Azokle Auth vs Authy
Authy mandates a phone number for account creation and stores all your TOTP seeds on Twilio's cloud servers. Authy shutting down or locking your account means losing your 2FA access. Azokle Auth requires nothing and stores nothing in the cloud.
Feature-By-Feature Matrix
The Empirical Privacy Proof
Verified evidence derived from RFC standards, source audits, and official privacy policies.
Authy Stores Your Seeds on Twilio's Servers
Authy's core value proposition is multi-device sync — but this means your TOTP secret keys are encrypted and uploaded to Twilio's cloud. You're trusting Twilio's security forever.
Azokle Auth's architecture makes cloud storage architecturally impossible — there is no server, no account, no API. Seeds are stored exclusively in the hardware-backed Android Keystore or iOS Secure Enclave.
Phone Number = Permanent Surveillance Vector
Authy requires a verified phone number to create an account. This creates a persistent identity link between your phone number and every service where you use 2FA.
Azokle Auth requires no account, no phone number, no email. Download and use. Your identity is your device — nothing else.
Account Suspension = 2FA Lockout
Multiple users have reported Authy account suspensions (for TOS violations or fraud signals) resulting in complete loss of access to all their 2FA-protected accounts.
With Azokle Auth, your codes live on your device. There is no account to suspend, no service to go offline. As long as your device works, your 2FA works.
Closed Source Encryption — Unverifiable Claims
Authy claims seeds are encrypted before upload with a "backup password," but this code is not open source and has never been independently audited.
Azokle Auth's encryption implementation is open source and uses Android Keystore / iOS Secure Enclave — hardware security modules that Apple and Google themselves rely on.
Authy trades privacy for convenience. Mandatory phone numbers, cloud-stored seeds, and the ever-present risk of account suspension make Authy a poor choice for security-conscious users. Azokle Auth gives you everything Authy offers (reliable 2FA) without the cloud dependency, phone number requirement, or closed-source trust requirement.
“Your 2FA shouldn't depend on a phone number or a company's goodwill.”