Gian Lazzarini on Nostr: After a fair bit of research, it seems that there's no acceptably secure native iOS ...
After a fair bit of research, it seems that there's no acceptably secure native iOS nostr client as of Jan 2025. All that I found expect you to paste in your private key 🤯. I find this unacceptable, and going forward intend to only use nostr clients that support external signers.
Again, looking at iOS this further limits the options down to #nsecapp and #nostore. Between the two nostore only works on iOS, whereas nsecapp is cross-platform.
Having a background in app development I don't see any good justifications for a native nostr client... A #PWA client is the ideal solution for most, as far as I'm concerned. It's the most free and open, cross-platform app distribution platform, the internet.
Also in part from, pressures from the EU and such, apple has reluctantly caught up sufficiently with their iOS PWA support, critically by adding web push notification support (however this seems to have its own privacy concerns but that's an issue for a separate day).
So with that, I think that the most free, independent, cross-platform, secure approach at this time is to use the #nip46 based https://nsec.app PWA and one of its supported clients such as #snort. Bonus points for self-hosting these for yourself and your community with something like #tailscale.
Again, looking at iOS this further limits the options down to #nsecapp and #nostore. Between the two nostore only works on iOS, whereas nsecapp is cross-platform.
Having a background in app development I don't see any good justifications for a native nostr client... A #PWA client is the ideal solution for most, as far as I'm concerned. It's the most free and open, cross-platform app distribution platform, the internet.
Also in part from, pressures from the EU and such, apple has reluctantly caught up sufficiently with their iOS PWA support, critically by adding web push notification support (however this seems to have its own privacy concerns but that's an issue for a separate day).
So with that, I think that the most free, independent, cross-platform, secure approach at this time is to use the #nip46 based https://nsec.app PWA and one of its supported clients such as #snort. Bonus points for self-hosting these for yourself and your community with something like #tailscale.