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KeePassXC
KeePassXC Password Manager
Where it stands
4.0 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.4 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community4.3 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on KeePassXC yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use KeePassXC?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
- Your files must stay on your own device. Its own pages say they do.
- You want a free option. It states: “KeePassXC is free and open source. The page says: “We do the heavy lifting in a no-nonsense, ad-free, tracker-free, and cloud-free…”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: pricing, signup, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Password manager
Measured signals
4.4 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from KeePassXC's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 74 ms.
- Security4.3 / 53 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
4.3 / 5 · 27 commenters100% of the 27 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about KeePassXC; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“So there's KeePass, KeePassX, and now KeePassXC. (And two different variants of KeePass that have nothing to do with each other.) Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just curious if KeePassXC is yet another…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“What is the best "backend" for setting up sync between KeePassXC/Strongbox/etc, between multiple clients active simultaneously. Is there a good reason why we haven't seen something like a REST API enabled backend using…”
Read in the thread
Threads: KeePassXC 2.6.0 Released (2020, 174 comments) · KeePassXC 2.7.0 (2022, 135 comments) · KeePassXC 2.2.0 released with YubiKey and TOTP support (2017, 130 comments) · KeePassXC 2.6.1 (2020, 117 comments)
- Free tier
- KeePassXC is free and open source. The page says: “We do the heavy lifting in a no-nonsense, ad-free, tracker-free, and cloud-free manner. Free and open source.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- KeePassXC runs locally on the user's computer. The page says: “KeePassXC and KeePassXC-Browser are run locally on your computer. At no time will any of your stored personal data be sent to us or a third party.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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