Aegis Authenticator vs Ente Auth Comparison

The secrets live in a vault file on the phone. The app has no internet permission and no account, so there is no copy with the developers. Setup offers a password by default; choosing no password leaves the vault unencrypted on the phone.

On the device, the codes are encrypted with a key kept in the system's secure storage. With an Ente account, the app encrypts every code before upload with keys that, by Ente's documentation, only your password or recovery key can unlock, so Ente's servers hold only encrypted copies. That is Ente's statement: an outside audit has checked Ente's server, not the Auth apps.

Automatic backups are off until you switch them on and pick a folder, which can belong to a cloud app on the phone. Android's own cloud backup can also include the vault after you switch it on. Both work only with a password-protected vault and use your password or a separate backup password. Android's direct phone-to-phone transfer is always allowed to include the vault.

The first screen offers Sign up and Log in, with Use without backups as a smaller option below them. With an account, an encrypted copy syncs to Ente. Without one, codes stay on that device only; automatic daily backup files, protected by a password you set, are off until you switch them on. Ente says device transfers and system backups do not count as a backup for offline codes.

There is no account and no sign-up; the app works fully offline.

An Ente account, which needs an email address and a password, is used only for the encrypted copy and sync. Without it the app works offline; the desktop apps and the Android app downloaded from GitHub may still contact Ente to check for updates.

The Google Play listing gives Beem Development's contact address in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The app has no servers and holds no user data with the developers, so the jurisdiction matters little for the secrets themselves.

Ente Technologies, Inc. has been a US corporation since 2022; its terms are governed by Delaware law, with a notice address in Dover, Delaware. Ente's privacy policy says its servers and hosting partners are in Europe and that personal information may be accessed from or transferred to the US.

Beem Development is the developer name on Google Play, F-Droid and the website. Most of the code on GitHub comes from two developers, and the project is funded by donations; no company registration is named on the project's pages.

Ente was started in 2020 by its founders and says it is funded by customer subscriptions, not venture capital. Since July 2026 it publishes its revenue and customer counts.

The README and F-Droid link a donation page; there is no paid version.

Auth earns no money of its own. Ente pays for it from subscriptions to its photo storage service and asks people who want to support Auth to subscribe there; at launch in 2022 it said existing users would keep Auth for free if it ever became paid.