A local-first Doppler alternative for solo developers

Doppler is a cloud secrets platform built for teams: accounts, a server, and a subscription. If you're a solo developer who just wants your own .env files kept safe on your own machine, that's a lot of overhead. Envie is the local-first alternative — an encrypted desktop vault for Mac and Windows that organizes your .env files by project and environment, with no account and nothing in the cloud.

Doppler vs Envie

When Envie is the right call

Envie is honest about its scope: it doesn't do team sync or inject secrets at runtime the way Doppler's CLI does. What it does do is keep the .env files on your own machine organized and encrypted — grouped by project and environment, searchable, comparable side by side, and exportable to a clean .env whenever your stack needs one. For an individual developer who doesn't want a cloud service holding their secrets, that's the whole job.

Is Envie a drop-in replacement for Doppler?

For a solo developer managing local .env files, yes. Envie doesn't do team sync or runtime injection — if you need cloud sync across a team, keep Doppler; if you want your own .env files kept safe locally, Envie replaces it.

Does Envie sync secrets to my servers?

No. Envie is a local manager. When you need to deploy, export the environment to a clean .env file and use it however your stack expects.

Do I need an account?

No — no account, no server. Everything lives in an encrypted vault on your device.