passbolt Reviews & Product Details

Passbolt is an open-source credential platform built for IT teams, yet easy to use for the whole organisation. It helps organisations manage passwords, secrets, and privileged credentials from one place, with granular access controls, end-to-end encryption, auditability, and the choice to self-host or use Passbolt Cloud. Built for collaboration, Passbolt lets teams securely share individual credentials, groups of credentials, or folders, while controlling who can read, update, or manage access. It supports technical workflows through its API, while keeping the interface accessible for employees across the organisation. Key capabilities include: - Granular, item-level credential sharing and permissions - Self-hosted or Cloud managed deployment options - Open-source Community and Pro editions under the AGPL v3 licence - Independent security audits published multiple times per year. - European hosting options and self-hosting for organisations that need greater control over their data Security by design. Audited and certified: - True end-to-end encryption; - Interoperable cryptography based on OpenPGP; - Full control your own encryption key; - Access revocation that actually works; - Regularly audited by independent auditors. - Audited SOC 2 Type II Made in Europe.  Privacy by default: - Host it in our cloud, located in Europe; - Or self-host it for full data ownership; - No tracker, no strings attached. Passbolt is used by IT, DevOps, security, and compliance teams that need secure credential collaboration without giving up transparency, control, or data sovereignty. It can start with technical teams managing infrastructure secrets and expand across the organisation for everyday password and credential management.

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German, English, French, Swedish

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What is passbolt, and what problem is it built to solve?

passbolt is an open-source password manager for teams and businesses to securely store and share credentials. It supports collaborative password management within an organization and is available as a self-hosted or cloud-based solution.

What languages does passbolt support?

passbolt supports 4 languages: English, French, German, and Swedish.

What company sizes is passbolt designed for?

passbolt is designed for teams of all sizes.

Which industries is passbolt built to serve?

passbolt is built to serve a broad range of industries, targeting 139 industries.

Does passbolt offer an open API, and what does it integrate with?

passbolt offers an open API, which lets teams connect their own systems and workflows.

What support options are available, and is live/human support included?

Support options include chat, email/help desk, and phone support, with 24/7 live-rep support.

What training resources are available to help teams get started?

Available training resources include:

In Person
Documentation
Live Online
Webinars

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Verified User in Security and Investigations

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/8/2020

"Great software to manage passwords"

4.5/5

What do you like best about passbolt?

It is very easy to use and simple but still does the job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about passbolt?

Sometimes the search feature does not function properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Claudio D.

ICT manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/17/2019

"Easy-to-use password keeping and sharing"

4/5

What do you like best about passbolt?

Easy to setup and quite easy to use also for non technical people. The setup took only a few minutes while the first login attempt was a little more complicated but once understood I was able to put down an easy to use step by step guide for my colleagues who were then able to use it immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about passbolt?

The first login process is a little too complicated to understand at first glance. Once understood how it works it was then easy to replicate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering passbolt:

It's a good product. Does what it says it will do, probably nothing more surely nothing less. Easy to setup in house. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is passbolt solving and how is that benefiting you?

Most password related issues like users forgetting their password or improved team working experience between users who need to share some passwords. No more emails to delete or pieces of paper. All neat in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sebastian H.

Senior Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/18/2019

"When you need a no-thrills solution to organize passwords in your company!"

3.5/5

What do you like best about passbolt?

We can run it on our own server and don't rely on critical information being "somewhere in the cloud". Apart from that it's easier to use than having, for example, a shared KeePass file that everyone has access to on a mapped drive. Together with the browser-addon and its auto-fill in the latest version, it's just a convenient way for us to store credentials and share them with the colleagues that need them. It does one job and it does it well! Being not only open source but also audited for security is an added bonus because it makes sure the code is actually what it claims to be and not some hidden magic-box that you have to trust blindly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about passbolt?

While it's fine that enterprise features like AD-Integration etc are only available in the non-free version, some smaller QoL stuff could really get unlocked in the community edition, mainly the option to use either folders or tags to organize credentials because no matter the size of the team, once you use a password manager daily it fills up quickly and a better way to organize / filter them than the included search is needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering passbolt:

If all you need is secure storage for passwords on your own infrastructure, give the community edition a try! If you want one user to have access on multiple machines to his account, you have to 'cheat' a little bit: Create multiple accounts, for example account.name+laptop@company.tld account.name+workstation@company.tld account.name+phone@company.tld and group them. Because the extension and private key is linked to one machine, you have to use such workarounds to be able to use PB on multiple machines at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is passbolt solving and how is that benefiting you?

Organizing credentials and managing access to them is crucial not just for an IT business but for everyone out there. While other solutions may have some more comfort-features, Passbolt solves those problems even in the community / free edition so a small company like us won't break the bank and can still benefit from having critical data stored on our own servers and never leaving the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Maurizio C.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/25/2019

"Best openPGP password storage tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about passbolt?

Easy deployment even on virtualized environment and powerful sharing with users/teams features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about passbolt?

It can't be used on mobile devices because is not possible to download and install on Firefox or Chrome mobile the required passbolt extension to sign-in Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.