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.
Session management with Authgear Portals, and a pre-built setting page for users to control concurrent sessions.
Customizable UI with a user-friendly drag-drop 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.
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 (coming soon) - 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 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
Management Portal
Authgear Portal - You can configure your projects, manage users, check out audit log, or customize the AuthUI
Analytics Page - View reports of your total users and active users over a specific time interval on the analytics page.
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