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

Language: C++

#41 in Hacktoberfest
#22 in Linux
#20 in macOS
#13 in Security
#14 in Windows
Proton Pass end-to-end encrypted password manager is here and free for everyone | Jun 2023
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I Use KeePassXC[0] on the desktop and is really great. It is open-source; not an Electron app, it is written in C++[1]; there are browser plugins to auto-fill user/password/TOTP codes; it is local-first: not tied to any cloud vendors and you can easily sync the database file via any cloud system if you want; there is an Android app that can use the same database.

[0] https://keepassxc.org/ [1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
1Password Has Raised $620M | Jan 2022
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Big fan of KeePassXC (https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc). Works wonderfully on MacOS. I guess 1Password is a bit snazzier, but I'm really not sure what you would use $620M for in a password manager...

Maybe they'll go the Keybase route and integrate some crypto?! (https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar-launch)
Open Source Alternatives to Popular B2B Tools | Jul 2021
N.B. KeePassX hasn't been maintained since 2016!

Use https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc instead. (They are compatible)

Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? | Aug 2020
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Check out KeepassXC: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
KeePassXC 2.3.0 released | Mar 2018
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I was a little confused by your comment at first, maybe you didn't intend it that way, but I got the impression that you meant MacPass is open source, unlike KeePassXC. Except that KeepassXC is in fact open source: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/

I suppose you meant that MacPass is open source, unlike some other Mac password managers?

I didn't really check until someone downthreads mentioned that KeePassXC is (basically) a superset of KeePassX, which I know is open source because I use it as my password manager. So that means it's time for me to check out KeePassXC :) See what it does for me :)
KeePassXC 2.3.0 released | Feb 2018
Does anyone know what the license is for this software? It looks like there are NINE different license files in the repo: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc

Did they just copy paste every different license they could find into the repo?

Ask HN: Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager? | Jan 2018
I do have a basic algorithm in my head for when I don't have my password manager of choice, keepassxc (https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc) on hand, but I highly prefer to just keep seperate keepassxc databases and secure them by keeping them stored on fde removable media (microsdcards are easily hidden).
KeePass 2.37 has been released | Oct 2017
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I've been using KeepassXC and really like it.

https://keepassxc.org/

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc

HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13468261
KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX | Jan 2017
Here is the repository which isn't linked anywhere on the site: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault | Jan 2017
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I've used KeePassX for offline/cold storage for years. I like KeePassX so much wrote a YubiKey extension [0] years ago but it was never merged. I assume the maintainer wasn't interested, never responded, but allowed the discussion to continue. Turns out this was more the norm than the exception, I assume the maintainer was too busy or lost energy/interested in maintaining what became a big project.

Years later KeePassXC[1] was forked and slowly growing.

[0] https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/pull/52

[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc