Capy
Shares rank 16 of 20 secrets managers by recommenders
Developers recommend Capy for cryptographically revoking locally stored secrets remotely, a flexible CLI, and fast token generation on suitable setups.
Developers recommend Capy for cryptographically revoking locally stored secrets remotely, a flexible CLI, and fast token generation on suitable setups.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cryptographically revokes local secrets remotely
“Capy is the only solution I know of that allows you to cryptographically revoke access to those .env files in real time.”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Capy – A Git-style platform for managing your team's secrets” “The design is also pretty unique in that it can be used to cryptographically revoke local secrets remotely.”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Capy – A Git-style platform for managing your team's secrets” Faster token generation speed
“it does seem to make up for that with faster token generation speed”
Comment from 17 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: Capy-flash – a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs” “On the right setups it's faster than strata”
Comment from 17 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: Capy-flash – a 125B MoE model on two 16 GB consumer GPUs”
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The four most recommended other secrets managers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OneCLI | 39 | 8 | 83% | 6 | — | Approved |
| SOPS | 28 | 5 | 85% | 10 | — | Approved |
| HashiCorp Vault | 26 | 10 | 72% | 10 | — | Approved |
| fnox | 20 | 4 | 83% | 9 | — | Approved |
| CapyThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“On the right setups it's faster than strata”
“it does seem to make up for that with faster token generation speed”
“the confidence that everything stays local”
“Capy is the only solution I know of that allows you to cryptographically revoke access to those .env files in real time.”
“For ergonomics, Capy is built from the ground up as a CLI, which means it's extremely flexible in where you want to use it.”
“The design is also pretty unique in that it can be used to cryptographically revoke local secrets remotely.”
“haven't really been impressed”
“capy uses Gtk+ on Linux, so it's a no-go for me”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.