Open Source Password & Secret Management Tools

Open source password & secret management tools

projects 8 combined stars ★ 145K 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

vaultwarden ★ 70K

Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

rank001 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inRust typePassword & Secret Management

KeePassXC ★ 30K

Cross-platform, secure password manager

rank002 licenseNOASSERTION written inC++ typePassword & Secret Management

Bitwarden ★ 21K

Secure password management for individuals and businesses

rank003 licenseNOASSERTION written inC# typePassword & Secret Management

Aegis Authenticator ★ 13K

2FA token manager for Android with encrypted vault

rank004 licenseGPL-3.0 written inJava typePassword & Secret Management

Passbolt ★ 6.2K

Secure password management for teams

rank005 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inPHP typePassword & Secret Management

Padloc ★ 2.9K

Secure password manager with end-to-end encryption

rank006 licenseAGPL-3.0 written inJavaScript typePassword & Secret Management

2FAS ★ 1.6K

Local-first 2FA authenticator and password manager

rank007 licenseGPL-3.0 written inKotlin typePassword & Secret Management

PearPass ★ 542

Complete password control, zero cloud dependency

rank008 licenseNOASSERTION written inTypeScript typePassword & Secret Management

Frequently asked questions

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

This registry tracks 8 open source Password & Secret Management projects, with 145,089 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.

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

vaultwarden leads this category with 70,127 GitHub stars, followed by KeePassXC.

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.