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Safari to Keeper converter

Safari and Keeper both use CSV, but Keeper reads its CSV positionally with no header row, so column order is the whole format — so Keeper rejects a raw Safari export or silently files everything into the wrong fields. Drop your export below and get back a file Keeper accepts.

Convert your Safari export

Drop your Safari CSV here or click to choose a file — nothing is uploaded

The conversion runs entirely in this tab using JavaScript. Your file is never sent to a server — you can confirm it by opening your browser's Network tab, or by turning off Wi-Fi before you drop the file in. Prefer not to do this in a browser tab at all? Download the converter and run it from your own disk.

Your export file is plaintext. Both the file Safari gives you and the one you download here contain every password in readable form. Delete them as soon as the import is verified, and empty your trash.

What's actually different between the two formats

Keeper imports positionally with no header row — the columns have to be in its exact order.

Safari columnKeeper columnWhat happens
Title column 2 Renamed and repositioned
Username column 3 Renamed and repositioned
Password column 4 Renamed and repositioned
URL column 5 Renamed and repositioned
OTPAuth — none — Keeper has no 2fa secret field. Written into notes instead of dropped.
Notes column 6 Renamed and repositioned
— none — column 1 Left empty — Safari exports nothing for this.

What carries over

FieldSafariKeeperResult
Item name / title Yes Yes Carried over
Username and password Yes Yes Carried over
Website URL Yes Yes Carried over
Notes Yes Yes Carried over
Folders / groups No Yes Not in the source file
Two-factor (TOTP) secrets Yes Yes Carried over
Favorites No No Not in the source file
Custom fields No Yes Not in the source file
Multiple URLs per entry No No Not in the source file
File attachments No No Not in the source file

Step 1 — Export from Safari

  1. On macOS Sequoia or later, passwords moved to the Passwords app — open that instead of Safari.
  2. On earlier macOS: Safari → Settings → Passwords, then the ••• button → Export All Passwords.
  3. Confirm with Touch ID or your Mac login password.
  4. Save the CSV.

Watch out for

Step 2 — Convert it

Drop the file onto the converter above. It parses Safari's layout, maps each field onto the universal record, then writes Keeper's exact expected columns — including the empty ones its importer requires and, where the two differ, the right shape for 2FA secrets. You'll see a preview and a list of anything Keeper can't hold before you download.

Rather not put this file in a browser tab connected to the internet? The same converter is available as a single HTML file you can download and open with your network switched off.

Step 3 — Import into Keeper

  1. Open the Keeper Web Vault → Settings → Import.
  2. Choose "Import from file" and pick CSV.
  3. Upload the converted file. Keeper reads it positionally — there is no header row.

Official instructions: Keeper import documentation

Watch out for

Step 4 — Verify and clean up

  1. Open ten entries in Keeper at random and check them against Safari.
  2. Generate a 2FA code for one account in Keeper and confirm it matches Safari. A TOTP secret that imported wrong fails silently until you're locked out.
  3. Sign in to one real site using Keeper to confirm autofill works.
  4. Delete both CSV files and empty your trash. If your Downloads folder syncs to iCloud, OneDrive or Dropbox, confirm the deletion propagated there too.
  5. Only then close your Safari account — and change any password you suspect was exposed while the plaintext file existed.

Questions

Why won't Keeper import my Safari file directly?

Keeper imports positionally with no header row — the columns have to be in its exact order. The converter rewrites the file into Keeper's exact expected layout, including the column order and any empty columns its importer requires.

Do my passwords get uploaded anywhere?

No. The conversion is JavaScript running in your own browser tab — the file is read with the FileReader API, transformed in memory, and handed back to you as a download. There is no upload, no server-side processing and no analytics attached to the file. You can verify this by disconnecting from the internet before you drop the file in: the conversion still works.

Does anything get lost moving from Safari to Keeper?

Keeper supports every field Safari exports, so a standard login entry survives intact — name, username, password, URL, notes, folder and 2FA secret. File attachments are the exception: no CSV export from any manager includes them, so download those separately before you close your Safari account.

Will my two-factor codes still work after the move?

Yes, as long as Safari exported the secrets. Safari and Keeper store them in different shapes — one uses a bare Base32 secret, the other a full otpauth:// URI — and the converter translates between them, which is the step most manual migrations get wrong. Check a couple of codes against your old vault before you delete it, since a TOTP secret that fails to import is silent until you're locked out.

Is the export file from Safari encrypted?

No. A Safari CSV export is plaintext — every password in it is readable by anything that can open the file, including other apps on your machine and anything that syncs your Downloads folder to the cloud. Convert it, import it, then delete both files and empty your trash. If your Downloads folder syncs to iCloud, OneDrive or Dropbox, check that the deletion propagated.

Anything unusual about Safari's export?

Safari and the Passwords app share one iCloud Keychain store and one CSV layout — importing to either lands in the same place.

Anything unusual about importing into Keeper?

Keeper CSV has no header row. The column order is fixed: folder, title, login, password, website, notes, shared folder, then custom field name/value pairs. Adding a header row makes Keeper import it as an entry.

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