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Open Source Password & Secret Management Tools

Open source password & secret management tools

projects 7 combined stars ★ 73K refresh nightly
Password & Secret Management is one of the most active slices of the open source world — the 7 projects below are ranked by GitHub stars, which makes this page roughly a community-voted shortlist rather than a vendor-curated catalogue. Every card shows the license and the last-commit date, so you can filter out the two failure modes of free software in one glance: restrictive licensing that blocks your use case, and abandonment that leaves you maintaining a fork. When two projects look comparable, prefer the one with more recent activity and the more permissive license (MIT/Apache-2.0 over AGPL) unless copyleft specifically serves your goals. Hover into any project for its full README — the documentation quality is usually the honest tell of engineering quality.

All Password & Secret Management tools

KeePassXC ★ 29K

Cross-platform, secure password manager

rank001 licenseNOASSERTION written inC++ typePassword & Secret Management
Bitwarden ★ 20K

Secure password management for individuals and businesses

rank002 licenseNOASSERTION written inC# typePassword & Secret Management
Aegis Authenticator ★ 13K

2FA token manager for Android with encrypted vault

rank003 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJava typePassword & Secret Management
Passbolt ★ 6.1K

Secure password management for teams

rank004 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typePassword & Secret Management
Padloc ★ 2.9K

Secure password manager with end-to-end encryption

rank005 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typePassword & Secret Management
2FAS ★ 1.5K

Local-first 2FA authenticator and password manager

rank006 licenseGPL-3.0 written inKotlin typePassword & Secret Management
PearPass ★ 534

Complete password control, zero cloud dependency

rank007 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typePassword & Secret Management

Frequently asked questions

How many open source Password & Secret Management tools are there?

This registry tracks 7 open source Password & Secret Management projects, with 73,207 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

What is the most popular open source Password & Secret Management project?

KeePassXC leads this category with 28,843 GitHub stars, followed by Bitwarden.

Are these Password & Secret Management tools free?

Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.