I Migrated My Passwords From Keepassxc to Password.app

Published under Mango Paper, Jun 2, 2025

I spent about an hour migrating ~500 passwords from KeePassXC to Password.app yesterday. Here is my process:

• Initially, I was afraid the export & import process might lose data (e.g. notes). Since there is no "preview" state in Password.app, if something is missing among my hundreds of records, it's very difficult to find and undo.
• I picked the important ones and migrated them manually.
• Before migrating everything, I did two trial runs to import 10 records at a time and verified that the data were correct.
• After everything was imported, I ended up with ~200 "reused" passwords because I had been using both password managers for a while. Password.app doesn't tell you which records are sharing the same password, and I had to manually check, delete, or merge them.
• I saved a backup copy of the encrypted .kdbx file in case something went wrong, though I don't expect to ever need it.