If proprietary app is better and more robust I am willing to try it and assess it myself.

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      Yep, it works perfectly

      Bitwarden has it too, but eggs in one basket etc.

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      Thank you!

      I’d been a happy user of andOTP for many years, unaware until now that it had been abandoned and that I therefore needed ro replace it. I looked through the recommendations posted here and came to the conclusion that Aegis indeed was the best recommendation.

      Migrating from andOTP to Aegis by exporting an encrypted backup file from andOTP to the local filesystem and importing it in Aegis worked flawlessly.

      One thing that I really liked in andOTP that Aegis doesn’t have was the PGP export, it was just very nice to get encrypted backup files that I could decrypt directly using standard software that I already have and know how to use, entirely independent from any particular app. Aegis instead provides the decrypt.py script to decode and decrypt its own encrypted backup file format and while I’ve tested and verified that this works fine, simply using standard PGP was nicer.

      But that’s a minor detail. All in all, Aegis seems to do everything I need, and does it well.

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      This is the best option. Love the app. But always remember to keep a backup of your tokens.

      There is also ente.io authenticator app. It is available on fdroid. I think it supoorts cloud synchronisation as well.

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    I’d suggest the following

    The really important step is to make sure to export and backup your 2FA codes in a safe place.

    You don’t want to be left in the mud because you lost or wiped your phone that contains the only method to get into your important accounts.

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      I don’t think that it’s safe to leave both authentication factors in a single app.

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        It depends on your risk profile, but yes, it’s less secure. For some people the convenience is worth the risk, for others maybe not. If you opt to store 2fa keys in Bitwarden you’d definitely want to enable 2fa for your Bitwarden account though, which brings us back to the same issue again.

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          If you opt to store 2fa keys in Bitwarden you’d definitely want to enable 2fa for your Bitwarden account though, which brings us back to the same issue again.

          With the risk of getting locked out if all your devices get logged out of Bitwarden! 🙈

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            To clarify, you’d want to enable 2fa for Bitwarden and store the token for that in a different authenticator app - that way you can still log in to Bitwarden without already needing to be logged in

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    I personally use KeePassXC (KeePassDX on android), it can have TOTP code generation for 2FA for any service. And since it’s a password manager, it’s secured by a master password.

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    aegis is great, but 2fas has Google Drive sync and a browser extension.
    lack of sync is a dealbreaker for me.