@alexisbushnell @masek
It's not for everyone, but I am happy with KeepassXC, as long as you have a decent file sync solution to sync your db across devices in a safe way.
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@wydamn @alexisbushnell @masek is there a decent file sync tool? I've never found a solution that works at all on my phone, and in 2026 that's absolutely a deal breaker. It'd be extremely useful for this and obsidian and stuff and it baffles me that it doesn't seem to exist
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I use syncthing and it is fine in android, and there's a reasonable paid wrapper on ios that adds much needed os integration. There will be conflicts if some of your devices are offline regularly, but keepass databases have a well defined merge logic that most clients support so that's not too much of a problem.
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@mavnn @andrewt @masek @alexisbushnell @wydamn I used KeePass + Syncthing for almost 6 months, but then when I opened my computer after 3 days offline, it overwrote ~ 10 accounts I had set up on mobile, and I couldn't recover them even from versioning. I suspect it's because I was using the official Syncthing Android app, which hasn't been updated since Dec 3, 2024. I'm setting it up again, this time using "Syncthing-fork" instead...
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The biggest issue is that it isn't "integrated" - if you're techy enough to understand files being on a file system etc it's great, but it doesn't "just work" if you're setting it up for somebody without that confidence
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@[email protected] @[email protected] My son uses Obsidian on an iPad with Mobius Sync (apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B...) and it seems to work pretty well. That said, he's comfortable using a diff program on conflicting markdown files if a conflict occurs (Syncthing defaults to adding the conflicting file with a suffix to your local file system). My wife also uses Obsidian with Syncthing, but she has a very definite 'source of truth' device - editing on the fly is nice but conflict resolution is nearly always 'the laptop wins'.
Again: reliable, works, but to be as reliable and flexible as it is you sometimes need to understand what it is actually doing (moving files around between file systems) rather than a plugin/integration where somebody else is choosing things like conflict resolution strategies for you.
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@[email protected] Honestly, Obsidian is pretty perfect for Syncthing if you lean into the lots of little linked notes. If you're more of a "my novel is a markdown file" user you'll probably have a lot of frustrating issues.
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