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24 alternatives to ZeroKey

Open-source, burn-after-reading encrypted vault.

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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    I'm excited to introduce Zerobox, a cross-platform, single binary process sandboxing CLI written in Rust. It uses the sandboxing crates from the OpenAI Codex repo and adds additional functionalities like secret injection, SDK, etc. Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiPm9BOPCg Zerobox follows the same sandboxing policy as Deno which is deny by default. The only operation that the command can run is reading files, all writes and network I/O are blocked by default. No VMs, no Docker, no remote servers. Want to block reads to /etc? zerobox…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Software sandbox for storage of sensitive information in memory. - awnumar/memguard

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ZeroDB▲119

    An open-source, end-to-end encrypted database protocol

    2015 · zerodb.io · its alternatives →

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    Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication! - sekey/sekey

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stasher is a tiny CLI tool that lets you share encrypted secrets that burn after reading — no accounts, no logins, no servers to trust. I built it because I just wanted to share a password. Not spin up infra. Not register for some "secure" web app. Not trust Slack threads. Just send a secret. Secrets are encrypted client-side with AES-256-GCM. You get a `uuid:key` token to share. Once someone reads it, it's gone. If they don't read it in 10 minutes, it expires and deleted. Everything is verifiable. Every release is signed, SLSA-attested, SBOM-included, and logged in the Rekor transparency…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A distributed password manager without a master password - Zinggi/NoKey

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero▲9

    Private vault for your data

    2025 · techdobz.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero-knowledge vault - secure files, share on your terms

    2025 · safetrigger.app · its alternatives →

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    Easy, secure crypto storage

    2021 · gridlock.network · its alternatives →

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    Vaulty▲90

    Ridiculously easy end-to-end encrypted data sharing

    2023 · vaulty.tools · its alternatives →

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    A tiny app to quickly send encrypted messages with a hotkey

    2025 · 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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    Zero-cloud AES-256 vault for API keys, seeds & secrets.

    May 2026 · cypherkeep.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Your data. Your control. Anywhere. Anytime

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Turnkey▲71

    Simple APIs to securely manage your crypto private keys

    2023 · turnkey.com · its alternatives →

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    Simple and accessible file encryption.

    2018 · theapurvap.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A powerful easy to use file encryption and sharing service.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Password Manager

    2025 · ko-fi.com · its alternatives →

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    Share secure, self-destructing text and code snippets.

    Jun 2026 · zerogpaste.com · its alternatives →

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    Encrypted storage with built-in key management facilities - starekrow/lockbox

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Zero-trust, offline-first encryption for your files

    Jun 2026 · vaulticrypt.pages.dev · its alternatives →

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    just wanted to share ward, a tool i hacked together to encrypt and manage sensitive files in a vault folder. it's written in bash and meant to be cloned and then stored using git or version control. you don't have to store it that way, it's just why i created it. what ward does: encrypts the files in ./vault/ into a single .gpg file, checks to see if your files have been tampered with, generates totp codes if you need them to recover critical accounts. how to use it: clone the repo, toss your files into the vault directory, and run yarn encrypt. now commit your new [private]…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OneKey▲13

    The only key you need to access your secrets securely

    2025 · onekey-beta.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Zero-cloud, locally encrypted offline password vault

    Jun 2026 · notaccess.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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