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OB | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 how can you get a Nostr account without Alby? I stumbled into Alby, but want to re-do my online Nostr profile, and Alby feels restrictive
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rabble | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 There are many ways to make Nostr identities. But you can also login to https://metadata.nostr.com with alby and make any changes you want to your profile. 

Or copy your nsec in to another Nostr app or browser extension.
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OB | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is much appreciated.  I will try the metadata thing. What if you wanted to use your nsec on your phone? Would you just store it in a password manager?
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Moritz | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Alby is not a Nostr client. The browser extension just helps to access Nostr web clients without pasting your key in each of these apps. 
Let us know what is restrictive then we can improve it for you.
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OB | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 What I mean by restrictive, is now I require Alby if I want to use my Nostr profile. So in the future if Alby restricts my use, or becomes a different company with different values (I don't expect this, but anything is possible) then my profile is stuck with Alby. Also, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but I can't install Alby onto my phone so I can only use the desktop portion. I tried an extension with my brave browser and looked into the app store and there is no app.
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Moritz | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The Alby Mobile Extension is currently only available for Firefox mobile on Android. We are waiting for Apple to fix an issue until we can publish it on iOS, too.
The Alby Extension is independent of Alby in the way that it is a fully client-side app. You can run it even when Alby should not be there. 
But as  @rabble said you can use the same Nostr private key in many other apps at the same time.