Asking $12/yr for software seems like pulling teeth to some.

That may be your problem. We don’t ask for anything specific. We simply make a post with how much the service costs and how much users have donated. Users are smart and can take things from there.

For our instance, the users have in fact donated and keep us running. I’m not sure why you’d think users are unwilling to donate.

I don’t know if this is still the case, but we trialled LastPass enterprise around 10 years ago. They didn’t have an API. They had no intention of ever introducing an API. So, the script could spin up a database, but couldn’t store a break-glass su user into the vault without actually giving it to a human, first. Some enterprise solution. 🙄

I need to enter passwords in lots of places that aren’t a browser.

If Firefox’s password keeper meets your needs, then I would endorse using that, for sure.