Envite

Encrypted vaults for environment variables and .env files — share secrets with your team, keep them on disk or on a server over SSH, and deploy .env files from a fast terminal UI.

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Envite is a terminal application that keeps the environment variables of your projects in a single encrypted .envite file. Every team member opens it with their own password, the file can live on your disk, in a synced folder or on a server over SSH, and concurrent edits merge on save. When an environment is ready, envite shows a key-by-key diff and writes its .env file to the target, locally or over SSH.

Quick install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kevinsillo/envite/main/install.sh | bash

• A single static binary for Linux x86_64, no runtime dependencies, installed to ~/.local/bin after checking its SHA-256; envite --version prints the installed version.
• The system ssh client is used for remote vaults and deploys.
• envite update installs the latest release after checking its SHA-256 (it needs curl). Once a day at startup envite also looks for a new version and offers it; turn that off in Options.

Version, install directory, manual download and updating → Installation

Core concepts

Term	Meaning
Vault	One encrypted file with all your projects and their members.
Project	An application, with its own details (author, license, description…).
Environment	A deployment of a project (production, staging…), with its own .env target.
Section	A titled group of variables inside an environment, with an optional comment.
Variable	A KEY=value pair with a comment, secret masking and an enabled / disabled / commented state.
History	Every change is recorded with who made it, when and which fields changed: browse it for the whole vault or a project, filtered by member, item type or action, or below each variable. Secret values are never shown.
Deploy	Render the .env file of an environment, preview the diff and write it atomically, with a backup.

Quick start

1. Run envite and press n to create a vault: a name, a location and your first member with a password.
2. Press n on Projects, then go down with Enter to create an environment, its sections and variables.
3. On Environments, press p to preview the deploy of the .env file, then Enter and confirm to write it.
4. Add teammates from Users (u); they add the vault file with o on the home screen.

Walkthrough → First start

Key shortcuts

Key	Action
Ctrl-G	Show the keys of the current screen
n / e / d	New, edit, delete
/	Filter the list
v / Ctrl-V	Reveal or hide a secret value
p / i	Deploy / import a .env file (environments)
c	Resolve conflicts with changes saved elsewhere
Ctrl-L	Lock the vault
Ctrl-C	Save, close and quit

Full list → Keyboard shortcuts

This repository

This repository hosts the documentation site (Astro Starlight, deployed to GitHub Pages), the installer (install.sh) and the binary releases. The source code of envite is kept in a private repository.

pnpm install
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License

Freeware: the envite binaries are free to download and use, for personal and commercial purposes; the source code is not public. The binaries and the texts of this repository are covered by the envite license. Each release lists the licenses of the third-party components it includes in THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md.