Yopass
Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 410 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 16.0.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Pastebins: Pastebin alternatives.
At a glance
Yopass quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 3,212
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 16.0.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Top alternatives to Yopass
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Yopass is an open source, self-hosted service for sharing passwords, files, and other sensitive information. The browser encrypts your secret before it reaches the server and the decryption key is never stored with the secret."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Yopass scores 94/100, #5 of 25 in Pastebins: 410 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (16.0.1, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 3,212 stars add 14.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 6.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
410 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
16.0.1 released 7 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.0 / 20
3.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 410
- Last 90 days
- 1,218
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 25 tools in Pastebins by health , between Password Pusher (#4) and Wastebin (#6) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | 16.0.1 · 7 days ago |
| Stars | 3,212 |
| Open issues | 1 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | jhaals/yopass ↗ |
Yopass vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Yopass (Pastebins), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yopass (this tool) | 94 | 3.2k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 015 | 91 | 422 | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 1time | 88 | 82 | MIT | yesterday |
| snowshare | 88 | 91 | CC0-1.0 | 2 days ago |
| Local Content Share | 51 | 492 | MIT | 9 months ago |
| pacebin | 10 | 0 | AGPL-3.0 | 1.1 years ago |
Yopass: common questions
Is Yopass still maintained?
Yopass had 410 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, 16.0.1, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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