Best Open Source Password Managers in 2026

Tools for securely storing and managing passwords, credentials, and sensitive data across devices and teams.

The most popular pick this year is KeePassXC with 27,081 GitHub stars, but all 5 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.

5 open source password managers — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all

KeePassXC

Cross-platform community-driven port of KeePass Password Safe.

Alternative to:

1Password

Vaultwarden

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

Alternative to:

1Password

Bitwarden

Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

Alternative to:

1Password

Passbolt

Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!

Alternative to:

1Password

AliasVault

Privacy-first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Fully encrypted and self-hostable.

Alternative to:

1Password

How we rank these tools

Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.

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