after I copy my token. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for the feedback and the review! I'll forward what you said about Face ID to the dev team and we'll look into it. 😊

The reviews were perfect. Pointing out issues a new client will have and then addressing the issue turns this into a help feature. People need full service. The world that shunned technology is running this way. Let this be a lighthouse app. One that offers assistance to all the crazy people that don’t know that their adhd is preyed upon by ads. Showing the progress of the people and the issues they were having. Showing us the value of a place where sharp people are drawn to shore safely by shedding light on impending danger. I’m a flesh and blood, living, breathing human being. That means I’m weird, confused, and making progress because I made it here. For some people, this is progress. I am some people. I went ahead and shared the rough draft. However, this is my review of the comments since I haven’t decided on an app yep. Thanks in advance;) Give us an update of what can we look forward to in the wake of emerging technologies. Where can we get in front of the wave? Web Surfing in 2022.

In this day and age such reviews are very rare. You're a bicon of hope on the see of all boring reviews :) Hope you'll like our app too :)

This app has a nice UI, is intuitive and easy to use, and the file backup is a nice addition that I’ve only ever seen on computer apps or browser extensions. The biggest issue I have with it is that when I turn on Face ID, it doesn’t quite ask for the Face ID every time I open the app. If I want a protected app that asks for Face ID at all, it defeats the purpose for me if it doesn’t ask for my face even AFTER I TURN THE PHONE OFF AND TURN IT BACK ON. This is one of the hugest reasons that I deleted the app and opted for another authenticator app. The other reason is that I wish there was an option to omit an icon/badge/label altogether. This is picky, I know, but I either want every entry to have a logo icon or I want none of them to. And this app doesn’t have the ability to get rid of the icons.

Hi, thanks for the review. I'll forward the idea about no icons to the team, and I'm sure we will have it in future updates. Now the FaceID. If you use it to unlock your phone, it authorizes our app to unlock because your phone knows that you still have it in your hand and doesn't need additional unlocking. When FaceID unlock actually happens on our app, it's so fast that most of the time, it's almost unnoticeable. So it's Ios that authorizes our app, and we can't change the Ios system and fight against it is not wise. Please reconsider coming back to us! 😊

I was getting fed up with all of the cheap React Native and Cordova 2FA apps. Was about to write me own, how hard can it be? Did one more search to see if I could find something that was native iOS and supported iCloud, and tried this app out. IT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED! To the point, not always trying to sell me stuff, high quality native iOS, simple, and stores data on iCloud instead of some mysterious “just trust us 😉” third party service. I have only a single gripe, but extremely minor. Could you please make the 2FA codes collapse to hide until clicked on, and style each cell in the UITableView to be more like the bubble tiles seen on the App Store’s home view? You’re awesome!

Thank you! You'll be happy to hear that we are currently working on feature you've mentioned :)

The app is fabulous amongst apps in the same category. It is very easy to use.

But there are some improvements needed for those who manage a plenty of accounts. Accounts are usually added into different categories. However classifying them can only be done by clicking edit and then moving an account across the long list of accounts. It’s terrible!

If I click “edit” I can enter into detail page of each account in which we can change name, choose icon and etc. Would you mind make it possible to choose the category of an account in the detail page? Thanks.

Hey! Thanks for the review, we're thrilled you like it. Thanks for the feedback on the categories section, we're always looking to make everything more accessible and easy to navigate. We are planning to add something like that in future updates! :)

UPDATE: Watch app released! Changed to 5 stars.

I switched over from Authy last year. Love ALMOST everything about this app. The only thing missing is an Apple Watch app. Late last year the developers were saying the watch app would drop before the end of the year. Well obviously that didn’t happen. Seeing the responses to other reviews it looks as though the Watch app might not happen which is a huge let down. Almost all the other 2FA apps support the watch. That was one of my favorite features of Authy. But Authy has other serious issues. So the search for the perfect authenticator continues.

Thank you very much! And we’re as happy as you to finally have it in our app 😁

I upgraded my phone recently and when I opened the app all my tokens were gone despite the fact that “iCloud sync” was turned on. I even looked for the backup file myself on the phone and iCloud myself and couldn’t find the file to see if it was saved automatically (I never did it manually), and I couldn’t find anything. I literally panicked. In a last ditch effort, I had to UNSELECT iCloud sync and then RESELECTED it, and then, all my tokens came back. This has never happen before (I’ve upgraded the phone multiple times). Just thought I’d pass this on to others if this happens to you. I don’t know if this is a glitch or what but it made me mad as I thought I was screwed. Oh yeah—- made multiple copies of the backup file now! 😳😳

Restoring everything from iCloud, especially on a new phone, may sometime take quite a lot of time, and possibly in this situation, our app was pushed down to the bottom of the list. We have tested everything multiple times, and all the codes always come back. Your approach just "forced" the phone to do it immediately.

I like pretty much everything about your app. BUT, the exporting options are not the best. I understand you can change the .2fas extension to .json and manually recover your secrets, but this is tedious and lame. It seems a tad shady you don’t allow for plain text, or for another more common file extension export. Like, maybe you’re trying to lock people in… 🤔

EDIT 1 (After dev reply): the first thing I tried was importing a .2FAS>.json tokens file into ente. It failed with zero entries imported. I suppose this could be an error in ente, but I just burned out on experimenting. If I’m doing something wrong, I’ll be more than happy to edit my review and give you a better rating. ✌🏼

Hi there! The first important thing is that the .2fas file is a .json file so there's no need to change anything since it will work just as any .json file would. We chose the .json file as the export method because it is the universal file type that every other app accepts. So we don't try to "lock people" just give them the universal option.

But thank you for the feedback, I'll relate that to the team and we'll talk about it. 😁✌️

Thanks a lot I now have to spend hours trying to get back into my account. This 2A stuff was awesome when the stupid app didn’t just decide to delete all my keys.
—response to developers questions of did I do anything. No that I’m aware of. Same phone hadn’t changed anything . Thought everything was backed up to the cloud.
Only thing I can think of is I did open it on my iPad apps are synced to download to all my devices, was thinking I could use in two places and also wanted to know I had a way to use if my phone was un available? After opening on iPad there was nothing there so went back to phone and then there was nothing on either phone or iPad. Also there was nothing stored in iCloud which I thought was supposed to be so I could back up if I got a new phone?

Hi, the first we recommend is to check the Trash within the app to see if the codes aren't there. If not, we'll need the logs of the app to find out what exactly happened.