KeePassXC is a free and open-source

password manager A password manager is a computer program that allows users to store and manage their passwords for local applications and online services. In many cases software used to manage passwords allow also generate strong passwords and fill forms. Pas ...

. It started as a community fork of

KeePassX KeePassX is a free and open-source password manager. It started as a Linux port of KeePass, which was at that time an open-source but Windows-only password manager. Both are now cross platform, with KeePassX using Qt libraries and recent vers ...

(itself a cross-platform port of

KeePass KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows. It officially supports macOS and Linux operating systems through the use of Mono. Additionally, there are several unofficial ports for Windows Phone, Andro ...

). It is built using Qt5 libraries, making it a multi-platform application which can be run on

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and

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. KeePassXC uses the KeePass 2.x (.kdbx) password database format as the native format. It can also import (and convert) version 2 and the older KeePass 1 (.kdb) databases. KeePassXC supports having key files and

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challenge-response for additional security. The Electronic Frontier Foundation mention KeePassXC as "an example of a password manager that is open-source and free." A secure

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of KeePassXC

version 2.7.4 was completed in late 2022. An accompanying browser extension is also available for

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, Google Chrome and

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