Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager
The short version
- Initially I released the Chrome extension, but recently I also published the Android app and iOS is pending Apple's approval.
- Besides that, the latest version also includes passkey storage for all platforms!
- About Bramble: It aims to be as feature-rich as all popular and a replacement for cloud-based providers.
- I don't think we need to store our data in the cloud and be at the whims of companies raising their prices every year.
- There's always a breach and then we find out that some fields aren't encrypted, metadata is visible, and so on.
The story
I'm currently working on Bramble, an open source password manager with P2P cross-device sync. Initially I released the Chrome extension, but recently I also published the Android app and iOS is pending Apple's approval. Besides that, the latest version also includes passkey storage for all platforms!
About Bramble:
It aims to be as feature-rich as all popular and a replacement for cloud-based providers. I don't think we need to store our data in the cloud and be at the whims of companies raising their prices every year. There's always a breach and then we find out that some fields aren't encrypted, metadata is visible, and so on. I'm frustrated with this and the increasing lack of transparency during these breaches.
The P2P sync in Bramble uses a Nostr relay (which can be self-hosted) to keep your devices in sync. The relay just introduces the devices to each other; the data then flows directly over WebRTC, so there's no vault server and no cloud copy of your passwords anywhere. What leaves your device is end-to-end encrypted and your devices authenticate each other directly, so a snooping or MITM relay gets practically nothing.
Crypto is all done in Rust so I can control exactly how key material lives and dies in memory (secrets get zeroed out, no GB leaving copies lying around). In Chromium it's a wasm module, on mobile it's native builds bridged over via uniffi.
Android app:
I'm still deciding whether to publish the app on Play store or simply provide the signed APK which users can sideload. Reason for that is Google's plan to lock down Android and take away ownership from its users. Read more about it here: https://keepandroidopen.com/
The app uses no Play APIs whatsoever and runs perfectly on GrapheneOS, where I actually did all my testing.
Questions, feedback, feature requests - all welcome!
TL;DR: I dislike private-equity and venture funded companies messing with our security, so I created my own Password Manager which is local-first, free, open source and as transparent as it gets.
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