I'm not sure, looks like it's either paused or abandoned from the github link. Whatever the state of it, there are fundamental limits that neither it nor anything else can overcome on iOS, the main limit being long-running background tasks; those can only be used for 7 or so specific things, and nothing on that list of specific things corresponds to signing Nostr events. (You have to use some clever workaround to keep the process going in the background, like playing silent music, which is cool but won't scale out of test flight as sooner or later a reviewer will see that.) And even if you go that route, you still run up against limits like the need to run the signer app every time you restart your phone etc. You basically need the cloud involved *somehow* for it to be a scalable and user0friendly UX, just no two ways around it.

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That makes a lot of sense. Quite unfortunate for those who would like to have a tool like Amber on iOS, but it kind of needs to be awake in the background waiting for signing requests in order to work locally.

Yeah, it’s paused. Sorry, folks. But I’m not giving up on it yet. My focus has been too spread thin to make meaningful progress on any single project as I’m doing all of this on the side. My focus is currently Damus and have a few exciting features lined up.

In the meantime, check out Aegis by nostr:npub179e5zckwq9vqsenc8ha9qv7p9vxwq20cq526ac67prts8kc4khmqu50zj8 which has been getting some traction as an iOS signer and adoption amongst some Nostr apps. I think their UX switching between apps looks pretty good. But there are limitations that can cause friction. Like adding reactions to notes.

Thanks for the update!

Your time is more scarce than Bitcoin, so I get it.