It does require a developer account at $100 a year, yes. But that's it: Once you have that, the app is not time-limited or anything. I can just install it to my device (wirelessly) via Xcode and I'm done.

It's probably only worth the $100/year if there are other apps you want to make for yourself though. I have other ideas for apps for my family, so I figured it's worth the cost. It sucks that I have to pay at all though, I admit.

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deaux 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's interesting - I thought apps that didn't go through the App Store but were in "developer mode" were time-limited, but maybe I confused it with "share with family" rather than pure personal solo use.

Sounds like you wrote it in Swift(?), did it also do a good job at the autofill code? That's what I'd expect it to potentially struggle at, as it could be a rare and particularly native feature. But then the APIs should be well standardized for iOS.

Very cool and inspiring stuff!

	▲	ninkendo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The autofill code is actually Safari's, not the password manager. The password manager basically just needs to impmlement ASCredentialProviderViewController (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...) and include the "AutoFill Credential Provider" entitlement and safari will ask if you want to sign in with Kenpass for websites and apps. For firefox (desktop) it's a bit harder, you have to actually implement login box detection. It works like half the time, but I don't really mind much, because it's not a huge deal to just use the clipboard. Even when using 1Password I would so often find that the password autofill was so broken (or would constantly offer me to save passwords I don't want to, or for things that aren't even login boxes) that I actually actively hated it. When creating logins, I much prefer taking an explicit step to activate my password manager to do so, and when prompting for logging in, it's not a huge deal to simply copy/paste when the simple detection doesn't work.