KeePassXC

European Alternative to:

• Notion

A free, open-source password manager that keeps your passwords in a single encrypted file on disk. KeePassXC is a community-maintained C++ fork of KeePassX, which is itself a port of the original Windows-only KeePass. The current project has a strong European maintainer base and is one of the longest-running offline password managers around.

What you get

• A local-first KDBX database, encrypted with AES-256 or ChaCha20
• Cross-platform desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux, all native
• A browser extension for Firefox, Chrome and friends, talking to the desktop app over a local socket
• TOTP generation, password generation, secret-attachment storage, SSH agent integration
• YubiKey and other hardware-key support for the master key

How sync works

KeePassXC doesn't sync anything itself. Your `.kdbx` file lives where you put it: on disk, on a USB stick, in a Nextcloud folder, in Dropbox, anywhere you can copy a file. That's the design: storage and sync are your problem, encryption isn't.

Honestly

There's no "share with my team" feature, no built-in passkey cloud, no autofill on iOS unless you pair it with a separate KeePass-compatible app like Strongbox or KeePassium. For people who want a vault that's truly under their control and doesn't depend on any company's servers staying online, that's the appeal, not the limitation.