What's in Buddy today
Every screen below is the shipping app on macOS or Windows. Nothing here is a roadmap item.
Custom fields & sections
Most password managers make you pick a predefined entry type: login, credit card, database, identity, email, server, address. The list never ends, and the one you want is never on it.
Buddy lets you compose an entry instead, from three pieces:
- Custom fields hold whatever you need: text, notes, secrets, secret notes, and encrypted file attachments.
- Sections group related fields, so a router's admin login, its wifi password and the ISP account number live in one record instead of three.
- Field roles unlock richer editing and autofill: username with suggestions from your other entries, password with the generator attached, two-factor from a URI, file or screen capture, and tags.
One-click fill in the browser
Buddy's extensions for Chrome and Firefox talk to the desktop app on the same machine over a local channel, so the browser never holds a vault of its own. Open a site, click the matching login, and it's filled. Sign up somewhere new and the extension offers to save the login before you leave the page.
Get the browser extensionYour 2FA codes, next to the logins they unlock.
Buddy generates TOTP codes itself, so there is no separate authenticator app to juggle. Codes tick down right inside the entry, ready to copy.
To add one, drag Buddy's capture window over the QR code a website shows you. The secret is read off the screen and stored, encrypted, in the right entry. No phone camera involved.
Import from the manager you use now.
Export from 1Password, Apple Passwords, LastPass, Bitwarden, Dashlane, Keeper, or Proton Pass, or pull the passwords saved in Chrome and Firefox. Drop the file on Buddy and the format is detected automatically, and generic CSV covers anything else. Export formats shows which fields survive from each manager, and the 1Password guide walks through a move.
The whole vault exports at any time, attachments included, and the published vault format means reading it does not require a copy of Buddy.
Your vault is a file on your disk.
Every entry is encrypted before it's written, and it never leaves your machine. The only things Buddy sends over the network are a license check and an update check, and neither carries anything from the vault or about how the app is used.
Read the full security model →See it on your own machine.
Every feature above is in the free 30-day trial.
v1.3.0 macOS & Windows