Extract text from KEYCHAIN files
To convert your KEYCHAIN file to another format, you need Keychain Access or other Database software.
To convert other file formats to the "Encrypted Password Database" file type, you need software like Keychain Access or a similar tool.
The .KEYCHAIN file is a proprietary, encrypted database used by macOS to store sensitive user credentials, including web passwords, network shares, credit card numbers, and SSL certificates. While vital for the Apple ecosystem, this format is a definition of vendor lock-in. It is essentially a binary black box that uses your system login credentials as a decryption key.
Users typically encounter friction when migrating from a Mac to a Windows PC or switching to a cross-platform password manager. A raw .KEYCHAIN file cannot be opened by standard text editors, database viewers, or Windows applications. It is useless without the specific macOS version and user credentials that created it.
For password migration, the only practical conversion target is CSV (Comma Separated Values), which allows import into managers like 1Password or Bitwarden. For security certificates, the standard conversion target is PEM or P12 for use in web servers or development environments.
Convert.Guru analyzes your KEYCHAIN file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted KEYCHAIN-DB, KEY, CRYPT7, EPSQL and PIN files.
If you want to convert KEYCHAIN file to PIN, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or DB, you can use Keychain Access or similar software from the "Secure Credential Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to KEYCHAIN, try Keychain Access or another comparable tool in the "Secure Credential Storage" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our KEYCHAIN converter.