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I keep them local too, but I haven't found a solution on how to keep my laptop and phone in sync.

It is not fun having to type a 30+ character password consisting uppercase+lowercase letters, numbers and special characters on a mobile device.

But it has helped me to keep my phone clutter free, so maybe there's an upside to it too :)

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Have you tried pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/)?

I use a combination of a local only solution for the "master list" of passwords that I backup to cloud storage (which is not synced to my phone) in conjunction with the saved passwords & sync capabilities of Firefox for accessing it on my phone. Occasionally I'll be in a position where I'm on my phone and Firefox doesn't happen to have my latest password saved, so I just initiate a password reset for whatever that service is, set it to a new password, and then circle back later when I'm back on my machine to update my local only storage solution. It's not the most streamlined and user friendly, but it works well enough.

> It is not fun having to type a 30+ character password consisting uppercase+lowercase letters, numbers and special characters on a mobile device.

I find that it's much faster to type an all lowercase password that's a bit longer to get the same strength.

KeePass2android and KeePassDX can help on Android. You can self host such as on NextCloud

As mentioned throughout this thread, Syncthing can seamlessly sync between Android phones and Windows/Linux hosts. There are apps for iOS as well, but they can be a bit more finicky due to Apple's app sandbox implementation.

I use Syncthing for that. It syncs over my home WiFi network only.

Dropbox works for this.

Self-hosted BitWarden?

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