{"slug": "passbolt", "name": "Passbolt", "category": "security", "category_name": "Security and passwords", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 3.254, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2026-02-24", "latest": "2026-06-25", "why": "might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 3, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "might be an interesting alternative. 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The feature set looks pretty good at first sight.", "excerpt": "Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/ might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight. The only real downside I see so far is that it doesn't have macOS and Linux apps. Other than Bitwarden it is real open source.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"}, {"id": 770958160, "item_id": 48184885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184885", "by": "dgavrilov", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/", "excerpt": "Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["self-hosted team password manager", "password management", "shared secret management", "sharing secrets"], "compared": [{"slug": "bitwarden", "name": "Bitwarden", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163389", "title": "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147637", "title": "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671468", "title": "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951", "title": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"compare": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"compare": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 778779168, "item_id": 48673698, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673698", "by": "kirici", "date": "2026-06-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Passbolt and Bitwarden can be self-hosted", "excerpt": "Passbolt and Bitwarden can be self-hosted on top of offering the usuals pros like MFA, an API incl. integrations (e.g. https://external-secrets.io/latest/provider/passbolt/) and a better UX that does not involve syncing files between team members", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted team password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"}, {"id": 771175360, "item_id": 48198460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198460", "by": "cryptos", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight.", "excerpt": "Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/ might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight. The only real downside I see so far is that it doesn't have macOS and Linux apps. Other than Bitwarden it is real open source.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"}, {"id": 770958160, "item_id": 48184885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184885", "by": "dgavrilov", "date": "2026-05-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/", "excerpt": "Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "Password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"}, {"id": 770617232, "item_id": 48163577, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163577", "by": "andreashaerter", "date": "2026-05-16", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Thoughts and reviews about Passbolt?", "excerpt": "Thoughts and reviews about Passbolt? TOTP handling seems a bit off, extensions are not mostly read-only (OK for me). But the \"share a single secret\" access control seems nice: https://www.passbolt.com/pricing/pro https://www.passbolt.com/vs/bitwarden/overview https://www.passbolt.com/docs/hosting/install/ PHP backend (IMHO a downside): https://github.com/passbolt/passbolt_api. But There appears to be a significant am", "context": "", "use_case": "Shared secret management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"}, {"id": 770476481, "item_id": 48154780, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154780", "by": "rstuart4133", "date": "2026-05-15", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "AGPLv3 and does support sharing single secrets, but no free hosted version. Free if you self host of course.", "excerpt": "I use bitwarden, but it not being able to share a single secret is becoming an issue. In my search for alternatived I stumbled across https://passbolt.com/ AGPLv3 and does support sharing single secrets, but no free hosted version. Free if you self host of course. It guess it's a vaultwarden without \"the man in Nebraska\" problem.", "context": "", "use_case": "sharing secrets", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"}, {"id": 754264833, "item_id": 47141552, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141552", "by": "drcongo", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "current front runners are Passbolt [0], Hypervault [1] and Heylogin [2]", "excerpt": "I despise what 1Password has become. They've spent the past 10 years removing everything that made it great, and becoming increasingly user hostile. And now this. Well they can fuck off. This is great timing though as only the other day I was researching the alternatives - current front runners are Passbolt [0], Hypervault [1] and Heylogin [2]. If anyone has personal experience with any of these I'd love to hear your", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}]}