The Best 1Password Alternative for Indie Devs

1Password is excellent — well-funded, deeply integrated, the safe enterprise choice. The downside: you pay for features built for 500-person IT departments (SCIM, SAML, on-prem secrets gateways) even if you're a 3-person indie team.

PassCryp drops the enterprise scaffolding and focuses on what individuals and small teams actually use: a vault, an extension, a generator, TOTP, API keys, breach monitoring. Same zero-knowledge guarantees, half the price, no enterprise contract.

On crypto, PassCryp uses Argon2id (OWASP recommendation since 2023). 1Password uses PBKDF2 paired with a Secret Key stored only on your devices. Both are secure in practice; Argon2id is the more modern primitive.

Export your 1Password vault as 1pux (preferred) or CSV. Both contain the full vault in plaintext, so export on a trusted machine.

In PassCryp: sign up, set a master password, download the recovery kit. Open Import, pick 1Password, upload the file. Items, folders, notes, TOTP seeds, and attachment metadata map automatically.

Verify a few items, sign out of 1Password on all devices, cancel the subscription. Securely delete the export when done.

Keep: zero-knowledge encryption, browser extension, autofill, generator, TOTP, secure notes, family sharing, recovery kit, breach monitoring.

Trade: SAML SSO (not on PassCryp), Travel Mode (PassCryp doesn't have a dedicated travel feature — but you can sign devices out remotely), Watchtower's deep integrations (PassCryp uses HIBP for breach checks).

Add: first-class API key vault with expiry alerts, environment tagging, per-project grouping. CLI in beta for terminal workflows. Open-source browser extension you can audit.