# Updated Codebook 5 Description for Android
Codebook Password Manager provides powerful and complete data encryption, a flexible data model, automatic sync with Codebook Cloud, and Password AutoFill.
Codebook is free to download and use. With a subscription to Codebook Cloud, Codebook will keep your passwords and other sensitive data in sync across all your devices.
Codebook has been protecting sensitive information on mobile devices since the days of the Palm Pilot! It protects your passwords and personal information from unauthorized access by would-be crackers, malicious thieves, and snoopy coworkers. Stop using the same password for all your accounts! Codebook generates strong, random passwords and keeps them for you, protected by your master password and powerful encryption.
FEATURES:
• Support for biometric login
• Full support for AutoFill in browser
• Automatic background sync with Codebook Cloud
• Support for user-initiated sync over Dropbox, Drive, and Desktop WiFi (w/ Codebook for macOS and Windows)
• Full-text search as you type across all your records and fields
• Auto-lock timer allows you to keep Codebook temporarily unlocked while you switch apps
• Configurable field masking to hide sensitive data from view
• Erases clipboard when information is copied to be pasted in other apps after two minutes
• Supports both portrait and landscape device orientation
• Includes 200 gorgeous color icons for personalizing your records
• Generates two-step verification (TOTP) codes
• Store sensitive Image files and PDF documents (10MB max)
USE STRONGER PASSWORDS:
• Codebook helps you remember stronger passwords, but also to generate them
• Generate random passwords from several common character sets, and adjusts for bias
• Codebook also supports Diceware passwords, both Reinhold and EFF
CUSTOMIZE AWAY:
• Personalize categories to match your organizational style
• Customize your entries including usernames, passwords, websites, notes, and create your own fields and labels
• Note records can be created in any category to store free-form text
• Store any information you want--no restrictive templates!
• Store URL connection strings (e.g. SSH, AFP, SFTP) to launch other applications directly
• Star your Favorites to get at them quickly and sort them to the top of search results
ENCRYPTION AND PASSWORD PROTECTION:
• Uses the open-source, encrypted database engine SQLCipher for all data storage
• The encryption used is 256-bit AES in CBC mode
• Master Password key derivation uses 256,000 rounds of PBKDF2 SHA-256
• Every encrypted database has its own random initialization vector
• Every page of storage has its own random initialization vector and HMAC protection
• Hardware-accelerated using CommonCrypto for speed and reduced battery consumption
• All sync data is encrypted with a completely random Sync Key
CODEBOOK DESKTOP:
Codebook for Android is designed to work seamlessly with Codebook Desktop, a simple yet elegant application for Windows and macOS. Codebook Desktop lets you synchronize your information over WiFi, Dropbox™, or Google Drive™ between multiple devices, backup data, import, and export from CSV spreadsheet files. Codebook Desktop also includes Secret Agent, an interface that allows you to securely access your data in any application. Codebook Desktop is free - check out https://www.zetetic.net/codebook for more details, and a product tour!
FREE BACKUP:
If you don't use Codebook desktop you can still backup your Codebook database for free using the Dropbox or Google Drive sync feature.
ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES:
Codebook for Android uses the Accessibility API to allow users to opt-in to the browser Autofill service. The Autofill service allows users to insert information stored within Codebook into supported browsers.
Codebook for Android permissions explained:
https://www.zetetic.net/blog/2014/4/21/strip-for-android-permissions.html
Codebook for Android EULA:
https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/eula/