HACKER Q&A
📣 anshulag

Recommendations for a Password Manager


I am looking for a password manager that works

- offline

- locally, without an account

- ability to backup

- mac app

It would be preferable if it is open source.

Any suggestions are welcome.


  👤 sandwhichmole Accepted Answer ✓
1Password with the one-time $50 software license + its local WLAN synching functionality + automatically backing up your hdd/ssd locally.

👤 replwoacause
Yep, Bitwarden gets my vote too. I switched from LastPass (after 5 years of use) earlier this year and am very happy with it so far. Works great on all my devices (Win, Mac, Android).

👤 konar

👤 konar
Bitwarden is not offline by default - it stores you passwords in the cloud and keeps a local copy. So you can access it offline but you need online access to edit it. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/9yv32e/can_bitwa...

👤 Shared404
I use pass [1].

It's simple, terminal based, easy to back up, and open source.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/


👤 zuhsetaqi
Master Password [0]

- It’s open source

- Mac App does work well (also available as CLI software)

- Possible to make backups

- Works offline (also a Webversion so you have Access to passwords on any machine with internet access)

- No account needed

[0] https://masterpassword.app/


👤 chickahoona
How about Psono? You can host everything on your own (so I assume that would count as "offline), client side encrypted and its free and open source.

Full disclosure I am the main developer behind Psono.


👤 llampx
I am looking for a password manager for my team as well. Keepass on a shared drive is not ideal anymore. Looking forward to seeing recommendations.

👤 robertcope
I really like BitWarden: https://bitwarden.com/