There are a lot of iOS KeePass tools around but a distinct lack of a good native macOS version. KeePass can be used via Mono on macOS but lacks vital functionality and feels sluggish and simply out of place.
MacPass is an attempt to create a native macOS port of KeePass on a solid open source foundation with a vibrant community pushing it further to become the best KeePass client for macOS.
All pre-built releases can be found at Github.
An unsigned build of the current contiuous tag can be found here: Continuous Build
Due to the nature of the build it might be unstable, however this version contains all the lates changes and bug fixes!
- Fetch the source of MacPass
git clone https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass --recursive- Install Carthage
- Install all Dependencies
carthage bootstrap --platform MacAfter that you can build and run in Xcode. The following command will build and make the application available through Spotlight. If you run into signing issues take a look at Issue #92
xcodebuild -scheme MacPass -target MacPass -configuration Release
There have been some changes in the submodule urls. Please consider re-syncing and initalizing all submodules.
git submodule sync
git submodule init
- Binary releases (0.5.x):
- KDBX History is only preserved. Editing doesn't create new history entries
If you want to contribute by fixing a bug, adding a feature or improving localization you're awesome. Please open a pull request!
Some questions might be ansered in the FAQ
Another place to look is the IRC channel #macpass on irc.freenode.org
Or follow the Twitter account @MacPassApp
The minimum OS X version required for MacPass is currently 10.8 Mountain Lion.
The Status can be found on the dedicated Wiki page.
More Screenshots in the Wiki
KeePassX is a Qt based KeePass port. It's in active development and open source. It fully supports all KDBX features and can import KDB into a KDBX file but is unable to safe as KDB. There's an older release that only handles KDB files. KDBX3.1 is fully supported, KDBX4.0 is currently unsupported.
KeePassXC straight from the project's README:
KeePassXC is a fork of KeePassX that aims to incorporate stalled pull requests, features, and bug fixes that have never made it into the main KeePassX repository.
KyPass Companion is a native Cocoa port and offers KeePassHttp compatibility. Should be able to read and write KDB and KDBX files. It is closed source and currently available in the Mac App Store. It's rather expensive considering the bugs and missing features. Based on the user reviews it should work. Not all KDBX features are supported. It is unable to convert between database versions. KDBX4.0 support is in development.
KeeWeb is a cross platform web client in active development based on electron and thus also is available as an offline version for all major platforms. The project is open source. It supports all features of KDBX files but has no KDB support. Because of the technology its look is customizable, but the native one is quite pretty. Full KDBX 4 support is present. Performance for Argon2 requires WebAssembly.
MacPass, a KeePass compatible Password Manager for OS X Copyright (c) 2012-2017 Michael Starke (HicknHack Software GmbH) and all MacPass contributors
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Due to being licensed under GPLv3 it's not possible to publish a version of MacPass on the App Store. For further details, take a look at the explanation of the Free Software Foundation.
The following list might not be complete, please refer to merged Pull Requests on GitHub for more details. Please report open an issue if you think someone is missing from this list!
Iiro Jäppinen MacPass icon
Thom Williams Document icons
Joanna Olsen Database Icons
Gil André and Michel Bibal French localization
Jannick Hemelhof Dutch localization
Benjamin Steinwender German localization
Francesco Servida Italian localization
Michał Jaglewicz Polish localization
Alex Petkevich Russian localization
Zhao Peng Simplified Chinese localization
Moises Perez Spanish localization
Jellyfrog Asset file size optimization
Nathaniel Madura Refacotrings, first create Database
Kurt Legerlotz Settings to open or copy URL on double click
Adam Doppelt whitespace polish on EntryInspectorView, Autosave table sorting. Default to sort by title.
Stephen Taylor Fixed tab ordering
Andrew Schleifer Enable fullscreen option for document windows, Centralise the Validation, Only enable password entry fields when option is checked
Frank Enderle Cmd+F now marks the text of the search field if the filterbar is already visible and sets the focus. Set remaining password fields to fixed width font.
Josh Halstead and Sebastian Lövdahl Fixed typos in Readme
Chhom Seng Fixed issue with blank outline and entry views if the inspector was hidden before unlocking the database. Implemented context menu validation for entry context menu.
James Hurst Obfuscated autotyping and restoring of pasteboard objects. Fixed issues when exiting search. Implemented workflow double click settings. Make selected textfield end editing when a save will occur. Finished custom browser support for open URL action. Percent escape strings before creating URLs. Fixed issues with Autotype key events. Added missing characters for password generation. Improved "Add Entry" workflow. Fixed bug with icon resetting to default after closing popover. Added ability to set default password generation settings. Made autotype work in more situations. Fixed various issues with Sparkle.
Yono Mittlefehldt Added 90 days expiration preset.
Dennis Bolio Fixes issues with icon selection
Mario Sangiorgio Improved password generation, Improved English localization
Michael Belz Fixed MacPass not opening any window, when lastly opened Database is missing.
This Project is based upon the following work:
KeePassKit Copyright 2012 HicknHack Software GmbH. All rights reserved.
HNHUi Copyright 2012 HicknHack Software GmbH. All rights reserved.
MiniKeePass Copyright 2011 Jason Rush and John Flanagan. All rights reserved.
KeePass Database Library Copyright 2010 Qiang Yu. All rights reserved.
PXSourceList Copyright 2011, Alex Rozanski. All rights reserved.
KSPasswordField Copyright 2012 Mike Abdullah, Karelia Software. All rights reserved.
DDHotKey Copyright Dave DeLong. All rights reserved.
Sparkle Copyright 2006 Andy Matuschak
TransformerKit Licensed under MIT license. Copyright 2012 Mattt Thompson. All rights reserved
MJGFoundation Licensed under BSD 2-Clause License. Copyright 2011 Matt Galloway. All rights reserved.
ShortcutRecorder Copyright 2006—2013 all Shortcut Recorder contributors
NSBundle Codesignature Check Copyright 2014 Jedda Wignall. All rights reserved.
See submodules for additional Licenses
