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What is keyshade?

Simple and secure secret management tool for modern developers

👋 Welcome to keyshade

What is Keyshade ?

Keyshade is a secret and environment variable manager designed for developers and teams. It helps you avoid hardcoded secrets, eliminate manual .env sharing, and keep environment configs in sync—across local setups, CI/CD pipelines, and production. Whether you're solo or working with a team, Keyshade fits into your workflow with minimal setup and maximum security.

What Can Keyshade Help With ?

Managing secrets sounds simple—until you're juggling .env files, onboarding teammates, and patching leaked tokens. Keyshade helps you solve these problems with a developer-first workflow that’s secure by design.

Keeping teams and environments in sync

  • Environment variables are often scattered across machines, CI pipelines, cloud dashboards, and shared files. It’s hard to know who has the latest version or whether your staging and production configs match.

  • Keyshade keeps everything in one place and lets you sync secrets across environments with a single command.

Preventing accidental leaks

  • It’s surprisingly easy to commit a secret by mistake. A single hardcoded token can lead to a production incident—or worse.

  • Keyshade scans your codebase for exposed credentials and helps you clean them up before they become a problem.

Making secret changes safe and trackable

  • Changing secrets manually means if something breaks after a change, it’s hard to trace what happened—or roll back.

  • Keyshade keeps a history of every change, so you can track updates, audit changes, or revert configs when needed.

Managing who gets access to what

  • Not every team member needs access to every environment or secret. But setting up fine-grained access is usually clunky or not supported at all.

  • Keyshade lets you control access per project, per environment—so devs get what they need, and nothing more.

Reducing manual effort

  • Changing something as simple as a client ID often means logging into cloud dashboards, restarting servers, or editing configs in multiple places.

  • Keyshade lets you update secrets without restarting your app and automatically pulls fresh values at runtime.

Who is Keyshade for ?

Whether you're building solo or deploying with a team, Keyshade takes the pain out of managing secrets.

  • Solo Developers – Stop copying .env files between machines. Keep everything in sync, securely.

  • Teams – Share secrets without leaking them. Everyone gets access to what they need—and nothing more.

  • CI/CD Pipelines – Inject secrets at runtime without storing them in plaintext or restarting your app.

  • Security-Minded Projects – Secrets are encrypted end-to-end and only decrypted on your machine. Even we can't see them.

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