Earlier this year, I wrote and released a password management app for the iPhone called PassDrop. I created it because I was highly unsatisfied with the state of password management apps on the app store at the time—most were either lacking a painless method of synchronization, or lacking a desktop counterpart altogether. PassDrop took a considerable amount of my free time for a few months to complete.

At the time, I had decided not to add iPad support since I didn’t have an iPad, and didn’t want to invest additional resources into the app when my time to work on it was already so limited.

Much has changed since then—I do have an iPad now, I have even less free time than I did before, and many of the competing password managers have evolved to a point where I find them rather usable (mSecure in particular, now that they’ve added (admittedly glitchy) DropBox support).

What all of this means for me is that I’m no longer motivated enough to continue working on and supporting PassDrop for the time being. What all of this means for you is that PassDrop should be considered more or less feature complete as it is now (with the exception of bug fixes).

As for the future of PassDrop, you are unlikely to see any major updates or improvements coming from me. However, seeing as how I’m using a GPL'ed library (libkpass), PassDrop itself falls under the GPL (albeit a slightly modified version since it makes use of OpenSSL for crypto). As such I can, have, and will provide the complete source code to anybody who wants it, so there is a possibility that other apps forked off of the PassDrop source code may one day appear on the App Store.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment below, or email me at the address I provide on the PassDrop support page.