Ente Locker - New app from Ente

General
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Thanks for sharing, this is the first that I’m hearing of them. Both look cool, and a bit more complex than what we have in mind for Locker.

Unlike Drive products, your experience on Locker will be tailored to storing a few important documents and for some - to serve as a dead man’s switch. So your usage on Locker will be measured in terms of number of items, instead of the size of bytes consumed.

Also, like I earlier mentioned, we will not integrate with the file system to offer 2-way sync (like Dropbox / Drive), so data on Locker is meant to be infrequently added / updated.

Yes, for those already comfortable using a password manager, right now the incremental value will be minimal. We’re building Locker for folks who are not using one (eg. my parents), due to the sheer complexity of password managers, and for those wondering about the posterity of their digital footprint.

I agree! But Ente is unlikely to get into this because the scope for a good password manager (browser plugins, auto fills, breach notifications, …) is more than what we have in mind for Locker. It is important to us that Locker remains simple and accessible.

Legacy is the feature within Ente that enables inheritance. Data will not be wiped automatically without intimations for customers who have set this up.

I don’t have an ETA, but yes, we would like to provide this feature.

Our CLI is for data exports, but if you wish, you can setup our Desktop app to watch folders.

Yes! Like some folks pointed out, we need to iron out our marketing copies for Locker. It’ll get better with time, along with the product. Thanks a lot to everyone for the feedback so far.

We’ve increased the seats for the beta program (to paid Ente customers). So if you are interested, you can access the latest builds for Android here and iOS here.

If you’d like to chat / share feedback directly with the team, you can do so on the #locker channel on our Discord. You can also share your thoughts here, I’ll do my best to lurk around and proxy them.

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I hope Ente doesn’t end up on the Proton path (too horizontal, before vertically polishing existing services). Ente photos still has no way to download/export entire folders in zip format, for example.

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Thank you, did try it again yesterday and now it works :slight_smile:

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In my opinion both Auth and Photos are polished enough for them to release a new product. (Locker isn’t a very big app and it’s minimalistic by design). Photos is their main product and they’ll keep working on it and are still actively releasing new features.

I’m not worried they’ll become like Proton. They’re trying to grow more so they can hire more engineers

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Wouldn’t recommend sharing which data you store anywhere

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Yeah seems pretty much like a kinda everything and nothing app.

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The more I think about it, the more I think that Locker could be great for someone who mostly lives in the Google or Apple ecosystem. They don’t want to think much about how their stuff is stored and they want dependability. They don’t care that Google or Apple have access to files. However, there may be a handful of documents which are private that they want to store separately, and for that I think Locker seems great. I can see this rounding out someone’s security and privacy needs who may not want to make the jump to something more powerful or dedicated like Proton Drive.

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Will Locker also be self-hostable like Photos and Auth?