# Count characters in KeepassXC pass

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/count-characters-in-keepassxc-pass/31357
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-09-24T21:05:35Z
**Posts:** 13

## Post 1 by @cooldude — 2025-09-24T21:05:35Z

Anyone knows how to count how many characters a password in a KeepassXC database has? I would like to see the character count sometimes and I don’t see a way to do this without leaking the password or manually counting the \*\*\*\*’s which is insane

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## Post 2 by @anonymous429 — 2025-09-24T21:14:56Z

double click on any entry, then beside the the password field you will see an icon that generates password click on it you will see characters count.

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## Post 3 by @cooldude — 2025-09-24T21:30:02Z

But that’s to generate new password I think. I just want to count the chars on an existing pass.

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## Post 4 by @anonymous420 — 2025-09-24T22:22:09Z

You’re gonna have to manually do this by copy-and-pasting that existing password into the password generator. The generator has a character counter. Just backspace the generated password and paste in your copied password.

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## Post 5 by @donutfreak — 2025-09-24T23:51:43Z

You can get kind of close. Do a search for:

is:weak

Then sort on the Password Strength field as you wish. That will get you close.

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## Post 6 by @cooldude — 2025-09-25T02:51:48Z

Where is the character counter? I only see an “entropy counter” but I don’t see the number of chars as you type anywhere.

> [@donutfreak](#):
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> You can get kind of close. Do a search for:
> 
> is:weak
> 
> Then sort on the Password Strength field as you wish. That will get you close.

I need to count the exact number of characters on a password.

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## Post 7 by @donutfreak — 2025-09-25T03:13:24Z

It’s factored into is:weak and that calculation. But as you want the character length, that isn’t obviously available.

Consider a CSV export and pull it into a spreadsheet, dropping extraneous columns, Then do the ‘length’ function to compute. Kind of a hassle though.

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## Post 8 by @cooldude — 2025-09-25T05:50:56Z

That would leak the password.

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## Post 9 by @donutfreak — 2025-09-25T07:02:52Z

On your local machine? Where would the password leak to?

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## Post 10 by @cooldude — 2025-09-25T15:42:03Z

Yeah, on your local machine. I don’t really want the password outside of the encrypted database because once it hits a text editor you never know in how many random temporary files you didn’t expect the passwords end up.

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## Post 11 by @cooldude — 2025-09-26T17:13:30Z

anyway I cannot edit the first post but turns out I was using an older 2.6x version which did not have the character counter as well as the encryption settings tab.

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## Post 12 by @anonymous420 — 2025-09-26T18:09:13Z

> [@cooldude](#):
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> anyway I cannot edit the first post but

It’s actually just better to mark the post as solved rather than edit the original post.

> [@cooldude](#):
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> I was using an older 2.6x version

I was wondering why you couldn’t find it. Please keep all apps up to date. Not only does this introduce new features that you may want, it lessens the chances of you becoming a victim of security vulnerabilities and bugs.

Also, I wonder why you want to count the characters? Is it for evaluating password strength? I think the standard way for measuring strength is with [information entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength#Entropy_as_a_measure_of_password_strength).

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## Post 13 by @cooldude — 2025-09-26T21:18:30Z

Its just to guarantee the password actually fits in the password box. some services allow 64, others 128 and i think others even longer