# Capy

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Capy and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Developers recommend Capy for cryptographically revoking locally stored secrets remotely, a flexible CLI, and fast token generation on suitable setups.

## Why people recommend it

- Cryptographically revokes local secrets remotely (2 comments): "Capy is the only solution I know of that allows you to cryptographically revoke access to those .env files in real time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189847)) "The design is also pretty unique in that it can be used to cryptographically revoke local secrets remotely." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188351))
- Faster token generation speed (2 comments): "it does seem to make up for that with faster token generation speed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127836)) "On the right setups it's faster than strata" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129309))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [fnox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fnox.md): 20 recommend
- [Infisical](https://hackerapproved.com/p/infisical.md): 17 recommend
- [enveil](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enveil.md): 13 recommend
- [dotenvx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dotenvx.md): 10 recommend
- [Varlock](https://hackerapproved.com/p/varlock.md): 8 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://capy.ai/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Capy", https://hackerapproved.com/p/capy/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).