This is the best summary I could come up with:
An updated support page spotted by Bleeping Computer says Authy’s app on Windows, macOS, and Linux will go away in August 2024.
However, Authy is one of the only 2FA apps available for desktop, making it an ideal choice when you want to sign into an account on your computer without having to get out your phone.
If you have a Mac with M1 or M2 silicon, Authy says you’ll still be able to download the iOS version of the app on your device.
Otherwise, Authy recommends switching to the mobile version instead, which you can automatically sync with the app on your computer.
If you’d rather switch apps altogether, it’s worth noting that Authy doesn’t come with an export feature.
Twilio says it made the decision to sunset its desktop app to “streamline our focus and provide more value on existing product solutions for which we see increasing demand.” The company laid off 5 percent of workers in December 2023, and it just announced on Monday that it has replaced its CEO.
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Spent an hour last night moving to 2FAS. Authy doesn’t make it easy – unlike their competitors, they don’t offer an export feature.
But you found a way. How?
Literally went to every site in Authy and removed 2FA and then re-added it with the new app.
Yeah, this is going to be a pain in the ass. At least I have until summer.
2FAS
It launched an NFT based donation program: https://2fas.com/donate/
and it is not available on F-Droid.
I’d go with Aegis for an App on Android, or a Bitwarden/KeepassXC password manager which can both handle 2fa tokens too.
If you use Linux then OTPClient works great with Aegis since it can open Aegis export files directly. I’ve set up Aegis to make an export whenever I change something, I sync the exports automatically to my PC, and I open them with OTPClient there.
OTPClient can ask for the export password each time you open it and will close itself automatically if it’s not used for a while.
You can also use it to export the 2FA codes further in various formats, show the QR code for any of them, and all kinds of useful features like that.
Aegis is great.
You can download it straight from their GitHub, or presumably using Obtainium:
https://github.com/twofas/2fas-android/releases/latest
But wow, those NFTs. It’s cute that they’re trying to create an incentive for donation, and I appreciate that whoever they outsourced that project to, they (allegedly) employed and artist and not a machine to make the components of the artwork… But it would have been a lot less cringe if they had done it in-house and not thrown it onto a blockchain (all use of one validates their use and helps create “value” for them, after all.)
I don’t like the thought of having my passwords and 2FA live in the same place - that seems to miss the point a bit.
You can have 2 different keys DB on keepassXC with different passwords, you can even try to save them in separate remote locations. The key points are data interoperability over different devices and its portability over different services, because the worst thing that can happen is that your favourite app, from where you cannot use or move your credentials elsewhere (like the Steam Guard app for instance), one day might stop working suddenly leaving you unable to access your accounts.
Twilio, Authy’s parent company, is also moving Authy’s customer support hub to the help center on Twilio’s website after January 15th, 2024.
Twilio says it made the decision to sunset its desktop app to “streamline our focus and provide more value on existing product solutions for which we see increasing demand.” The company laid off 5 percent of workers in December 2023, and it just announced on Monday that it has replaced its CEO.
Yeah these are absolutely things healthy companies that aren’t in danger of going out of business do.
Sigh…
Authy desktop was extremely useful when my phone broke during an international trip, and getting a new one obviously took some time due to well… being abroad.
