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Passary.
Offline password manager.

A local-first password manager built around ownership, isolation, and zero-knowledge handling.

This is one of the product pages behind the broader projects overview. The public site is passary.com.

Ownership

The starting point is simple: password data should stay with the user by default, not in somebody else's cloud vault.

Isolation

A smaller attack surface matters. Local-first direction and tighter boundaries are part of the product logic, not decoration.

Practical security

Argon2id and AES-256-GCM are part of the current direction because the product needs a serious baseline, not vague privacy language.

Why it exists

The default never felt right.

The original problem was straightforward: cloud-first password management became normal, but that never felt like the right default to me.

I care more about ownership, tighter boundaries, and fewer unnecessary assumptions about where sensitive data should live.

That is what shaped Passary. The product direction is not about flashy password-manager marketing. It is about control, reasonable defaults, and practical security decisions.

Current focus

Browser extension direction

Desktop and mobile product decisions

Longer-term self-hosted and sharing options

Keeping the core model simple before adding surface area

Next step

If you want the general version behind this kind of product work, read the product page guide.

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