# Bramble Bramble is a local-first, open-source password manager born from a frustration I share: cloud password vaults put your most sensitive data at the whims of venture-funded companies, recurring price hikes, and breach disclosures that keep revealing unencrypted metadata. The author's answer: no cloud copy at all. Devices find each other through a Nostr relay (self-hostable), which only performs the introduction; the actual data flows device-to-device over WebRTC, end-to-end encrypted, with devices authenticating each other directly. There is no vault server. A snooping or man-in-the-middle relay gets practically nothing. So you keep cross-device sync, the one feature that usually justifies the cloud, without the cloud. It ships as a Chrome extension and Android app (iOS pending review at the time of writing this), and recent versions store passkeys on all platforms. But the author is anonymous, and the tool is fully vibe-coded. So I'm not going to use this anytime soon... ## References - GitHub: https://github.com/flythenimbus/bramble - Show HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766242 ## Related - [[Self-hosting]] - [[Vibe Coding]]