Energetic salts as a unique class of energetic materials arereadily modified to improve their detonation properties through the appropriate combination of different cations and anions.In this review, a brief introduction to the latest developments in the field of energetic salts synthesis over the past few years.These energetic salts generally exhibit desirable properties and per-formance, which in some cases are superior to those of the common energetic materials HMX, RDX, TNT and TATB. Furthermore, the development direction and trend of synthetic research of the energetic salts are discussed.