PassPony: Git Password Manager

Name: PassPony: Git Password Manager
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Kevin Stewart

Open source pass and passage

Only for iPhone

Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.

1 Rating
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

Kevin Stewart
Language

EN
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Size

24.3
MB

iPhone

Open-source password manager for pass and passage stores. New in 2.1: RSA keys for pass stores, a cleaner design, and clearer messages when something fails. PassPony is a password manager for people who want to own their passwords. Every entry is one encrypted file in a store you control, in the same format as the pass and passage command line tools. Your Mac, your server, and your phone can all work on the same store. WHY A FILE-BASED STORE One entry, one file: the password on the first line, anything else after it. Encrypted with your keys: age identities for passage stores, OpenPGP keys for pass stores. Synced with git over HTTPS or SSH: clone your existing store, publish a new one, and resolve conflicts per entry, never with a silent merge. Interoperable: commits match the pass CLI format, so the store stays fully usable from the desktop tools. EVERYDAY USE AutoFill: your passwords appear above the keyboard when you sign in. Only entry names are indexed; nothing decrypts until you fill. Passkeys: save a passkey for a site and sign in with it. It lives in that site's entry, encrypted with your keys, and syncs like everything else. One-time codes: TOTP with a countdown ring, HOTP counters, and import from an authenticator app's export QR codes. Face ID or Touch ID unlock, with a five-minute grace window shared with AutoFill. Ephemeral clipboard: copies are local only and clear after 45 seconds. Field-level editing that preserves the exact bytes of lines it does not touch. YOUR KEYS STAY YOURS Back up every key on your phone to one file locked with a recovery code, and restore it on a new phone. SSH sync uses a key made on your phone or imported; hosts are trusted on first use and a changed host key is refused. Phones that share a store each add their own public key to it when they sync, and you approve every new key before your entries are re-encrypted for it. Secret keys never leave a device. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account, no signup, no PassPony server. The only network connection is the git remote you configure. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Open source, Apache-2.0. The full app and its Rust core are published in a public git repository for anyone to audit. FORMATS passage stores encrypt with modern age identities. pass stores encrypt with OpenPGP keys (Cv25519 and X25519/Ed25519 in software). RSA-keyed stores need a smartcard, which is not supported yet. Each format keeps its own store; switching never touches the other. Localized in English, Spanish, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. If you already run pass or passage, PassPony is the missing phone half of your setup. If you have never used them, the first-run tour will have you adding your first pass in about a minute.

Ratings & Reviews

5.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Bug: unable to decrypt
Sep 13
burnsac100
I have tried everything that I can think of to resolve this issue. I will continue to try to figure it out. I have my git repo cloned and my keys imported. However, when trying to decrypt a file, I get an error saying that the decryption failed. I'm unsure if this app expects a binary format (.gpg), because mine are plain text (.asc)I also tried a brand new store. I import a key file and it is visible there. I am unable to initialize the store. It says I need to import a key. I try to add an entry, it doesn't appear.

Developer Response
Thanks for writing this up. Until now, pass mode on iOS could only use Curve25519 keys. RSA keys and a few other types, which many gpg setups use, imported without complaint but couldn't actually be used. If your key is one of those, that explains all three things you saw: the cloned store wouldn't decrypt, Initialize store kept asking for a key you had already imported, and the entry you added never appeared because the save failed and the screen closed without telling you. Your .asc files weren't the issue. Armored keys and entries both work.PassPony 2.1, which is with Apple for review now, adds RSA support for pass stores, including passphrase-protected keys and entries written by newer GnuPG versions. Add and Edit now stay open and show the error if a save fails, so if something else is going on, the app will say what. If it still doesn't work after you update, email NorseHorse@norsehor.se with your key type and I'll look into it.
Bug: unable to decrypt
Sep 13
burnsac100

I have tried everything that I can think of to resolve this issue. I will continue to try to figure it out. I have my git repo cloned and my keys imported. However, when trying to decrypt a file, I get an error saying that the decryption failed. I'm unsure if this app expects a binary format (.gpg), because mine are plain text (.asc)I also tried a brand new store. I import a key file and it is visible there. I am unable to initialize the store. It says I need to import a key. I try to add an entry, it doesn't appear.
Developer Response 2d ago
Thanks for writing this up. Until now, pass mode on iOS could only use Curve25519 keys. RSA keys and a few other types, which many gpg setups use, imported without complaint but couldn't actually be used. If your key is one of those, that explains all three things you saw: the cloned store wouldn't decrypt, Initialize store kept asking for a key you had already imported, and the entry you added never appeared because the save failed and the screen closed without telling you. Your .asc files weren't the issue. Armored keys and entries both work.PassPony 2.1, which is with Apple for review now, adds RSA support for pass stores, including passphrase-protected keys and entries written by newer GnuPG versions. Add and Edit now stay open and show the error if a save fails, so if something else is going on, the app will say what. If it still doesn't work after you update, email NorseHorse@norsehor.se with your key type and I'll look into it.

PassPony 2.1 RSA keys: pass stores encrypted to RSA keys now open on iPhone, and new entries are saved to them too. Passphrase-protected keys, keys exported with only their subkeys, and entries written by recent GnuPG versions also work. Design: a plainer look in PassPony orange, menus in place of cramped segmented controls, and clear messages when a store can't be opened or something can't be saved. Fixes: choosing the pass (OpenPGP) format before importing a key no longer crashes the app. Initialize store now lists RSA keys instead of saying no key has been imported. Adding or editing an entry no longer closes the screen when the save fails. It stays open and says why.

Version 2.1.0 1d ago

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Seller: Kevin Stewart
Size: 24.3 MB
Category: Utilities
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Languages: English and 6 more

English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
Age Rating: 4+

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