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by ekianjo 2738 days ago
> The main selling points for me were that it's open source and they allow you to host it yourself.

KeepassXC is open source too. And it does not require hosting. You can simply store your db onto a synced folder between devices and that's about the same anyway.

As for your comment regarding browser addons, I am not sure what "hoops" you are referring to. I installed the browser addons for KeePassXC and it took 5 minutes to setup and I have had no issue since. And the link you refer to is pretty self explanatory. Maybe Bitwarden makes that even more simple, but it's not that KeePassXC is utterly complex in the first place either.

On Android, KeePassDX is a good client that works with KeePassXC databases.

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You are right about the synced folder, and that's pretty much the approach that I was using. But I was keeping my DB in one provider and my keyfile in another, which means that I had to remember (or have otherwise access to) a total of 3 passwords to unlock my db. It worked, but when I recently had to change phones two times in a period of a few days it was increasingly annoying. Of course I could have kept my keyfile and the DB in the same provider, but still that's one password too many for me.

Thanks for the recommendation for KeePassDX, I will take a look.