Indie App Spotlight: ‘Access’ is the missing piece to Apple’s new Passwords app

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Access is a great companion app to Apple’s new Passwords app, allowing users to securely store sensitive information such as card numbers, gift cards, license keys, and anything else you’d like to keep secure that isn’t necessarily a password.

Top features

Access allows you to store payment cards, bank accounts, IDs, various documents, drivers licenses, insurance cards, passports, certificates, rewards cards, gift cards, software license keys, and more. While other password apps, such as 1Password, allow you to store these things, Apple Passwords doesn’t. Access aims to close that gap by providing a very familiar UI to Apple Passwords.

The app lets you sort things into folders by category, lock it with Face ID/Touch ID, and use it across all Apple platforms (except tvOS). It syncs your data via iCloud, with nothing stored on external servers, ensuring your privacy. The developer also states they collect no user data, and if you use Advanced Data Protection in iCloud, it’ll be end to end encrypted.

iOS 18 update

Access has recently been updated for iOS 18, with a number of neat new features:

• App Intents with support for Shortcuts & Siri
• Controls for Control Center & Lock Screen
• Spotlight Search
• Refreshed design with the three-column layout, new sorting options, new system interactions (multiple selection, drag & drop), and more
• Attachments — add a photo or file to a saved item

Download the app

You can download Access on the App Store for free on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It was recently featured on the App Store in the “Best Apps for Apple Vision Pro” category as well. Access+ is available for $3.99/month, $9.99/year, or $24.99 lifetime. Access+ unlocks the ability for unlimited items, whereas you can only use 5 items for free.

You’ll need a device running iOS 18, macOS 15, or visionOS 2.

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