# Pocket ID

Self-hosted OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 provider that lets users sign in to their apps with passkeys.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/pocket-id/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://pocket-id.org
- repository: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id
- docs: https://pocket-id.org/docs/introduction
- discord: https://discord.gg/8wudU9KaxM

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Elias Schneider
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2024
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: auth
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: sqlite, postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: yes, interface translated into more than 25 languages by the community

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker compose

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-2-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-11-02

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 9933
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 108
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://pocket-id.org (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://pocket-id.org/docs/introduction (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://pocket-id.org/docs/setup/installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://pocket-id.org/docs/setup/installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://pocket-id.org/docs/setup/installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://pocket-id.org/docs/setup/installation (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://pocket-id.org/docs/setup/installation (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://pocket-id.org/docs/configuration/environment-variables (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://pocket-id.org/docs/guides/sign-in-methods (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/pocket-id/pocket-id (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/releases/tag/v2.19.2 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/releases/tag/v2.19.2 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/pocket-id/pocket-id/contributors (read 2026-11-03)
- i18n: https://pocket-id.org/ (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://pocket-id.org/docs/api (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Pocket ID is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 provider that lets users sign in to the applications they run with passkeys. It runs as a single program with a built-in SQLite database and can use PostgreSQL instead. The [installation guide](https://pocket-id.org/docs/setup/installation) covers Docker Compose and a single binary, and the binary is meant to run under systemd or the platform's equivalent. An admin UI handles user management, and an admin can issue a login code so a user can add a first passkey or recover access. Users and groups can be imported from LDAP.

The README names Keycloak and ORY Hydra as other self-hosted OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 providers, and the documentation names Keycloak and Authentik. It says the project supports only passkey authentication.

## Worth knowing

Browsers allow passkeys only on HTTPS pages, or on localhost, so the instance needs a domain served over HTTPS. Pocket ID keeps its database and uploads in a data directory next to the program.

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