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Comment by BrunoBernardino | Hacker News Reader

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Padloc [1] yet. It's end-to-end encrypted, open source, easy to self host, and with a really UI + UX. I got all my family to use it and used it for a over a year, before eventually contributing actively to it.

There's even a Tauri-based desktop app!

Full disclosure: I have "contributing power" but do not make money from its sales or anything like it.

[1]: https://padloc.app

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"This app isn't available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android". Cannot install.

—Google Play on an Android 13 Pixel 7. That and the star rating are not confidence inspiring.

Sorry, I install from the APK directly, available in the GitHub repo. I see someone already created an issue for it at https://github.com/padloc/padloc/issues/725 so thanks for bringing it up!

First time I’m seeing this and the branding/design shouts “stay away from me, I’m a student project!”

Not exactly the impression I’d like to see when using a password manager. And I’m a UI/UX designer in case you wonder…

Do you care to elaborate on why you feel this way? Specifics would be appreciated. I'm not getting the same signal from it at all.

Well, it couldn't be farther away from the truth. It's a very profitable business (I tried to buy it, but I don't have nearly enough money). So I just contribute to improve things because I like it. I do get the design isn't for everyone, though, so thanks for sharing!

Does it have WiFi sync? Seems like all the big players are committed to removing that, and that’s like the one single thing I want from a password manager: don’t store all my passwords in the cloud.

Check out CodeBook, it’s not open source but it’s a 1-time fee for device type (windows, Mac, iPhone, android), up to five installs. I’ve purchased for phone, MacBook, and windows pc and been using for the past 5+ years and am satisfied with it. The product itself isn’t open source but the company which makes it does develop an open source module/extension of SQLite for encrypted database. All syncing is manually done, across Wi-Fi or it can use Dropbox or google drive.

https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/

wow, closed source, manual sync, and i get to pay for it?

Nope. It stores the data end-to-end encrypted in the devices locally and synchronizes that to the cloud. I personally liked the wi-fi sync a long time ago with 1Password (before it was a subscription-based business), but since this is e2ee and open source, I'm fine with the cloud storage.

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