KeePass is the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager

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  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • OMG I tried to setup SyncThing a couple of months ago to sync my KeePassX (kdbx) between my PC, my MAC and my Android phone. It was hell, I had to fight SyncThing every step of the way (connecting between clients, which one is the receiver and which one is the sender and whatnot), and it just didn't sync. In addition I learned that in Android SyncThing cannot sync to an external SD card ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366 ) .

    I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.

  • pass-import

    A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • KeePass2.x

    unofficial mirror of KeePass2.x source code

  • Bitwarden

    The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  • KeeWeb

    Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass

  • https://keeweb.info/ is a website that loads a local keepass database (or from something like Google Drive).

  • pass-tomb

    A pass extension that helps you keep the whole tree of passwords encrypted inside a Tomb.

  • By itself, Passwordstore will not encrypt file names or directory names, which might not be a problem if no one else has access to the machine that hosts your git repo, but if that's not the case (even if it's a private repo on whatever platform), you might want to use either Tomb or git-crypt-remote to have full end-to-end encryption. There are even some tools that glue tomb and pass together (https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb for one), though I'm not sure what's the situation is like when it comes to mobile integration with tomb/git-crypt-remote.

  • vaultwarden

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

  • I use Bitwarden. I don't trust that service with my data. I host an instance of the community-developed backend: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden on my own server so that I don't need to, and use the FOSS clients to access it.

    I feel more comfortable with that than syncing a KeePass file over dropbox or google drive, mostly because I got myself into a nasty situation that way with a corrupted KeePass database a while back.

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  • 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.

  • It's great, but lacks yubikey support. Might arrive very soon, though, beta is already available in play store, see https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/issues/8

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