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If you are looking for an alternative take a look at Psono. It's open source, only sold B2B so it's free for individuals. It's made in Germany, so a European alternative to the US solutions. It has all the typical features with browser extensions and apps for android and iOS.


Try Psono. You can share any secret via a link https://doc.psono.com/user/basic/sharing.html#with-externals...

You could eather host it yourself or use e.g. https://psono.pw, a free hosted instance of Psono. In regards of trust. Psono is audited every year and the company behind it is ISO27001 certified.


Take a look at Psono. You can share any secret stored there with a link. https://doc.psono.com/user/basic/sharing.html#with-externals...


Hi, Sascha here, the main developer behind Psono. Psono has been audited multiple times so far, usually on a yearly bases. The last one here https://psono.com/blog/security-audit-2024 (you will also find a link to the audit itself)


Thanks! I missed that!


I hope not to offend anyone, but if you want a real open source password manager take a look at Psono.

I am Sascha, the main developer behind it and we have no VC money nor any plan to do a stunt like this.


Ever tried Psono? (I am Sascha, the main developer behind it)

It has SSO / encryption / self hosting / ... and even the enterprise version is free for up to 10 users and if you need more you only pay €2.5 / user / month.


Passkey support (I know it's a pain) would be great...


Use Vaultwarden then


I'll check it out, thanks!


Firefox is a product that hasn't found any way of monitization. Without money they cannot implement the features that chrome offers and web developers use on their web products. As such users will have zillion of little bugs, be annoyed which make them move to chrome and the circle will continue.

Let it die. Let Google be sued and forced to break Chrome away. Let every engine be based on the same engine. Less bugs. Easier for developers. Less user problems.


Have you ever tried Psono? (I am the main developer behind it). Its open source, client side encryption, offers free versions for individuals, regular audited and and bootstrapped / no VC money. Would be happy to hear your opinion how it compares to 1password.


I just had a look if psono would be for me. One thing that I discover all too often (and that is also the case here) is that SSO (openid Salm...) is considered enterprise (sorry for calling you out here right now, this is a general frustration).

If I selfhost i want to not have to manage all my services with individual logins. Selfhosting with e.g. Authentik to provide SSO and identity management is really a perfect solution, but alas so many projects lock SSO away in their enterprise edition (good on psono to not make it ridiculously expensive like often is the case).


SSO is the same login/password authentication flow, isn't it? Just its session is shared between services. Any password manager can handle that password-based authentication just fine.


I have build Psono, an open source password manager. The company was founded about 2.5 years ago (during the high times of COVID) and it was generating $4k on average directly from start. One should mention that I developed the product for a couple of years before I started the company and already had customers alined before I founded the company. I was running it then for 1.5 years as a side project and then beginning of this year decided to quit my cozy WFH, well paid, not stressfull day job to work full time on it (with recession and mass layoffs in the news).


If one is looking for an alternative, may I propose Psono? (I am the main developer behind Psono) It doesn't suffer from some of the reported issues and as such uses for example scrypt instead of pbkdf2 for the hashing of the masterpassword and the urls are for example also encrypted. Noteworthy its open source so everyone can take a look at the source code or ask questions in our discord channel. https://discord.gg/RuSvEjj


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