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  "name": "Bramble",
  "use_label": "Personal password vault, no account",
  "one_liner": "Password manager with no account: devices sync peer-to-peer; extension, desktop, mobile",
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    "why": "Cloud password managers keep everyone's vault on one server; Bramble keeps the vault on your own devices and syncs it directly between them, peer-to-peer and end-to-end encrypted. A single Rust core does all cryptography, compiled to WebAssembly in the browser and to a native library on iOS and Android, using Argon2id and AES-256-GCM. Passkeys are stored as ordinary vault entries, so they sync along with everything else.",
    "take": "A password manager that says up front there is no forgot-password button; the recovery code and a second synced device are the safety net.",
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      "You can point it at an S3-compatible bucket or your own WebDAV server for scheduled ciphertext-only backups, or import a KeePass KDBX4 database and get browser and mobile autofill on top. Modified redistributions must stay GPL-3.0."
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      {
        "role": "People wary of cloud vaults",
        "situation": "keep the vault on your devices and sync peer-to-peer"
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        "role": "KeePass users",
        "situation": "import KDBX4 and gain browser and mobile autofill"
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        "situation": "scheduled encrypted backups to S3-compatible or WebDAV storage"
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        "text": "# Browser: install Bramble from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons"
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        "text": "brew install --cask bramble   # macOS desktop app (Linux: APT repository, AppImage, .deb/.rpm or Nix flake)"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "# iOS: App Store / Android: APK from GitHub Releases"
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        "command": false,
        "text": "# Store the recovery code shown at vault setup somewhere offline"
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      "Licence GPL-3.0. Free, no account, subscription or telemetry (donations only).",
      "The Windows desktop app is unreleased pending code signing (the extension works on Windows). The desktop app lacks Touch ID, passkeys, KeePass export, auto-type into native apps and an SSH agent for now.",
      "Lose the password, security key and recovery code and the vault is gone. Latest desktop release 0.8.0 as of 2026-09-15; 383 stars."
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    "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.",
    "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.",
    "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.",
    "Reconstructed from archive data, not a live discovery.",
    "A summary, not legal advice."
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