Passbolt
Passbolt is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Password Managers category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to Bitwarden, 1Password and LastPass and ships a Docker image. It has 6,187 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 20, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 6,187
- Forks
- 407
- Open issues
- 21
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,048
- Last commit
- Oct 20, 2026
- Latest release
- v5.17.0Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Feb 23, 2016
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 20, 2026, 2,048 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 20, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,048 |
| Latest release | v5.17.0 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 143 |
| Open issues | 21 |
| Open pull requests | 5 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 23, 2016 |
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About Passbolt
Collaborative password manager.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/passbolt/passbolt_api.
Topics
- password-manager
- passbolt
- security
- cakephp
- productivity
- php
- credentials
- password
- cakephp5
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Is Passbolt free and open source?
Yes. Passbolt is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Passbolt with Docker?
Yes. Passbolt provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Passbolt?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Passbolt include Vaultwarden, Bitwarden and AliasVault. Passbolt itself is a self-hosted alternative to Bitwarden, 1Password and LastPass.
Is Passbolt actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Passbolt was on Oct 20, 2026 with 2,048 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v5.17.0, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 21 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.