Authgear Overview

Authgear is a highly adaptable identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) platform for web and mobile applications

Authgear is an authentication & user management solution which makes it very easy for developers to integrate and customize their consumer applications, it includes these features out of the box:

• Zero trust authentication architecture with OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard.

• Easy-to-use interfaces for user registration and login, including email, phone, username as login ID, and password, OTP, magic links, etc for authentication.

• Support a wide range of identity providers, such as Google, Apple, and Azure Active Directory (AD).

• Support biometric login on mobile, Passkeys, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) such as SMS/email-based verification and authenticator apps with TOTP.

• A user management portal, like password resets, account locking, scheduled deletion or anonymization, and user profile management.

• Single Sign-On (SSO) provides a single unified experience for your customers to log into multiple web/mobile apps, including Web2Web, Web2App, and App2App SSO.

• Enable SSO with SAML for your users to log into multiple web applications easily.

• Session management with Authgear Portals, and a pre-built setting page for users to control concurrent sessions.

• Customizable UI with a user-friendly low-code dashboard.

• Various security features such as audit logs, brute force protection, smart account lockout, password policy, etc.

• APIs for further integration and customizations. For example, build your own custom login and sign-up pages from the ground up powered by Authentication Flow API.

Most importantly, you can get started with Authgear for free.

Learn about Authgear

Authgear contains the following high-level components:

Authenticate on the Web/Mobile App

• Client App SDKs - for developers to quickly implement authentication with Auth UI on your web and mobile applications. Check out Start Building for tutorials and API References.

• Auth UI - is the default batteries included UI for login, signup and setting page. You can customize the style via the Portal, including the CSS and HTML of each page.

• Authentication Flow API - for developers to implement their own login, signup and reauthenticate UI (e.g. a mobile native view); or to define a customized login, signup and reauth flow.

• Use Authgear as OpenID Connect Provider - for developers to use Authgear with other software that already support OIDC login, you can use Authgear as an OpenID Connect Provider.

Backend Authentication and Integrations

• Backend/API Integration - explain the common approach of using Access Token or Cookies (JWT or random string) to authenticate an API or HTTP Requests.

• Admin API - allow your backend to interact directly with Authgear for user management purpose.

• Events and Hooks - call external web endpoint or use the hosted type-script to customize the behaviour of Authgear. E.g. blocking certain type of sign up, or call external endpoint for each login.

• User Import API - Import multiple users from another service to your project.

• Export User API - Export user data from Authgear into a CSV or ndjosn file.

• Link OAuth Provider using Account Management API - Link an OAuth provider to a user's account without AuthUI.

Management Portal

• Authgear Portal - You can configure your projects, manage users, check out audit log, or customize the AuthUI. See the 5-minute quick start guide for Authgear Portal.

• Analytics Page - View reports of all users and active users over a specific time interval on the analytics page.

Security

• Brute-force Protection - Set account Lockout Policy to safeguard a user account from brute-force login attempts.

• Bot Protection - Bot protection tools to block automated attackers.

• Password Strength - Learn how to set password strength and how the password strength is calculated.

Login Methods

• Biometric Login - Add biometric login to your application.

• Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) - Enable 2FA in your Authgear project.

• Email Magic Link Login - Allow users to log in without a password using a magic link.

• Passkeys Login - Set up passkey for your project.

• Social Login / Enterprise Login - Allow users to log in to your application using their existing account with a social media site or enterprise login provider.

Customize User Interface (UI)

• Customize Built-in UI - Customize the look and feel of AuthUI to match your branding.

• Language and Localization - Change the language for display texts.

User Management

Features for managing your users via Authgear Portal

• Create a new account on behalf of a user - Create a new account for a user from Authgear Portal.

• Account Deletion - Delete a user account from your project.

• User Roles and Groups - Detailed guide on how to use Roles and Groups.

• User Profiles - Guides on how to view and manage user profile information.