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24 alternatives to Keepr – A Secure and Offline Open Source CLI Password Manager

Hi HN, I made Keepr, a simple offline CLI password manager for developers who prefer keeping secrets local and working entirely in the terminal. Everything is stored in an encrypted SQLCipher database, protected by a master password. A time-limited session keeps the vault unlocked while you work, so you don’t need to re-enter the password constantly. Keepr never touches the network. It includes commands to add, view, search, update, and delete entries, plus a secure password generator and clipboard support. Technical details: - AES-256 via SQLCipher - PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 (1.2M iterations) for…

Keepr is an open source CLI password manager designed for developers who want to store credentials locally without network access. It uses AES-256 encryption via SQLCipher with PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 key derivation to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Open Source password manager to secure passwords, simply. 🔒

    2019 · keevault.pm · its alternatives →

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    CLI password manager with encrypted passwords stored locally on your machine using AES-256 - whatl3y/hide

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The offline macOS password manager

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Keeper is an embeddable secret store (Argon2id, XChaCha20-Poly1305 by default). Four security levels, audit chains, crash-safe rotation. Vault is overkill for most use cases. This is for when you ge paranoid about env and need encrypted local storage that doesn't suck. No security through obscurity, hence, It's still early, so now's the best time to find weird edge cases, race conditions, memory leaks, crypto misuse, anything that breaks. The README has a full security model breakdown if you want to get adversarial.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Manage secrets in your terminal with biometric unlock.

    2022 · 1password.dev · its alternatives →

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    A secret manager backed by Keybase and KBFS. Contribute to kbsecret/kbsecret development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Free password manager that you can keep for yourself in a single HTML file. Client side AES encryption, trust no one policy, off the grid password manager. Take full control of your data online or offline.

    2021 · passpilot.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9PS

    Passmgr is a simple password manager which allows to securely store passphrases and retrieve them via commandline.

    2017 · godoc.org · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I got tired of setting up tools I can't explain to a team in a few words like sops or git-crypt, just to store few files with environment variables or secrets, so I built lockenv as a simple alternative. It's basically a password-protected vault file you commit to git. No gpg keys, no cloud, just lockenv init, set a password, and lock/unlock the secrets. This tool integrates with OS keyring, so you're not typing passwords constantly. Should work on Mac/Linux/Windows, but I tested it only on linux so far. I am not trying to replace any mature / robust solution, just…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple, secure, with an Env Vault for your .env files

    Feb 2026 · lemonadepass.app · its alternatives →

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    Secli▲85

    A CLI to store secrets locally

    2022 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need an account to create or use a vault, and the hosted service never receives the vault itself. It's still early software and the independent security review isn't finished yet, so I am mainly interested in feedback, testing, and people looking through the code. (Linux support is yet to be released on v0.1.2, but currently is in the works.)

    Aug 2026 · usesesame.app · its alternatives →

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    KeeWeb▲106

    Free cross-platform password manager 🔐

    2019 · keeweb.info · its alternatives →

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    Secure storage for your passwords & personal information

    2020 · passwarden.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a free, secure & open-source password manager.

    2022 · galaxystore.samsung.com · its alternatives →

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    Lowqee▲74

    Offline password manager with the best encryption

    2023 · its alternatives →

  18. 18SH

    I have written a passwords/secrets manager for my personal needs. Maybe it solves some of your problems too. It is written in Go and is a self-contained executable for a small web-app: https://github.com/jarmo/secrets-web There is also a CLI version if that is your taste: https://github.com/jarmo/secrets-cli To read about more technical details, look into the core repository at https://github.com/jarmo/secrets Any questions/comments/suggestions are welcome in here or via GitHub pull requests.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. We're thrilled to announce that we're open-sourcing our alerting CLI tool, Keep (https://github.com/keephq/keep). Designed by developers for developers, Keep streamlines and simplifies alerting, making it a first-class citizen within the development process. Think of Keep as Prometheus Alertmanager but for all observability tools, with a simple and intuitive (GitHub actions-like) syntax. We believe that alerting has historically been neglected in existing monitoring platforms, leading to subpar alerting practices. With Keep,…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    On Github: https://github.com/oormicreations/OormiPass Features: * Stores passwords securely using AES encryption. * Requires only one master password to access all passwords. * Stores other useful info like usernames, urls, notes etc. * Items are categorized neatly into groups, which can be accessed easily by simply clicking their names in the list. * Users can customize the groups and all items in the group. * Open URLs directly from Oormi Pass and paste your username and password. Save precious time. * Functions to auto log out and change master password. * Hide or…

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    KeePassX is a cross platform port of the windows application “Keepass Password Safe”. - RFC: Add YubiKey HMAC-SHA1 Challenge-Response by kylemanna · Pull Request #52 · keepassx/keepassx

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modern KeePass: private, cross-platform, affordable.

    Jun 2026 · lumenpass.app · its alternatives →

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    A community fork of KeePassX with new features and bugfixes

    2017 · keepassxc.org · its alternatives →

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    Offline password manager

    2022 · bluespace.tech · its alternatives →

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