Show HN: Cipher – Mobile Ethereum Web3 DApp Browser

I really feel like the #1 problem for all crypto stuff is that it is completely unapproachable without having to learn a massive amount of new terms&#x2F;vocabulary.<p>Look at this description: &quot;The Power of Ethereum in the Palm of Your Hand Cipher Browser is the world&#x27;s first full-featured mobile dapp browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain. Cipher allows you to interact with dapps powered by Ethereum on your mobile device and makes it easy for you to securely store, send and receive Ether and ERC20 tokens.&quot;<p>I have absolutely no idea what this is saying. Whoever can crack the nut of user experience for the layman (hell, even just technical folks who haven&#x27;t spent the time to study all of these technologies&#x2F;terms enough to know what the fuck they&#x27;re talking about) is going to be very rich. Until then, this is just nerds catering to nerds.

Erm, who made this and why should I trust it? Wallet apps need a lot of trust behind them, more than a normal app. It could be really well made and still run off with my money if they&#x27;re malicious or just implemented the crypto wrong.

Nice work!<p>btw, there is also the Ethers wallet which is open source and also in the iOS app store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethers-io&#x2F;EthersWallet-ios" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethers-io&#x2F;EthersWallet-ios</a><p>the author is quite skilled and has spent a tremendous amount of time to consider a secure implementation throughout the entire code base. I highly recommend it.

This is really nice, it’s a bit annoying having to enter the entire recovery phrase during setup, could you just pick a few random words instead to enter?<p>My biggest concern with these types of apps is the security of the wallet, given everyone is rolling their own build, so personally I probably won’t put any real funds in here for some time.

iOS App Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;cipher-browser-for-ethereum&#x2F;id1294572970?ls=1&amp;mt=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;itunes.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;cipher-browser-for-ethereum&#x2F;...</a><p>Android Google Play (Beta): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.cipherbrowser.cipher&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.cipherbrow...</a>

Curious to know if the source code is available out there? Would love to audit it before putting it to use.

Awesome work Peter! This is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.im" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.im</a> and <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toshi.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;toshi.org</a>)

For someone who&#x27;s not at all in touch or in synch with all this, why should I install it? What is the value proposition? Just to send money to other people in an ideologically pure way?

I spent some time playing with this yesterday and showed it to a few colleagues today. It&#x27;s a cool implementation - feels like the beginnings of an app store for DApps.

Can’t get used to those iPhoneX screens. Still look awful to me.<p>Congrats on the work though. A major item for becoming a successful anything is having a large community. Broadening access to the technology helps a lot to achieve it.<p>US AppStore only it seems. Or at least not in NL.

This looks cool -- good luck! (I just followed you on twitter)<p>How is this different from Status?

I use multiple devices, will it be possible to have two installs synced together? For some reason I had some difficulty with this on Status.

Can&#x27;t find the app in the play store . Is this country locked? Is there a apk from f-droid or a legitimate GitHub repo?

cool project! is it a cordova app or facebook react? as you have typescript in there it probably is something like that??<p>i think this really fills a great whole. i am happy that you did this work ;)<p>i would definitely be willing to contribute, if you open source it.