KeePassXC

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KeePassXC
Developer KeePassXC Team
Initial releaseMay 2, 2012;13 years ago (2012-05-02)
Stable release
2.7.11 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 23 November 2025;18 days ago (23 November 2025)
Repository
Written in C++
Operating system
Platform x86-64, x86, Apple silicon, AArch64 and others
Type Password manager
License GPL 2.0 and 3.0 [2]
Website keepassxc.org

KeePassXC (originally KeePassX [3] [4] ) is a free and open-source cross-platform password manager. It is built using the Qt toolkit, which allows it to run on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD, [5] [6] [7] unlike the original KeePass software.

Contents

KeePassXC uses the KeePass 2.x (.kdbx) password database format natively. [8] It can also import (and convert) version 2 and the older KeePass 1 (.kdb) databases. KeePassXC supports having key files and YubiKey challenge-response for additional security. [3]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation mentions KeePassXC as "easy-to-use [and] robust software". [9] A security review of KeePassXC version 2.7.4 was completed in late 2022. [10]

An accompanying browser extension [11] is available for Firefox, [12] Tor-Browser, Google Chrome, [13] Vivaldi, Microsoft Edge, [14] and Chromium. Extensions can be linked by enabling browser integration in the desktop application. [15]

KeePassXC uses zxcvbn to assess password strength and can search for credential breaches using Have I Been Pwned?. [16]

Reception

KeePassXC was highlighted by Süddeutsche Zeitung in its 2025 overview of leading self-hosted password managers as a solution that offers users increased security and full control by allowing the entire vault to be operated on their own server. [17]

Security Analysis

2024 Evaluation of Password Checkup Tools

A 2024 study examined the “password checkup” features of 14 password managers, including KeePassXC, using weak, breached, and randomly generated passwords. The evaluated products reported weak and compromised passwords inconsistently and sometimes incompletely. No manager successfully flagged all known breached passwords. The study concludes that such inconsistencies may give users a false sense of security. [18] However, the German Federal Office for Information Security considers password checkups a useful feature. [19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 2.7.11". November 23, 2025. Retrieved November 25, 2025.
  2. ↑ "COPYING". GitHub . Archived from the original on July 4, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "The Project". KeePassXC. October 16, 2016. Archived from the original on March 31, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  4. ↑ Thornton, Bob (January 6, 2020). "KeePassXC 2.5.2". Tech Advisor. Archived from the original on January 13, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Download". KeePassXC. Archived from the original on March 12, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ "OpenPorts.se | The OpenBSD package collection". OpenPorts.se. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  7. ↑ "FreshPorts -- security/keepassxc: KeePass Cross-platform Community Edition". FreshPorts. Archived from the original on June 21, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Documentation and FAQ". KeePassXC. Archived from the original on April 1, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ "How to: Use KeePassXC". ssd.eff.org. Archived from the original on September 18, 2024. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  10. ↑ "KeePassXC Application Security Review". molotnikov.de/keepassxc-review. Archived from the original on June 27, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
  11. ↑ "KeePassXC-Browser", KeePassXC, August 31, 2022, archived from the original on September 2, 2022, retrieved September 2, 2022
  12. ↑ "KeePassXC-Browser – Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US)". Mozilla. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  13. ↑ "KeePassXC-Browser". chrome.google.com. Archived from the original on May 29, 2018. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  14. ↑ "KeePassXC-Browser - Microsoft Edge Addons". microsoftedge.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  15. ↑ "KeePassXC: Getting Started Guide". keepassxc.org. Archived from the original on August 6, 2023. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  16. ↑ Hutchinson, Adryana; Munyendo, Collins W.; Aviv, Adam J; Mayer, Peter (May 11, 2024). "An Analysis of Password Managers' Password Checkup Tools". Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '24. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–7. doi: 10.1145/3613905.3650741 . ISBN   979-8-4007-0331-7.
  17. ↑ "Bester Self-Hosted Passwort-Manager 2025" (in German). August 9, 2024. Retrieved November 22, 2025.
  18. ↑ Hutchinson, Adryana; Munyendo, Collins W.; Aviv, Adam J; Mayer, Peter (May 11, 2024). "An Analysis of Password Managers' Password Checkup Tools". Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '24. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–7. doi: 10.1145/3613905.3650741 . ISBN   979-8-4007-0331-7.
  19. ↑ BSI und FZI (December 1, 2025). "IT-Sicherheit auf dem digitalen Verbrauchermarkt: Fokus P asswortmanager" (PDF). www.bsi.bund.de (in German). Retrieved December 10, 2025.
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