OpenKeychain: Easy PGP

Encrypt your Files and Communications. Compatible with the OpenPGP Standard.

OpenKeychain: Easy PGP

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By: Hardware Security SDK

Users: 750,906

1.50K

Rating: 4.09

(4,204)

0.04

Version: 6.0.4 (Last updated: 2024-03-01)

Creation date: 2013-01-16

Email: pl*****@openkeychain.org

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage

Camera: take pictures and videos

Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections

Other:

view network connections
full network access
control Near Field Communication
read sync settings
run at startup
prevent device from sleeping
toggle sync on and off

Ranking

# 70,145 ▼ 60

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#12 in encrypt keyword 25

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App summary

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OpenKeychain helps you communicate more privately and securely. It uses encryption to ensure that your messages can be read only by the people you send them to, others can send you messages that only you can read, and these messages can be digitally signed so the people getting them are sure who sent them. OpenKeychain is based on the well established OpenPGP standard making encryption compatible across your devices and systems. For a list of compatible software for Windows, Mac OS, and other operating systems consult http://openpgp.org/software/.

Modern encryption is based on digital “keys”. OpenKeychain stores and manages your keys, and those of the people you communicate with, on your Android smartphone. It also helps you find others’ keys online, and exchange keys. But its most frequent use is in using those keys to encrypt and decrypt messages.

★ Integration with other Apps:
• K-9 Mail
• Conversations
• and many more…

★ Open Source: OpenKeychain is designed to be trustworthy. It’s Free Software with no secrets; anyone can examine and validate every bit of it (Source code available at https://github.com/open-keychain/open-keychain)

★ Independent Security Audit: The auditing company Cure53 performed an intensive security audit of OpenKeychain. The security experts summarize their final result with "[...] none of the spotted issues were considered to be of a critical severity in terms of security implications. The latter is a significant and impressive result for an app of this complexity and relevance."

★ Permissions: Because OpenKeychain is Free Software, anyone can validate that the permissions are indeed only required for the listed features.
• In-app purchases: Donate to the developers
• Identity: Pre-fill name and email addresses
• Contacts: Connect keys to your contacts (only offline)
• Photos/Media/Files: Import/export keys from SD card
• Camera: Scan QR Codes to add other people's keys
• Others: Internet permission to retrieve keys, NFC permission to use YubiKeys

Starting with Android 6, permissions are requested when required in-app!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Great for creating PGP keys and has a simple interface.
Automatically uses strong encryption.
Works well in conjunction with K-9 Mail and YubiKey.
Users find it helpful for PGP encryption tasks.

Cons

Unreliable with frequent bugs, particularly with clipboard functionality.
User interface is considered unintuitive and confusing.
Has limited functionality for decrypting and verifying signed messages.
Crashes frequently after updates, leading to app stability issues.

Most mentioned

Clipboard issues
Problems with decryption
Unintuitive user interface
Frequent crashes

User reviews

HONEST REVIEW: This app is seriously unreliable. Sometimes decryting doesnot works, sometimes importing keys from files or from cliboard doesnt works. Yesterday, I tried in every possible way to decrypt my file but nothing worked. But today, everything is working perfectly. Even clipboard issue also gone.It happens every week. The App has serious ammount of bugs. If you encrypt ur file somehow,, There is completely no guarentee that you will decrypt them ever again even if your keys r correct.

Nasreen Akter Kushum, 2024-11-18

DOES NOT WORK. It USED to work when I used it a year or two ago. I thought it was amazing because it was so fast and easy. But now it doesn't encrypt anything, ive gone in to every setting and tried to change everything I possibly could, even tried it on a different phone! It say its working all fine. But at the end it will only add a signature at the bottom of the text that you want to encrypt. Will not actually encrypt your text. Even though it says it did!

Noah Hill, 2024-10-03

Great app for creating pgp keys. Simple interface and easily create new keys. I also appreciate how it automatically uses the strongest encryption available. However, I would appreciate the option to choose encryption ciper and strength. I never would have known it uses the strongest encryption unless I inspected the key after making it. The option during setup is just not there, and that's a little disconcerting. I guess I'VE just been spoiled by kleopatra on PC....