Archive note: This launch post is retained for project history. Product details and availability have changed since it was first published.

It is here. After almost two years of work, Authier reached the point where we could run the service in production and invite people outside the team to try it.

Our GitHub CI was green. Reaching production after almost two years had been both a blast and a toil.

The idea started with a frustration: secure login tools often make the common path feel harder than it needs to be. We wanted the transparency of an open-source password manager, the convenience of strong browser autofill, and a clearer role for devices in account security.

Built by two people, in public

I brought the original idea, but Authier would not have reached a usable state without @sleaper. Turning a security-sensitive prototype into an extension, mobile client, backend, and deployment pipeline required far more than a good concept.

Publishing the source was not a launch flourish. It was part of the premise: users and researchers should be able to inspect how credentials are encrypted, how a device is approved, and how the service changes over time.

Launch was the beginning

Authier remains a young project. It does not have the audit history or product breadth of established password managers. The work after launch has focused on modernizing the backend, rebuilding the web vault, improving device flows, and keeping browser extensions current.

If that direction interests you, the best place to follow it is the public GitHub repository.

What the old homepage recorded

The original site embedded two posts from 20 June 2023. In the first, Capaj described using Authier as a primary password manager for several months, highlighted its autofill on Google’s multi-step login, and noted that the Chrome extension also ran in Kiwi Browser on Android. The second announced an iOS App Store build.

Those posts remain part of the project history, not a current compatibility guarantee. Kiwi Browser is now archived, the old iOS listing is not part of the current download page, and Authier’s supported public paths are the store links on the download page.