Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#11

Post by Drainik » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 1:51 AM UTC

I can't recommend KeepassXC enough! Its completely offline and also has a browser exetension.

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#12

Post by decrypt » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 2:46 AM UTC

Drainik wrote: post #11

I can't recommend KeepassXC enough! Its completely offline and also has a browser exetension.

One thing that I haven't understood is syncing. How do you sync passwords between different desktops/mobile devices?

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#13

Post by izyda » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 2:47 AM UTC

arthurmorgan wrote: post #6

If you don't want to use the cloud KeepassXC on macOS and KeePassium or Strongbox on iOS are probably your best choice. Personally I'm happy with using Bitwarden, which you can self-host.

How does Strongbox syncing work between your mobile and desktop devices? Do you just have to store the database on your own cloud account (ie. Dropbox?)

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#14

Post by niij » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 3:07 AM UTC

I'm not sure what "sth" is, but there was an outage at AWS today. It's possible it depended on a connection to us-east-1.

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#15

Post by cmeacham98 » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 4:15 AM UTC

copperx wrote: post #10

pjot wrote: post #5

I can’t recommend Bitwarden[0] enough. For me it checks all boxes, and includes some other other nice-to-have’s: - open source - has mobile/web/desktop/CLI clients - can be self hosted [0]: https://bitwarden.com/

The only reason I can't recommend it is because searching for a password (from a login form) takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds. It's a database of at most a few hundred entries. Why does it take that long? Happens on Android. It's been like this for years.

Maybe submit a bug report? Takes at most 1 second for me with the android app, ~200 entries.

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#16

Post by copperx » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 4:25 AM UTC

cmeacham98 wrote: post #15

copperx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The only reason I can't recommend it is because searching for a password (from a login form) takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds. It's a database of at most a few hundred entries. Why does it take that long? Happens on Android. It's been like this for years.

Maybe submit a bug report? Takes at most 1 second for me with the android app, ~200 entries.

It is already a known issue in the bug tracker.

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#17

Post by Mayzie » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 5:30 AM UTC

niij wrote: post #14

I'm not sure what "sth" is, but there was an outage at AWS today. It's possible it depended on a connection to us-east-1.

sth -> something

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#18

Post by Bestora » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 6:10 AM UTC

pjot wrote: post #5

I can’t recommend Bitwarden[0] enough. For me it checks all boxes, and includes some other other nice-to-have’s: - open source - has mobile/web/desktop/CLI clients - can be self hosted [0]: https://bitwarden.com/

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#19

Post by ssda2211 » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 7:00 AM UTC

Another vote for Bitwarden. I can confirm that it works flawlessly, does not gobble up ram in Chrome and is user friendly.

Re: Ask HN: 1Password Alternatives

#20

Post by landmass » Wed, Dec 08, 2021, 11:42 PM UTC

decrypt wrote: post #12

Drainik wrote: post #11

I can't recommend KeepassXC enough! Its completely offline and also has a browser exetension.

One thing that I haven't understood is syncing. How do you sync passwords between different desktops/mobile devices?

Send the KeePassXC .kdbx password database to your cell phone, download it to your phone, then upload it to Strongbox (or other). I find the easiest way to send it to my cell phone is by using Signal's "Notes to Self." All my devices that have Signal and have KeePassXC then have access to the updated database.