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by craftyguy 3007 days ago
not gp, but I did the same thing a few years back (well, lastpass->keepass->pass/git) primarily because I was sick of using a proprietary walled garden.

The main benefit of pass, for me, is that it's literally just gpg-encrypted text files. I can access my passwords even if I do not have pass installed, as long as I have my gpg private key. Using git to sync passwords makes it even better!

The android Password Store app (on f-droid) is a great graphical interface to my pass files, including handling git syncs.

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+1 for the Password Store app, I happen to use an Android tablet and an iPhone and the "Pass" app on iPhone works just as well too (and includes touchID).
Why did you move from keepass?
Two reasons:

1) I didn't like that its approach seemed overly complicated (e.g. its database format, client apps, etc)

2) I was having a really hard time synchronizing passwords, especially if there was a sync conflict. When they happened, the entire database was a 'conflict'. There were also issues I had with the actual sync mechanism, which at the time I had the database on a seafile instance and had to enable various 'hacks' in keepass to get it to play nicely (e.g. file locking, etc).