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Share a long password by sharing 4 digits instead

crosspass.app

The product's website says:

   Free to receive

   It is always free to receive the passwords and notes which you send, so that the process has no barriers for your recipients.

   You can send three passwords for free. After that there is a one-time fee of $1 to continue sending.

OK, there is no mention of this on the Apple App Store, and if this is verbatim true, it's the first time I have seen a one-time fee (unlimited use?) for an app. But it does put it in the "free" category.

The app store web page for it says "iphone only" but lists iphone, ipod touch and vision (No Ipad?)

It is available on the app store viewed on an ipad, and not on the mac app store at all.

Developer is being done a disservice by Apple because a search for crosspass on the app store substitutes crosspath, showing up to 32 dating apps, and making your click on "crosspass" as if you really meant crosspath.

Hey, I'm Boris, the founder of Entelechia Inc. in which the app is housed. When I just published the app on Apple, it came up first when searching for string "Crosspass," but after a couple of months that stopped working and the only way to find it is to search for "Crosspass by Entelechia". The good news is that typing Crosspass in Google search gives the website as the first result.

Now, about your other questions. I wanted to limit the app only to a phone, because a phone is almost always online, either via Cellular or Wifi. Also, the UX is designed for a mobile screen not for the larger iPad screen. For these reasons mid-way I had to cut iPad support. (I need to remove iPod and vision, thanks for the heads up.)

About free cost and a one-time payment for senders: I didn't like the subscription model because I just wanted people to pay once for the app and never pay again. However, I didn't want to have two apps, one for senders that costs a dollar, and another for recipients that's free. Having two apps named almost the same would confuse the recipients. Therefore, it just had to be one app and I decided to use the in-app purchase method.

how does docker and git do it? their hashes are 32 characters iirc, but most commands work fine with 4-5 characters of that hash

A password and a hash are fundamentally different concepts... Your comment makes absolutely no sense in this context.

This is true as long as there are no other hashes that begin with those 4-5 characters.

The lookup ID is 4 letters, case-insensitive. The PIN is 4 digits. I did it this way for reasons of symmetry and to make it easy to tell it by voice. A github hash is much harder, since it's alphanumeric, case sensitive.

Also, the lookup ID doesn't have any digits in order to make it distinguished from the PIN. The whole effort is to make this as user friendly as possible.

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