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I'm puzzled that OP seems stumped on syncing keepass when they're already using syncthing. I've been using keepass+syncthing for years, and I've never had any issues.

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I've been using Syncthing + KeePass for a few no this now after leaving Bitwarden. I do find that I often get sync conflicts, though; I think it's because I will open Keepass on my computer, then on my phone while forgetting to close the one on the computer, but I'm not sure.

any suggestions?

my keepassxc syncs without closing, it autosaves changes and they get directly synced. i tested in the beginning leaving apps on on mutiple pcs and syncs landed pretty quick.

unless you make changes on the same db on two different devices in under 1minute you shouldnt get any problems

I considered KeePass+ Synching but tended to run into the same issues as with Owntracks - Android is hostile to always on background apps. Then when it came time to onboard my spouse, KeePass wasn't an option.

Both Android and iOS have issues with syncthing here for my obsidian syncing and it drives me nuts.

I don't understand how people keep recommending Syncthing like it's a magical solution. It is not, it fails constantly, has weird, unfixed upstream bugs if you use encryption. It's definitely a maintenance burden as well.

Do you have a use case to share some credentials with family etc.? How do you do that?

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