keepassxc
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
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What it is
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
I love that the "big guys" get to support syncing passkeys between devices... but others don't (wasn't it KeePas who had issues where they were threatened by being blocked from…
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Also in these discussions
- keepassx/keepassx · linked in 2 of the same discussions
- kunzisoft/keepassdx · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:00:58 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
Observed mentions: 2017-01-19 23:33:12 UTC to 2026-10-14 23:38:36 UTC.
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Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 19 | 1 | 18 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 24 | 2 | 22 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 47 | 3 | 44 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 45 | 0 | 45 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 37 | 0 | 37 |
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