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Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager

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Bramble

A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it.

Bramble runs where you do:

Browser extension for Chromium browsers (Brave, Vivaldim Chrome, Arc, and friends). Install it and you're up and running in a minute.

for Chromium browsers (Brave, Vivaldim Chrome, Arc, and friends). Install it and you're up and running in a minute. iOS app with system AutoFill, Face ID / Touch ID unlock, and passkeys.

with system AutoFill, Face ID / Touch ID unlock, and passkeys. Android app with a native autofill service, biometric unlock, and passkeys.

The same encrypted vault and the same Rust crypto core sit behind all three, and your devices can sync to each other directly, peer-to-peer, with no cloud in the middle.

Get Bramble:

What it does

Your passwords are encrypted on your device and written to a single vault file, wherever you choose to put it. On desktop, drop it in a Dropbox or Google Drive folder and it syncs across your machines; on mobile it lives on the device's own encrypted storage. Bramble never sees that folder or that file's contents, it just reads and writes one encrypted file. Prefer to keep the cloud out of it entirely? Bramble's own peer-to-peer sync mirrors the vault straight between your devices.

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