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Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by versionc@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What do you use for syncing your password manager between your Android phone and your PC? Apparently Nextcloud doesn't support two-way syncing on Android for some reason, and Syncthing-Fork is still untrustworthy since the disastrous handover. The AI generated profile picture of researchxxl doesn't exactly inspire confidence either, neither does his GitHub bio:

Hi! My name is Jonas and I like to use my coding skills from games and modding to continue work on the Syncthing for Android wrapper.

Everything about this person screams vibe coder.

Bitwarden is an alternative, but I don't like how non-standard it is. It's cumbersome to manage and backup, meanwhile the KeePass format is just a file that I can backup wherever and however I want and there are many frontends to choose from.

Have you solved this?

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[–] devtoolkit_api@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago

I ended up going with KeePassXC on desktop + KeePassDX on Android, synced via Syncthing. Here is what made it work reliably:

Set Syncthing to sync only the .kdbx file (not the whole vault directory)
Enable "ignore permissions" on the Android side
Use Syncthing's file versioning (simple, keep 5 versions) as a safety net against corruption
On Android, KeePassDX can directly open from the Syncthing folder — no extra steps

The Syncthing-Fork situation is concerning, but the original Syncthing Android app still works. You can grab it from F-Droid or GitHub releases directly.

Alternatively, if you already run any kind of server (even a small VPS), Vaultwarden is genuinely fantastic. It is a lightweight Rust implementation of the Bitwarden API — runs in a single Docker container using maybe 20MB RAM. The official Bitwarden apps on every platform just connect to your self-hosted instance. Setup takes about 10 minutes with Docker Compose + Caddy reverse proxy.

I have been running Vaultwarden for about a year and it has been completely bulletproof for syncing across 4 devices.