keepassxc VS desktop

Compare keepassxc vs desktop and see what are their differences.

keepassxc

KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”. (by keepassxreboot)

desktop

The desktop vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux). (by bitwarden)
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keepassxc desktop
512 69
19,071 3,677
4.1% -
8.7 9.6
7 days ago almost 2 years ago
C++ TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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keepassxc

Posts with mentions or reviews of keepassxc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.

desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.
  • PSA: You should change your password manager's clipboard settings now (Bitwarden among them)
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 20 Jan 2023
    There have been requests. So far there hasn’t been an easy way to implement it, unfortunately: https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/90
  • My bug report got purged in a clearance, do how do I confirm it as still being an issue?
    3 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 29 Aug 2022
    If you activate the 'minimize when copying to clipboard' option in preferences, but need to copy something that is set to require master password confirmation, Bitwarden just minimises without copying the password. I made a ticket for that in GitHub in august '21, but that was closed after a 'reorganization' in April. My head was not in the space to check for this problem then, but I checked it now and the problem persists with version 2022.8.1. Of cause I appreciate help with the actual problem, but how do I best let Bitwarden know that this problem persists?
  • Vote for the Bitwarden flatpak app to become official
    3 projects | /r/Fedora | 25 Apr 2022
    $ rpm -qp —scripts https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/releases/download/v1.33.0/Bitwarden-1.33.0-x86_64.rpm postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): #!/bin/bash # Link to the binary ln -sf ‘/opt/Bitwarden/bitwarden’ ‘/usr/bin/bitwarden’ # SUID chrome-sandbox for Electron 5+ chmod 4755 ‘/opt/Bitwarden/chrome-sandbox’ || true update-mime-database /usr/share/mime || true update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications || true postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): #!/bin/bash # Delete the link to the binary rm -f '/usr/bin/bitwarden'
  • Bitwarden 1.32.1 keeps asking to be updated and not updating on pc
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 26 Mar 2022
    Hi! We’ll find more info about that issue here: https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/1423
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 26 Mar 2022
    Thanks for the feedback everyone, you can follow the latest updates for this issue on Github.
  • Need An Ealier Version Of Bitwarden
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 23 Mar 2022
    Although we recommend using the latest version, previous releases can be found on the Github Repository if the current one is not supported by your device.
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 23 Mar 2022
    Thanks, these were the answers I was looking for too. Being a newb, which of these file links do I need to re-install on an old MacOS 10.11? https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/releases/tag/v1.31.3
  • A lesson I learnt today about disk space and important applications
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 30 Dec 2021
    Raising an issue? I have a security issue that is more than a year old, quite popular, yet the devs pretend as if it wouldn't exist. At this point I don't think it would matter.
  • What's the current obstacle to more developers directly pushing their apps to flathub?
    3 projects | /r/flatpak | 29 Oct 2021
    Luckily, Flathub is transparent in what manifests are used in the production of the Flatpaks they host. For example, this is the one for Bitwarden. You can take some time to learn how Flatpaks are built, but this one seems pretty straight forward. They are taking the .deb file from Bitwarden's github release page and extracting the executable from there. Then it adds a couple extra files, which are viewable within the manifest file, to make it into a Flatpak app.
    3 projects | /r/flatpak | 29 Oct 2021
    There are a lot of electron apps I would like to see get official flatpak support, but the one I care the most about is Bitwarden, because I'm not comfortable using a "community-maintained" binary for something as sensitive as a password manager. I currently use the Bitwarden appimage. See also this issue.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing keepassxc and desktop you can also consider the following projects:

KeePassDX - Lightweight vault and password manager for Android, KeePassDX allows editing encrypted data in a single file in KeePass format and fill in the forms in a secure way.

KeePass2.x - unofficial mirror of KeePass2.x source code

vaultwarden - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

Strongbox - A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X

MacPass - A native macOS KeePass client

keepassx - KeePassX is a cross platform port of the windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

Aegis - A free, secure and open source app for Android to manage your 2-step verification tokens.

Bitwarden - The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

bitwarden_rs - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs [Moved to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden]

KeeWeb - Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass

google-authenticator - Open source version of Google Authenticator (except the Android app)