While modern credential managers frequently push users toward mandatory cloud subscriptions, KeePass takes a strictly offline approach to protect your most sensitive information. Operating as a highly secure vault for your personal and professional data, this open-source software encrypts and stores your passwords, secret notes, and file attachments locally on your machine rather than broadcasting them across the internet. Currently updated to version 2.60 in late 2025, the KeePass application gives users complete authority over their own digital security while remaining fully compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11.
Key Features
- Advanced Local Encryption: Secures your entire database file—protecting usernames, notes, and attachments alongside the actual passwords—using heavily audited cryptographic algorithms. You can actively switch between AES-256, ChaCha20, and Twofish, utilizing Argon2id for key derivation to drastically slow down targeted brute-force attacks.
- Customizable Auto-Type: Reduces the risk of keyloggers by allowing you to define global hotkeys that automatically enter your login credentials. KeePass minimizes itself and directly inputs the correct sequence into active web forms or application dialogs without manual copying and pasting.
- Dynamic Password Generator: Automatically creates incredibly complex, random passwords based on specific character sets or structural patterns. You can even use random physical mouse movements or random keyboard input as entropy seeds to guarantee absolute uniqueness for every newly created account.
- Secure Clipboard Handling: Protects your sensitive data from unauthorized background monitoring applications by automatically clearing the system clipboard a customized number of seconds after you copy a password to memory.
- True Portable Operation: Runs entirely without any deep system installation or registry modifications. With the portable version of KeePass, you can easily carry your encrypted password file and the executable application together on a standard USB thumb drive to access your vault on different computers.
- Extensive Import Capabilities: Reads and imports credential data from over 35 different formats right out of the box, making it simple to migrate your existing accounts, login lists, and CSV files from other platforms or web browsers.
Use Cases
Security-conscious individuals, privacy advocates, and professional system administrators who strictly prefer offline storage over web-based synchronization will find KeePass perfectly tailored to their daily workflow. It excels in restricted enterprise environments where privacy is an absolute priority, such as managing critical offline administrative server logins, handling confidential financial access codes, or safeguarding proprietary company data, especially since the local-only nature entirely bypasses the risks associated with remote web server breaches.
By prioritizing transparent localized encryption, deep customization, and total user autonomy over flashy subscription-based web interfaces, KeePass remains an exceptionally secure choice for managing your digital identity. Opting for this open-source credential manager ensures your sensitive information stays exactly where it belongs—firmly under your own control.
Version 2.60 — November 2025
- Added a new setting to include group paths when utilizing the quick search box (enabled by default).
- Introduced optional columns for "Group Name" and "Group Path" in the primary entry list.
- Implemented a new import tool specifically for Mozilla Firefox CSV password files.
- Added the ability to select all items simultaneously in supported list views using the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut.
- Enabled the use of the Delete key to remove selected items directly within applicable list interfaces.
- Included helpful empty state messages for list views that currently contain no items.
- Improved the quick search drop-down menu by adding full keyboard navigation support.
- Improved Bitwarden JSON imports by accurately recognizing Base32-only TOTP values as shared secrets.
- Increased the display font size when viewing time-based or HMAC-based one-time passwords for better readability.
- Enhanced accessibility by adding a tooltip to the clipboard countdown bar and making it function as an alert for screen reading software.
- Added a conflict warning dialog for users of the new French Standard AZERTY keyboard layout regarding the Ctrl+Alt+A global auto-type hotkey.
- Upgraded the ShInstUtil component to support the generation of native ARM64 images on ARM64 environments.
- Fixed an issue with the MSI installer where manual taskbar or start menu shortcuts would break during version updates.
- Temporarily disabled the quick search auto-completion feature to resolve an underlying visual bug.
