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24 alternatives to Secrets.mjs

Manage your team's local dev env secrets with gcloud storage

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Secrets.mjs launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Shelve▲156

    Effortless & secure secrets management

    2025 · shelve.cloud · its alternatives →

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    CLI first management of your environment secrets

    2023 · envsecrets.com · its alternatives →

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    enject: Hide .env secrets from prAIng eyes: secrets live in local encrypted stores (per project) and are injected directly into apps at runtime, never touching disk as plaintext. - GreatScott/enject

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    EnvKey▲79

    Protect api keys and credentials. Keep config in sync.

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm so happy to finally show you all this release after years of hard work. I posted the first version of EnvKey to HN back in 2017 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15330757), then went through YC in W18 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569534). EnvKey is an end-to-end encrypted configuration and secrets manager. It protects your organization's API keys, encryption keys, credentials, and other secrets, and makes it easy to run servers, scripts, tests, and everything else with the latest config. It also helps you avoid duplication in your…

    2022 · v2.envkey.com · its alternatives →

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    Check if your secrets and API keys have leaked on GitHub.

    2023 · gitguardian.com · its alternatives →

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    Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets

    2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We're all spending more and more time making stuff with agents, but I've noticed that one of the things that is the most disconnected from my daily engineering workflow is dealing with secrets and credentials. It often involves a lot of click-ops, copying/pasting, and collaboration, and none of the secrets management products out there have truly scratched that itch. I built Capy to solve this. It's a secrets manager whose entire frontend is a developer CLI, and I find it extremely ergonomic to use by hand. You also don't need to leave the CLI to sign up for and use it! You…

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Never lose track of your .env files again

    2024 · holdmyenv.com · its alternatives →

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    Secli▲85

    A CLI to store secrets locally

    2022 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I've been frustrated with the secret sharing situation in serverside javascript land for a while; the common thing is to just toss .env files around on Slack to get someone's app working, or involves some kind of convoluted setup to get a blob from a storage and turn it into environment variables via commands I have to copy paste every time. But everyone uses secret storage providers, e.g. shared password vaults, cloud secrets, etc., so why not leverage those as URIs in a JSON file that can be checked in to source control? I want something simple that would just generate the darn .env…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Securelog▲112

    Prevent leaked secrets across code, logs, and pipelines

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hi 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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    Hi HN, I built KeyEnv because I was tired of the "can you Slack me the Stripe key?" workflow. The problem: My team's secrets lived in a mix of Slack DMs, shared Google Docs, and .env files that definitely weren't in .gitignore at some point. Enterprise tools like Vault required more DevOps time than we had. Doppler was close but felt heavier than we needed. What KeyEnv does: keyenv init # link project keyenv pull # sync secrets to local .env keyenv run -- npm start # inject secrets, run command That's basically it. Secrets are encrypted client-side (AES-256-GCM) before leaving your machine.…

    Jan 2026 · keyenv.dev · its alternatives →

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    Zero-knowledge secret manager for small dev teams

    May 2026 · getvaultlite.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, English is not my native language. This post was polished with AI, but the content is mine. I run a small dev agency in Germany. Every week someone shares database credentials, API keys, or a .env file via Slack or email. Not because they don’t care: because there’s no frictionless alternative. Vault setups are heavy. Enterprise tools are expensive. I just needed: upload → share link → done. But encrypted before leaving the browser. So I built SecretDrop.dev. What it does Files encrypted client-side (AES-256-GCM, PBKDF2 600k iterations) Built entirely on WebCrypto No…

    Feb 2026 · secretdrop.dev · its alternatives →

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    Yet another credential store 🔐. Contribute to raiyanyahya/yacs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Encrypt your on-premise server disks and save the keys in the cloud securely - randomvariable/kms-cryptsetup

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Save API keys, .env and secrets locally. Free & Open Source.

    Apr 2026 · passstore.makio.app · its alternatives →

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    Open-source, end-to-end encrypted management of environment secrets.

    2023 · envsecrets.com · its alternatives →

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    Manage secrets alongside your code. Contribute to mqnfred/hips development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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