Ente Auth is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted TOTP 2FA authenticator built by Ente Technologies, Inc., the same company behind the published Ente Photos entity, and part of the same public monorepo and shared Privacy Policy. Its own homepage states Auth can be used entirely offline and without an account, or with end-to-end encrypted cloud backups it describes as externally audited; the company's Privacy Policy (governed by Delaware, US law, last updated June 15, 2026) states it collects and stores only the bare minimum information necessary to operate the service, does not collect in-app usage analytics, anonymizes any crash reports, and does not sell personal information. The company's public GitHub README states the shared source code and cryptography underlying all of Ente's apps, including Auth, have been externally audited by Cure53, Symbolic Software, and Fallible, and the codebase is published under the AGPL-3.0 license. Per the plan's anchoring instruction, this dossier is scored within +/-6 of the published ente-photos per-pillar subscores (collection 78, tracking_tech 78, sharing 85, ownership_transparency 58, track_record 72) except where Auth's own evidence genuinely diverges, which is noted explicitly below.
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8 new sources on file for Ente Auth.
Ente Auth's file gained 8 new sourced claims since its last review.
Ente Auth's own product page advertises that the app can be used entirely in an offline mode without cloud backups, and separately without creating an account at all — a lower-collection usage mode than Ente Photos, which requires an account to store the media it backs up.
Ente's company-wide Privacy Policy, which governs Auth as one of Ente's apps, states the company collects and stores only the bare minimum amount of information necessary to fulfill its role as a service provider, and separately lists the categories collected: email address, referral details, communications, public keys, anonymized crash reports, server logs, device/IP/user-agent identifiers, and third-party payment invoices — explicitly excluding credit card or bank information.
Ente's public GitHub README states the monorepo contains all of the company's source code for its apps, explicitly naming Ente Auth (described as 'a 2FA alternative to the deprecated Authy') alongside Ente Photos and Ente Locker as products built on the same open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform.
Ente's Privacy Policy states that for US residents, the laws of the State of Delaware, United States apply to use of Ente's Services, consistent with the Delaware incorporation already documented for the published Ente Technologies, Inc. entity that also operates Ente Photos.
Ente Auth's own product page states the app provides end-to-end encrypted cloud backups for 2FA tokens so the operator cannot read them, and states its cryptography has been externally audited.
Ente's public GitHub README states the source code and cryptography shared across all of Ente's apps, including Auth, have been externally audited by three named firms: Cure53 (Germany), Symbolic Software (France), and Fallible (India).
Ente's Privacy Policy states the company does not collect analytics about how users use the app's features, and that any crash reports collected are anonymized.