Kingfisher Alternatives
Apps similar to Kingfisher include Gitleaks, which is free and open source. Other options are AWS Lab's git-secrets, GitGuardian, truffleHog and repo-security-scanner. In total there are seven apps like Kingfisher for Mac, Windows, Linux and self-hosting.
Alternatives list
git-secrets scans commits, commit messages, and --no-ff merges to prevent adding secrets into your git repositories. If a commit, commit message, or any commit in a --no-ff merge history matches one of your configured prohibited regular expression patterns, then the commit is...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity startup focusing on code security solutions for the DevOps generation. A leader in the market of secrets detection and remediation, its solutions are already used by hundred thousands developers in all industries.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)

Searches through git repositories for secrets, digging deep into commit history and branches. This is effective at finding secrets accidentally committed.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a git repo, eg passwords, private keys - UKHomeOffice/repo-security-scanner
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

detect-secrets is an aptly named module for (surprise, surprise) detecting secrets within a code base.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

Gitrob is a tool to help find potentially sensitive files pushed to public repositories on Github. Gitrob will clone repositories belonging to a user or organization down to a configurable depth and iterate through the commit history and flag files that match signatures for...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux























