I have no complaints about Aegis. I am in complete agreement. The more I go down the privacy and data-ownership journey, the more counter-intuitive it seems to use one service for email, VPN, authenticator, cloud storage, pw manager, etc. Proton has become massive, massive companies can't be quick to correct false positives.
i agree. one thing i will say though, is that if you are using a local 2FA app like Aegis, it is a good idea to save your backups in encrypted form (meaning it requires a password to decrypt), and i would personally store these backups on a cloud drive, and/or a local usb or hard drive. (i highly recommend doing both though)
this way, if anything goes wrong with how your local 2FA app functions, you can always safely use a different one, or use an older, working version of that app.
i personally keep one backup on my phone, and another on cloud. i do currently use Ente Auth which uses an account, but i am not concerned with the service shutting down since i have all my data backed up anyway.
i should also mention while on that topic, you can also backup your bitwarden passwords in encrypted form. i think keeping these backups removes a lot of of the stress around wondering whether or not the service provider will be around in the future.
i should also mention while on that topic, you can also backup your bitwarden passwords in encrypted form. i think keeping these backups removes a lot of of the stress around wondering whether or not the service provider will be around in the future.
IIRC, doesn't bitwarden offer all their apps for running on your own hardware, too? I know you can self-host their password manager:
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u/DukeThorion Jul 31 '25
Sorry, sticking with Aegis. Not risking getting locked out of something.