1. Pay and support this small developer. A password manager is a critical tool that needs to be constantly updated to support the latest OS. This isn't Adobe, it's a bootstrapped indie developer making an app for a small audience. I think the free version is already quite generous. Plus Strongbox includes a one time purchase for all platforms, no subscription unlike 1Password or Bitwarden.
2. Compile and build from source. It's an open source app, you are free to sideload the app if you want to.
Sideloading a self-compile app for Apple ecosphere often requires a DUNS ID by Apple App store which in essence will plunge you, the developer, into a yearly subscription.
Sure that one can do a TestApp, but that one-time DUNS ID requirement still remains.
On a sane operating system you can just download the binary, install (or "side-load") it and you're done. No need for any crazy bureaucracy or giving apple tons of money for doing nothing of value.
Alternatively you can use Altstore [0] and avoid paying for an Apple Developer subscription.
When you say refresh after 7-day, is the original installation of your downloaded developer app gets affected/disabled or that 7-day is just a time-limit on how often you can upload your development app?
Was unclear on how to circumvent this DUNS ID for just the sideloading. of apps.
> still missing from the free version
The obvious solution is to pay. Any reason you are opposed to this?
But for others, it should be a caveat that you would not get the full security provided by Strongbox Zero or Strongbox Pro.
Paying the developer for access to the full security version, while the free one has more than security than most actually use, seems reasonable to me?
My only resistance from going the route of strongboxsafe is the lack of app-specific PIN, opposed to OS-specific PIN that is still missing from the free version.
While a master password covers the specific database, the PIN covers the app.
This is a two-problem for me there:
1. No OS-specific PIN/passcode in free version
2. No app-specific PIN-passcode in free version.
Ideally, a minimum of either one should be available in a free version. A wider acceptance should borne with this simple feature in the free version.
Also Netwrix is more enterprise-ready with their SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA ready but that is a moot point for most SMBs, SMEs, family-servers and homelabs.
I do do like the simple fact that Strongbox has it all out with their Github repository.
https://github.com/strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox