KeePassXC is a community fork of KeePassX with the goal to extend and improve it with new features and bugfixes to provide a feature-rich, fully cross-platform and modern open-source password manager.
- Auto-Type on all three major platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X)
- Stand-alone password generator
- Password strength meter
- Using website favicons as entry icons
- Merging of databases
- Automatic reload when the database changed on disk
- KeePassHTTP support for use with PassIFox in Mozilla Firefox and chromeIPass in Google Chrome or Chromium.
- Many bug fixes
For a full list of features and changes, read the CHANGELOG document.
KeePassHTTP is not a highly secure protocol and has certain flaw which allow an attacker to decrypt your passwords when they manage to intercept communication between a KeePassHTTP server and PassIFox/chromeIPass over a network connection (see here and here). KeePassXC therefore strictly limits communication between itself and the browser plugin to your local computer. As long as your computer is not compromised, your passwords are fairly safe that way, but use it at your own risk!
Pre-compiled binaries can be found on the downloads page. Additionally, individual Linux distributions may ship their own versions, so please check out your distribution's package list to see if KeePassXC is available.
More detailed instructions are available in the INSTALL file or on the Wiki page.
First, you must download the KeePassXC source tarball or check out the latest version from our Git repository.
To clone the project from Git, cd
to a suitable location and run
git clone https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc.git
This will clone the entire contents of the repository and check out the current develop
branch.
To update the project from within the project's folder, you can run the following command:
git pull
Once you have downloaded the source code, you can cd
into the source code directory and build and install KeePassXC with
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DWITH_TESTS=OFF ..
make -j8
sudo make install
To enable autotype, add -DWITH_XC_AUTOTYPE=ON
to the cmake
command. KeePassHTTP support is compiled in by adding -DWITH_XC_HTTP=ON
. If these options are not specified, KeePassXC will be built without these plugins.
We are always looking for suggestions how to improve our application. If you find any bugs or have an idea for a new feature, please let us know by opening a report in our issue tracker on GitHub or join us on IRC on freenode channels #keepassxc or #keepassxc-dev.
You can of course also directly contribute your own code. We are happy to accept your pull requests.
Please read the CONTRIBUTING document for further information.