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Well, with all the positive vibes about Ente, it lacks 1 very important feature: backup code for manual restore. They only offer the option to export either plain text or an encrypted file that I have no idea how to decrypt.

And the Mac companion was a very useful feature that nobody had done before.

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Actually Raivo OTP had a Mac companion app too. Two of them even. One that acted as the same OTP app as mobile, and one that somehow synced the clipboard when copying an OTP code on your mobile app, so it was immediately available on the Mac.

I always assumed that last one was redundant with Continuity that does exactly the same thing, natively, on the Mac though...

> one that somehow synced the clipboard when copying an OTP code on your mobile app, so it was immediately available on the Mac.

Iphones and macs already do that (syncing their clipboards) as long as they are on the same network or sth. It usually works when they are on the same wifi, or if the iphone is connected to the mac through usb.

It's via Bluetooth when they're both logged into the same iCloud account.

yes if you had read my next sentence, I did call out that feature from Raivo as being redundant...

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Lockdown (the TOTP app, not the VPN/firewall app) has both, but it is essentially abandonware now. I wrote my own exporter for it:

https://blog.majid.info/lockdown-export/

Here is how you can decrypt the encrypted file: https://help.ente.io/auth/migration-guides/export#how-to-use...

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