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There's pass, a CLI password manager that's version controlled and encrypted with your PGP key: https://www.passwordstore.org/

There are also (unofficial) iOS and Android clients that sync to a git repo.

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It's great, but how can one trust the unofficial clients? They aren't from a well-known developer, and AFAIK, you can't check that the build is from the same code as the GitHub repo.

> same code as the GitHub repo

If you have access to the code then (on Android at least) you could build and install the APK yourself.

Can back this up, the android client is a little finicky but otherwise love this setup. Made by the same person behind wireguard.

"Password Store" Android app by Harsh Shandilya is actually quite good.

that's the one i have, and for whatever reason, my set up does not allow me to create passwords on the android app. I have struggled with SSH multiple times (i always need to create a new ssh key rather than importing a stronger one), etc.

That said, haven't checked for fixes in a while - the actual functionality of the app itself (when in working condition) is very good.

I had issues creating passwords and syncing them too, until I changed my git repo url to be `ssh://git@github.com/…` and set up an SSH key. Worth a shot.

yeah, the ssh issues i kind of sorted out - it was mostly about generating vs importing ssh keys in my case.

I believe i'm falling foul of this issue with actually encrypting things: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...

Pass is the best! As an alternative to the git sync you can also sync via nextcloud or syncthing :-)

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone using Windows though as the one available Windows client is rather poor. I've been thinking of switching to something else after I got a Windows-based gaming PC.

gopass.pw should work on Windows, too. It's a drop-in replacement for pass.

I've tried pass 2 different times on 2 different versions of MacOS and both times it ends up eating tons of CPU and battery. I was never able to figure out what was happening so I just uninstalled the whole thing.

pass is just a shell script. it does not consume any resources. maybe you are referring to something else ?

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