Clave

Secure Nostr key management for iOS. Pair any compatible client via NIP-46, sign with a tap. Works in the background. Open source. https://clave.casa

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2026-06-15 13:50:30 GMT

GM ☀️
Yesterday they flipped the switch on social media for under-16s. The real lesson isn’t the age limit. It’s that any government can kill “social media” overnight.
Because social media has a front door. A handful of companies you can knock on (or threaten).
Nostr has no front door.
It’s not even social media. It’s an open protocol, like email or the web. Social media is just one thing people build on it. You also get marketplaces, blogs, long-form, payments, communities, and whatever else people dream up.
Your identity and data live with you, not in some corporate database. Apps like @npub1cla…539g (iOS) and @npub1am3…xrv7 (Android) make it dead simple and secure: they keep your key safe in your phone’s hardware and let you sign into lots of Nostr clients without pasting nsecs, creating accounts, or signing up. No foreground app required.
And the best part: they’re not social media apps. They’re keys to the entire open Nostr world.
Sovereignty isn’t coming. It’s already here.
#nevent1q…7jur

2026-06-15 10:54:37 GMT

Shipping a small-but-satisfying fix in Clave 🔑 and an proposed update to NIP-46
The problem: when you connect an app to a Nostr remote signer over a bunker://
link (NIP-46), the signer had no way to know *which* app was connecting — so theconnection showed up nameless/generic. You'd approve signing for "some app" with no idea who.
The fix: the client can now include its name, URL, and icon right in the connect
request — the same info nostrconnect:// already carries, brought to the bunker
flow too. Clave reads it and labels the connection properly.
It's live end-to-end: Clave (signer) reads it, and our experimental client jank.army (client) sends it. Pair them and the app's real name shows up.
We've proposed it as an extension to NIP-46 so any signer or client can adopt it. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2381
Backward compatible — apps that don't send it connect exactly like before.
cc @npub1w4u…0jr5 @npub180c…h6w6
https://clave.casa
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2026-06-14 14:15:12 GMT

Clave 🔐 0.2.0 Build 100
New in this build:
• Bug fix: Low-trust signing now waits instead of failing. Set an app to "ask every time," post from it (e.g. jank.army) — it should stay pending until you approve in Clave, then go through. Deny = clean rejection.
• Switch accounts right on the Share Bunker Code screen.
• Connection detail now shows activity live.
Live in TestFlight now. Open source, still beta.
https://clave.casa

2026-06-13 19:04:25 GMT

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Thank you 🙏 Reach out to this account or @npub1xy5…3urc if you have any issues!

2026-06-13 18:48:36 GMT

“But where does my key actually go?” is the question we get most about Clave. So we wrote a plain-language FAQ.
A preview:
• Is my key on your server? No. Your nsec never leaves your iPhone. Our server just nudges your phone “you’ve got a request” — it can’t read anything or sign as you.
• Why iOS only? Android has Amber; iOS had no equivalent, because Apple’s background rules block the way Amber works. Clave is built around them.
• Should I use my main key? Your call. The honest version’s in the FAQ. The short of it: it’s one app holding your key instead of the dozen you’ve pasted it into.
Full FAQ, no jargon → github.com/DocNR/clave/blob/main/FAQ.md

2026-06-09 18:14:11 GMT

Clave 0.2.0 Build 98
Clave now implements the NIP-46 logout method (per nips#2373). Log out of a client and it tells the signer to tear down that session, so abandoned pairings clean themselves up instead of lingering. Live on TestFlight.Requires a compatible client (can be tested on spectr.clave.casa). Thanks to @npub1ye5…knpr for proposing this update.
https://clave.casa

2026-06-08 16:08:42 GMT

Everyone thinks a Nostr signer is for logging into dedicated social clients like @npub12vk…pugg or @npub1wsp…7rqf.
We built Clave for the other stuff… the recipe apps, the workout trackers, the games, the music players, the experiments someone ships in a weekend.
One key unlocks a world of “other stuff”.
Drop a few of your favorites👇
#clave
https://clave.casa

2026-06-07 15:12:35 GMT

Clave 0.2.0 (95)
Thank you to the beta tester who picked this up! User feedback and testing are our lifeblood 🤙
Shipped a fix in the latest Clave build: the QR scanner camera no longer stays awake after you leave the Connect tab. SwiftUI keeps tab views mounted once visited, so the capture session quietly stayed live (camera indicator on) across the whole app. Now it only runs while you are actually looking at the scanner. Small bug, but your camera indicator should never be on when it does not need to be.

2026-06-06 00:10:33 GMT

Check out the new @npub1cla…539g website! Testflight link is right there on the site - easy to grab and share.
We’re letting the recent encryption changes soak for a week or so, then the next step is to submit to the App Store 🙌
Ps- thanks to @npub1utx…50e8 for the inspiration 😉 and @npub1aeh…4nwx for the copy improvements.
https://clave.casa
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2026-06-04 13:59:19 GMT

Clave v0.2.0 Build 94 released on iOS Testflight. Now supporting NIP-44 v3.
In NIP-44 v2, an encrypt or decrypt request to a signer carries no information about what kind of event it's for. The request is just (pubkey, ciphertext). The signer can't tell whether an app is decrypting its own chat traffic, your Cashu wallet (kind 17375), or your gift-wrapped DMs (kind 1059). So when you grant an app "can decrypt for me," you're necessarily granting it for everything — the protocol gives the signer no handle to gate per-kind.
NIP-44 v3 puts the kind and scope into the request and binds them into the encryption itself. Now the signer knows what kind of data is being touched, and grants can be per (app, kind, scope). An app authorized to "save its deck (kind 30078, scope spectr_decks)" cannot silently decrypt your wallet or your DMs with that grant. The cryptography enforces it.
First reference-implementation pair shipped today: @npub1cla…539g (iOS signer) and Spectr (web client at https://spectr.clave.casa ).
Thanks to @npub1226…grkj for the NIP-44 v3 spec, the Go reference library at github.com/nostr-land/ncrypt-go, and the 228 test vectors that made porting safely possible. Thanks also to the @npub1am3…xrv7 team and @npub137c…k37w and Nostr Build Shack for paving the way and being the first to implement.
#nip46 #clave
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2026-06-02 10:45:55 GMT

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Too late? Check out https://github.com/DocNR/clave
iOS NIP-46 remote signer. Your Nostr private key stays in the iPhone Keychain — clients sign events via encrypted push, without the app being open.
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2026-06-02 00:52:52 GMT

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yo whats up! just checking out the site now. looking great! seems like nostrconnect working well. reach out to me @npub1xy5…3urc if you need anything.

2026-05-28 02:15:08 GMT

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Don't do this...

2026-05-12 12:25:08 GMT

Clave v0.2.0 build 79 — what to test
**What's new:**
- New **Connect** tab in the bottom bar (between Activity and Discover) — replaces the old "Connect a Client" button on Home
- New **Discover** tab — placeholder for now, will eventually list NIP-46-compatible apps
- Multi-account pairing flow: when you have multiple accounts in Clave, you explicitly pick which account each app should sign for (no more implicit "use whichever is current")
- Bunker URIs now ask which account first, then show that account's URI + avatar (was: always used current account)
- New help sheet explaining Nostrconnect vs Bunker, including a note about same-device pairing reliability
**To try:**
1. **Find the Connect tab** — fourth icon from the left on the bottom (⚡ bolt). Tap it.
2. **Pair with your favorite Nostr app** using its sign-in / NIP-46 flow:
- Scan the QR with Clave's camera, or
- Tap "Paste Nostrconnect URI" and paste from clipboard
3. **Multi-account folks:** after pasting/scanning, you'll see an account picker. Pick one. The picker shows your avatar, display name, and a short npub.
4. **Try the bunker flow** — tap "Share a code from Clave" → pick an account → copy or scan the URI for that account. Paste into the other app.
5. **Tap the help link** at the bottom of the Connect tab and read the methods comparison. Does it make sense?
6. **Same-device pairing:** if you've struggled with nostrconnect URIs between apps on the same iPhone before, try Bunker for that case and see if it works better.
**Report bugs** via the signal group or tag #clave on Nostr. Include:
- Which step failed
- Single-account or multi-account?
- Same-device or cross-device pairing?
- A screenshot if possible
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2026-05-09 11:55:57 GMT

Clave build 71 just hit external TestFlight.
Two things to know:
1. On iOS, prefer bunker:// if your client is on the same iPhone as Clave. Same-device nostrconnect:// is supported but fragile — iOS suspends the client's WebSocket when you switch between apps, breaking the handshake. Bunker pairing avoids the whole problem (it goes through Clave's primary relay via APNs and doesn't care about foreground state).
If you do use same-device nostrconnect, build 71 fixes the misleading "Stay in Clave" copy — the new prompt tells you to switch back to your client app, which keeps its WebSocket alive long enough to receive the response.
2. Bunker connection cap is now actually enforced. Was bypassable due to a timing bug — closed at all three layers in this build. Thanks to the tester who reported it.
Plus a sizable refactor under the hood (~2,000 LOC of AppState.swift split into focused files; same behavior, much easier to reason about going forward).
Find a bug? DM me.
Clave social post — Option B (narrative, for client devs)
New Clave build out on external TestFlight. Two things worth flagging for anyone shipping NIP-46 in a client:
Same-device iOS pairing: recommend bunker://, not nostrconnect://. When the user taps Approve in Clave, the client app loses foreground and iOS suspends its WebSocket within seconds. The connect-response Clave publishes goes to a closed connection. Bunker pairing routes through wss://relay.powr.build/ (Clave's primary sub) via APNs, so foreground state doesn't matter.
If your client wants to support nostrconnect:// on iOS anyway, two things help:
Include wss://relay.powr.build/ in your URI's relay set — the proxy's primary subscription catches signing requests there regardless of client foreground state
Don't show the user "stay in the signer for a few seconds" — they need to switch back to your app for the WebSocket to stay alive
Documented end-to-end at https://github.com/DocNR/clave/blob/main/docs/nip46-compatibility.md
Beyond that: build 71 also closes a bunker pair-cap bypass and ships an ~85% reduction in AppState.swift size from a behavior-preserving refactor.
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2026-05-06 11:57:04 GMT

Clave v0.2.0 build 60 — now available in TestFlight 📲
A polish round on the pending-approval surface, based on tester feedback:
• Lock-screen banners properly clear when requests expire, are approved, or denied
• New "Not now" button — defer pending alerts and handle them via the bell on your own time
• Pending tile on Home is now tappable (opens the inbox)
• Correct "X of N" numbering when multiple requests are stacked
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5Mx5AZx7
Source: https://github.com/DocNR/clave

2026-05-05 02:50:42 GMT

New Clave build on TestFlight (v0.2.0 build 54). Two big quality-of-life shifts:
Signing requests now have a real inbox — bell icon on Home, cross-tab alerts, Approve/Deny right from the lock screen.
Connecting a Nostr app got simpler — one sheet with Bunker + Nostrconnect tabs, no more 3-card maze.
Plus: tap any signed event in Activity to see the raw JSON.
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2026-05-04 14:58:21 GMT

Hello Nostr. The keys stayed home today. #clave