Open Desktop Authenticator
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Open Desktop Authenticator, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Open Desktop Authenticator's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Windows and Linux desktop app · no ODA account or subscription |
The facts
Each one read from Open Desktop Authenticator's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- ODA is aimed at people who manage Steam accounts and maFile backups on a PC and want a desktop authenticator workflow.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Automatic confirmations
- Optional automatic confirmation is limited to trades and market listings; account-recovery confirmations cannot be enabled for automatic handling.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Confirmation risk
- Automatic confirmation is off by default and can approve eligible item sales, so the maker recommends enabling it only when the convenience is worth the risk.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Download verification
- The maker publishes checksums and build provenance; GitHub Windows downloads are signed and timestamped, while Linux packages do not carry a platform code signature.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Encrypted backup
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Encrypted vault
- The local vault derives a key from the passphrase using scrypt and encrypts data with AES-256-GCM.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- ODA sends requested Steam operations to Valve and offers an in-app browser with Steam-domain login cookies; the maker says ODA has no integration or shared account with its other product, Master Panel.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Local storage
- ODA says it has no backend, account system, cloud sync, or telemetry, and stores the vault on the user's machine.checked 12 Oct 2026
- New authenticator
- Users can enroll a Steam account that does not already have an authenticator, following Steam's activation challenge in the app.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ODA provides Steam Guard codes and desktop trade and market confirmations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- SDA import
- It imports existing Steam Desktop Authenticator .maFile accounts, including encrypted files with their manifest.json.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security limits
- The maker says builds are not yet reproducible and ODA has not had an independent security audit.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Users can report bugs and documentation issues without creating an account, and the maker provides separate private channels for vulnerability reports.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Multi-device sync
- Nochecked 21 Sep 2026
- Platforms
- The download page lists x64 and ARM64 Windows installers, a portable Windows x64 build, and x64 Linux AppImage and Debian packages, with no macOS build published.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows,Linuxchecked 21 Sep 2026
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