Authgear Overview
Authgear is a highly adaptable identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) platform for web and mobile applications
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Authgear is a highly adaptable identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) platform for web and mobile applications
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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 (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 , , and (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 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 .
Most importantly, you can with Authgear for free.
Authgear contains the following high-level components:
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.
Features for managing your users via Authgear Portal
Client App SDKs - for developers to quickly implement authentication with Auth UI on your web and mobile applications. Check out for tutorials and API References.
- 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.
- for developers to use Authgear with other software that already support OIDC login, you can use Authgear as an OpenID Connect Provider.
- explain the common approach of using Access Token or Cookies (JWT or random string) to authenticate an API or HTTP Requests.
- allow your backend to interact directly with Authgear for user management purpose.
- 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.
- Import multiple users from another service to your project.
- Export user data from Authgear into a CSV or file.
- Link an OAuth provider to a user's account without AuthUI.
Authgear Portal - You can configure your projects, manage users, check out , or customize the AuthUI. See the for Authgear Portal.
Analytics Page - View reports of all users and active users over a specific time interval on the .
- Set account Lockout Policy to safeguard a user account from brute-force login attempts.
- Bot protection tools to block automated attackers.
- Learn how to set password strength and how the password strength is calculated.
- Add biometric login to your application.
- Enable 2FA in your Authgear project.
- Allow users to log in without a password using a magic link.
- Set up passkey for your project.
- Allow users to log in to your application using their existing account with a social media site or enterprise login provider.
- Customize the look and feel of AuthUI to match your branding.
- Change the language for display texts.
- Create a new account for a user from Authgear Portal.
- Delete a user account from your project.
- Detailed guide on how to use Roles and Groups.
- Guides on how to view and manage user profile information.
Get Started
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How-To Guides
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Concepts
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