Keepass synchronisation on macOS with pCloud

Some basic info on my workflow.

Apps used & Apps tried

I am using Keepass .kdbx database (version 4.0) and pCloud provider for synchronisation.

Windows

KeePass ✅: THE original. There's no real reason for using anything else.

macOS

MacPass ✅: In my opinion, the very best solution. Native app with many nice features, supports everything KeePassXC does, and it has a 1/10th of its size and launches blazingly fast. And its open‑source. Yay!
KeePassXC: Cross‑platform solution I did use for a long time. Very good one, but – it is not a native macOS app and you will feel it time to time.
Strongbox: I did not personally test it, but it was mentioned multiple times in this reddit thread, so it might be worth trying. From the screenshots, it looks better than MacPass, but I like the open‑source feature of MacPass.

iOS

KeePassium ✅: Simply the best. Perfect, open‑source and even free for majority of “home” uses.
~~KyPass~~: I have been using this app before for quite some time, but with every new major version number of the app, the developer creates a completely new app ID, thus forcing you to buy it again and again (because he removes the previous app versions from AppStore). After three different versions bought, I gave up. Also, from the design point of view, it really feels crappy.

Setting up KeePassium for cloud-shared password database

To connect KeePassium with your database, you have basically two options:

Native connection via Files app: KeePassium supports many sync sources through integration of cloud services under “Locations” in iOS Files app (and pCloud is fully supported)
Connection through WebDAV: This is a slightly more technical solution, but it works.

WebDAV connection to pCloud-shared database

To connect KeePassium with my database, I use WebDAV connection to my pCloud storage. The native integration of cloud services under “Locations” in iOS Files app was causing me problems: after each database save in KeePassXC, KeePassium could not find the file.¹⁾

To set up a WebDAV database in KeePassium, you have to provide the URL and your credentials. For pCloud, the WebDAV URL depends on your data region – the host is:

either webdav.pcloud.com (for US),
or ewebdav.pcloud.com (for EU).

The full URL then is the following:

https://webdav.pcloud.com:443/<path>/<to>/<database>/<folder>

Note that the URL has to be the folder containing the database, not the full path to the database itself – otherwise, you will see an error: The folder is empty.

Comments

¹⁾

As I realised later, this has a simple solution documented there, but in the meantime, I started using MacPass together with WebDAV‑synced KeePassium, so this was no longer an issue for me.