A reused username ties your accounts together long before anyone gets near your email or your password. Using a different one everywhere is one of the cheapest privacy habits there is, and the irony is that most username generators are websites you have to hand your new identity to.
So we built one that never sees it, and it is now on Zapstore, the app store built on nostr.
UsernameGenerator asks for no Android permissions. Not "only the clipboard", none at all, and you can check that before you install: dump the permissions of the APK and the only line you should see is the package name. Everything runs on word lists compiled into the app, so there is no network access, no account, no analytics and nothing that could phone home. The names you generate stay in memory for the session and are never written to disk, because a saved list of the identities you created is exactly the file you would not want on your phone. Randomness comes from SecureRandom rather than an ordinary random number generator, since identities you are keeping apart should not be guessable from one another.
What it does: one to five words, drawn from curated lists of positive words in 11 languages, including Norsk, Português, Español, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Română and Latina. Mixed, or adjectives, nouns or verbs only. A separator of none, hyphen, underscore or full stop. Accents are stripped after generation, so "condução" becomes "conducao" and the result is accepted everywhere. Tap to copy.
Publishing through nostr adds something an ordinary download does not. The signing certificate of the app is cryptographically linked to our nostr identity, so your device can check the build really came from us before it installs it. The source is open under MIT, every release is built in the open, and each one carries a provenance record tying the binary to the commit it came from.
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On Zapstore:
https://zapstore.dev/apps/no.stormberry.usernamegeneratorIn your browser:
https://username.stormberry.as
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