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Slupiec @lemmy.zip

5d ago

Password manager - EU made

Hi. Any suggestions for password managers which are made and mantain in UE? Share your opinions.

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keepassxc is based in germany, as it seems.
https://keepassxc.org/team/
- Here's a guide for it: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/18/installing-keepassxc-and-yubikey/
  it's not that complicated.

If you are talking about online services, Proton is a Swiss option and for what it's worth, Bitwarden offers an EU instance. Both are freemium OSS. You could also self-host Bitwarden. If you are looking for offline options, there are plenty. KeePass2 comes to mind.
- Thanks. I'm looking something which can be used on android + windows. I was using Proton apps from years and I don't like them anymore; there's little I can do as free user. I'm testing KeePassDX, don't know is it good.
  
  I use the regular KeePass 2 and love it. It looks a bit oldfashioned but is a very powerful tool once you get used to it a bit. As there are plenty of addons you can also easily extend the standard feature set with further options.
  
  i use KeepassDX. its amazing and simple and I absolutely adore it.
  its going to be my password manager of choice going forward. i was able to set up my fingerprint unlocking as well. very convenient.
  highly recommend it.

Keepassxc. I'm a little skeptical to hosted solutions
- You are not the only one
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later

https://keepassxc.org/ is the only password manager I trust. It's fully offline and you can "host" your database wherever you want.

I know that Bitwarden is headquartered in California, but they do have Bitwarden.eu, which I would think is operating inside the EU?
- Even better, self-host Vaultwarden !
  Works everywhere (android, iOS, linux, windows, macOS...)
  TOTP
  Works without connection and if the instance is offline.
  Add notes, customize URI...
  password/username/passphrase generator
  ...
  A lot more to it :)
- I think a lot of people are concerned about situations like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27191500
  
  Bitwarden doesn't have access to your data. This isn't an issue. This is just jingoism because the best way to fight an absurd nationalist asshole is more nationalism

Feel free to crosspost to !buyeuropean@feddit.uk

Don't know about the EU, but this is the only one you'll ever need.
https://www.passwordstore.org/
- What if you don't hate yourself?
  
  If you don't use pass, you should probably hate yourself.
- I tried it for some months but eventually switched to keepassXC

I'm not sure if european, but I love the combo keepass+nextcloud (self hosted)

I'm quite confused in those keepass names. They aren't from one ecosystem?
- In essence keepass is an open database format and a bunch of different software tools have been written to interact with it. You can quite happily share the same keepass database between different software, e.g. synced between desktop and mobile
- There are multiple apps from various devs that all use the Keepass file format, so they are all compatible.
- keepassxc is for desktop and keepassdx is for android and ios(?)
  there is also keepass 2 but that has some vulnerabilities, as i understand
  
  Keepassdx is sadly not on ios.
  The only good one I've found is called strongbox. Free version works fine, but the pro version prices are insanity for something that is free everywhere else. I could get behind a lifetime buy of $10, but for $99 hell no. (Monthly sub is $3 or $25/year).
  Looking at the app store now, most of the keepass apps have some form of in app purchace.
  Only truly free one is call keepass touch, but frankly when I tired it, it sucked.
- The tldr is if you're on windows, use keepass base. It has every feature anyone would want and plugins for the rest. It's basically perfect.
  If you're not on windows, keepass xc is great, but Id think of it as like keepass' most used features, but less customizable and less absurdly complete.
  Android has several the one I use is from fdroid and it's offline-only. Several out there have sync systems, but I use syncthing.

keepassxc for GUI for CLI/TUI I like gopass but you have many many options, just search

I think Clipperz is. Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong.
- Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

https://heylogin.app/pair Found this one and it is very simple to use and sync between pc and android. German made.
- Not open source afaik

You can set up your own MySQL instance with an encrypted database where you keep all passwords and joined information. Using any programming language you can either set up an app with a GUI yourself where you query your passwords or use queries directly in MySQL. I understand when you ask now for what all that hassle, but at least you have a bit more control of your data and there is not a potential company behind or a code fragment which may inform the company about any actions. BTW, you may learn some coding, so it can be fun too.

If you ever want to self host ... psono is always an option, but it has a hairy setup.
- if you ever want to self host ... vaultwarden is the opensource version of bitwarden
- It looks nice, but it has no Passkey support, right?
  https://psono.com/
- It looks nice, but it has no Passkey support, right?
  https://psono.com/

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