Hey everyone, three things shipped at once this time.

🍎 Mac: now on the Mac App Store

The Mac app is out. Same idea as everywhere else: your vault stays on your own devices, no account, no cloud of mine. Version 1.3 brings it level with Windows:

• Settings that match Windows, the same in the main window and with ⌘,

• Duress password (Pro): a second password that opens a harmless sample vault if you're ever forced to unlock

• Auto-lock can count computer activity or vault activity, your choice

• Ask before copying a 2FA code

• Open documents stored in the vault in their default app

• Automatic backups as you save, and you choose how many to keep

• Backup schedule and a weekly restore test in Settings › Backups

• Your own quick access shortcut

• Help links right in Settings

🪟 Windows 0.4.12

• New pricing: Pro is US$29.99, paid once. Every update after that is free. If you already bought Pro, you keep it. The free plan holds 7 items.

• Windows passkeys: LocalGateKeys can save and use passkeys for any app or browser on Windows 11, with Windows Hello.

• AI agents (Pro): Claude Code and other agents can sign in or run a command with your API keys, only after you approve that exact request. Your passwords never leave your PC, and every login an agent used shows up in Password health until you change it.

• Network activity: the Security center lists every connection the app makes to the internet.

• Backup restore test: check that your newest backup really opens, without touching your vault.

• Password change assistant: opens the right change-password page for weak, reused or breached logins.

• Several vaults (Pro), a printable vault health report, shares that expire after 1 hour or open once, and a new Estate pack template.

• Emergency access without an account, and a duress password (Pro).

• Quick search palette (Ctrl+Alt+K), an account menu right under the login field in the browser, and warnings for lookalike sites.

• Imports Credential Exchange (CXF) files. Key file and YubiKey unlock (optional).

• Command line in the Store version too.

📱 iPhone 1.3

• Duress password (Pro)

• Wi-Fi sync hosted on the iPhone (Pro): sync without needing a PC

• Answer emergency access requests right from your phone

• Export to a CXF file

• Restore test now also checks a computer's full backup

• iPad: wider item list, and 2FA badges on rows

All updates are rolling out through the App Store and Microsoft Store now. Get them at https://localgatekeys.app/download

As always, bug reports and ideas are welcome here. Thanks for sticking around!

Hey everyone, here's where things stand.

Short version: most of the big list is built, and it's in testing now.

Built, in testing for the next update:

Pricing change. Pro becomes $29.99 one time, and every update after that is free. There won't be a paid "v2" later. The free version goes from 4 items to 7. If you already bought Pro at $4.99, you keep it for life with every future update.

Passkeys for all of Windows. LocalGateKeys can be your passkey provider in Windows itself, not only in the browser extension.

Quick search palette and inline menu on Windows. A shortcut opens a search box from anywhere. The extension also gets a small menu right inside login fields.

Widgets on iPhone and Android. Pin your 2FA codes to the home screen. Android also gets a quick settings tile. The widget locks itself again after a short time.

Shared collections (Pro). Share a group of items with family or a partner. It syncs the same way the rest of your vault does, with no server of mine in between.

Emergency access (Pro). Choose someone who can request access to your vault if something happens to you. You get a waiting period to say no before they're let in.

Duress password (Pro). A second password that opens a harmless decoy vault if you're ever forced to unlock in front of someone.

Phishing guard. You get a warning when a page looks like a site you've saved but isn't.

Move your data in and out with the new standard format (CXF). This is the new format password managers are adopting for moving vaults between apps. You can import and export it.

Windows and Android are tested. I'm still finishing checks on Mac before the release goes out.

Next up:

A power-user pack:

Test-restore a backup without touching your real vault

A helper that opens a site's change-password page for you

Multiple vaults (free gets 1, Pro gets unlimited)

A vault health report with no secrets in it

Shares that expire on their own

Share Wi-Fi with a QR code

An estate pack template for the people you leave behind

AI agent gate. Let an AI agent sign in somewhere for you, but only after you approve it each time. The agent never sees the password. This one touches security, so I'm taking it slow.

Dropped :

Linux is on hold. I'd rather finish what's above properly.

Wear OS widget is dropped for now.

Offline breach list. The download was big and didn't add enough. Breach checks stay opt-in and online, using the private k-anonymity method, so your passwords never leave your device.

As always: no account, no cloud of mine, no tracking.

What do you want to see first in the power-user pack? And if there's something you're missing that isn't on the list, tell me below.