Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to keyhold.io
I found that many people like myself who run tech companies, agencies, or other types of businesses will often need to ask their clients for various secrets (env files, passwords, access codes, fried chicken recipes...), and there was no tool out there that felt like it was made for that job. I explored password managers, "one-time link"-type sites, self-hosted, SaaS... none of them had the simplicity I was looking for, for myself and for my clients. So, I spent my Christmas annual leave building this. keyhold.io is a zero-knowledge custody of secrets platform with a fixed monthly rate,…
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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Permit.io▲677The new Permit.io CLI brings developer-first workflows to access control. Define, test, deploy, and enforce fine-grained authorization using AI, CI/CD, GitOps, and OpenAPI — all from your terminal
2023 · permit.io · its alternatives →
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2019 · key.cat · 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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Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets
2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →
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keychains.dev▲177Hi HN — I’m a heavy OpenClaw user and, like many others, I’ve been thinking about how to give these new “unleashed” agents secure access to my accounts. Agents need API access to be useful. But API keys are long-lived secrets. And agents are not secure environments. So I built something for myself that quickly turned into a product: keychains.dev. The idea is simple: agents never see raw credentials. With Keychains.dev: • Agents make API calls via a drop-in replacement for curl or JavaScript’s fetch() • They use template variable names instead of embedding credentials • The request is…
Feb 2026 · keychains.dev · its alternatives →
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Latchkey▲122Hi HN, At Imbue, we’ve been following the rapid developments in the agent landscape and noticed that the way agents interact with third-party services on users’ behalf often leaves a lot to be desired. Integrations are ad hoc, complicated, context-heavy, and either unfriendly to non-technical users or tied to a lock-in of some sort. We‘re experimenting with a command-line tool, Latchkey, that could be used by local agents targeted at non-technical users while avoiding remote intermediaries. As far as we know, this is the only existing approach at the intersection of these two goals. Core…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Keyport▲84The password manager and privacy suite for everyday people
2023 · getkeyport.com · 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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Uniqkey▲116Protect every login and let users access with confidence
2025 · uniqkey.eu · its alternatives →
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Keyholdr▲5One hotkey to your API keys, guarded by Touch ID
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Unphishable, zero-touch two-factor logins
2018 · krypt.co · its alternatives →
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Distributed password manager & only you can access
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · emauth.io · its alternatives →
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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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Keybase▲90A public directory of publicly auditable public keys
2014 · keybase.io · its alternatives →
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A fully encrypted Slack-like communications tool
2017 · keybase.io · its alternatives →
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AxKeyStore▲31Hi HN, I built AxKeyStore, an open-source CLI tool for managing secrets that uses your own private GitHub repository as encrypted storage. The idea is simple: → All encryption happens locally. → Secrets are stored as encrypted blobs in your private repo. → GitHub is treated as untrusted storage. → No plaintext secrets ever leave your machine. → No plaintext secrets are stored on disk. Most secret managers either require a hosted backend, a self-hosted server, or trusting a SaaS provider. I wanted something that: → Requires zero infrastructure → Uses tooling developers already have → Keeps…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deprecated, now supported in Keybase itself @ keybase.pub! ~Crypto-signed blog posts; powered by Keybase.io filesystem~ - OJFord/signed-blogs
2016 · github.com · 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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Auth testing reimagined. One-click. Zero setup.
2025 · its alternatives →
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iKrypt▲5Hi HN I built iKrypt after realizing how often passwords, API keys, and other sensitive info still get shared over Slack DMs or email with “I’ll delete it later”. iKrypt is a zero-knowledge, one-time secret sharing tool: - Secrets are encrypted in the browser - The server stores only ciphertext - The decryption key lives only in the URL fragment (never sent to the server) - Links expire by time or view count - Optional email notification when a link is first opened This is intentionally not a password manager or vault — it’s for quick, one-off handoffs where you don’t want sensitive data…
Jan 2026 · ikrypt.com · its alternatives →
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