lesspass vs passman

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lesspass		passman
	Project
21	Mentions	2
5,653	Stars	768
0.6%	Growth	0.7%
4.9	Activity	8.9
6 months ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lesspass

Posts with mentions or reviews of lesspass. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-12.

LessPass: Generates passwords offline based on a login, a master pass, and a url
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
Self hosted password manager / vaults?
1 project | /r/HomeServer | 24 Apr 2023

Personally I have used a different approach for a passwords for many years now - since I discovered LessPass. It's maybe a little off topic, but worth mentioning.
What password manager do you use?
2 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 12 Apr 2023

LessPass
Wie oft ändert ihr eure Passwörter?
3 projects | /r/de_EDV | 1 Feb 2023
Are there local-storage password managers for Chrome?
1 project | /r/chrome | 30 Dec 2022

You can always try https://www.lesspass.com/.
LessPass: A Password Manager Without Database
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2022
Selfhosting lesspass on LAN!
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 5 Oct 2022

How can I trimm the fat in https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass/blob/main/containers/docker-compose.yml and make it run when I only want to selfhost in my own LAN with no ngnix and all that.
Français, c'est quoi votre truc avec les mots de passes?
2 projects | /r/AskFrance | 13 Sep 2022
How to derive a password from a hash?
2 projects | /r/cryptography | 31 Aug 2022

Both LessPass and MasterPassword derive their passwords with quotient and remainder. Why is that?
LastPass, a Password Manager With Millions of Users, Is Hacked
4 projects | /r/technology | 28 Aug 2022

The safest alternative would be an open source password manager like KeePassXC or LessPass so that you can store and encrypt your passwords locally.

passman

Posts with mentions or reviews of passman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-18.

⟳ 2 apps added, 7 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
4 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 18 Aug 2021

Passman: access your credentials stored in your Nextcloud Passman app
1password is considering a self-hosted option to store vaults
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lesspass and passman you can also consider the following projects:

bitwarden-alfred-workflow - Simple Bitwarden Workflow for Alfred

KeeWeb - Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass

awesome-selfhosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

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

snappass - Share passwords securely

bitwarden - Bitwarden client applications (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli) [Moved to: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients]

keepassxc-browser - KeePassXC Browser Extension

enigma-reloaded - Reloaded with xsalsa20 and ready to help people escape mass surveillance.

Browser - Do some browser detection with Ruby. Includes ActionController integration.

limbo - Limbo is a QEMU-based emulator for Android. It currently supports x86, ARM, PowerPC, and Sparc emulation for Intel x86 and ARM android devices. See wiki https://virtualmachinery.weebly.com for APK download and Instructions.

Neo-Launcher - Neo-Launcher