KeePassXC vs RoboForm Comparison

• Premium (individual, 1-year): $29.88 per year
• Family (5 accounts, 1-year): $47.75 per year

First-level security certification of KeePassXC 2.7.9 on Windows — full source-code review, penetration testing of every security function, and cryptographic and random-number-generator analysis

The database is encrypted with AES-256 by default (Twofish and ChaCha20 are also selectable) in the KDBX 4 format, with an HMAC-SHA-256 integrity check that detects tampering. The master key is derived with Argon2d by default — a memory-hard function that resists GPU and ASIC cracking — with the older AES-KDF still available. The composite master key can combine a password, a key file, and a YubiKey or OnlyKey challenge-response secret.

The vault is encrypted client-side with AES-256 using a key derived from the Master Password via PBKDF2 with SHA-256 and a random 32-byte salt, at 1,000,000 iterations by default — the same order of magnitude as the highest iteration counts in this category, though PBKDF2 remains a non-memory-hard KDF unlike Argon2. Only a one-way, server-side password derived from the Master Password is ever sent to RoboForm's servers; all encryption and decryption happens locally.

Volunteer, community-run open-source project under the keepassxreboot organization on GitHub — no company and no venture funding behind it. Development is paid for by donations. Forked from KeePassX in 2016; the KeePass lineage goes back to 2003.

Privately held and independently operated since RoboForm's original 2000 release; not venture-backed and never acquired. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, led by CEO Vadim Maslov. Siber Systems also makes GoodSync, a file-synchronization product, alongside RoboForm.