I used to use the same password for most of my accounts. Just set up Bitwarden this week and realized how many accounts I had forgotten about. What password management are you using? Or still prefer to write down the password on an actual notebook?
Interested in learning what PW manager people use , and most of all, what their favorite thing about their PW manager
I’ve been trying different password managers lately and noticed many people still prefer RoboForm, Bitwarden, 1Password, Proton Pass, etc.
Curious to know what everyone here is currently using and why. Are you mainly focused on privacy, pricing, features, browser integration, autofill reliability, or something else?
We’re also hosting a small giveaway for 2 RoboForm Premium licenses for first time new users over at r/TechImpact if anyone is interested:
Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences with different password managers.
Here is my overview of what the deciding factors were because I couldn't really see any product differentiation.
Server Location
We're in Australia so the servers had to be based in either AU NZ or Europe as generally US and China have incompatible laws with data privacy.
Breach Track Record
It's all publically available and if they have 0 Knowledge architecture it reduces your risk even futher
Pricing
Bitwardens is open source so it was by far the cheapest.
Doing a trial in one week so will update the post if I notice any problems with it
So, I just found out that there's going to be a price hike on 1Password. I read it was $12, but as you can see, it just increased by around $30 for me, based in Pakistan. The prices in the screenshot are in PKR, and they increased threefold.
I want to switch to a new password manager, but it should have cross-platform support, and a lifetime subscription would be nice too.
1Password just bumped Individual to $47.88/yr (was $35.88). That pushed me off the fence.
Spent a few weeks actually using 3 alternatives. What I picked:
Strongbox Pro — $99.99 one-time. Open KeePass format, vault file portable across devices.
Trade-off: no shared family vault out of the box.
Password Manager Data Vault — $9.99 one-time. AES + iCloud sync + Face ID. Smaller integration ecosystem than 1Password, but if you live in iOS the gap is narrow.
Password Manager: Safe — $7.99 one-time Pro tier. Vault encrypts to your own cloud (iCloud / Dropbox / Drive / OneDrive/ WebDAV). Cheapest of the three.
What's everyone else moving to after the hike?
Today morning i got continous 4 to 5 mails saying my discord steam all were compromised….i acted fast and tried to secure my gmail with double factor authentication but it was already active and then i activated code activation ….my questions is theere a way i can know how my account was compromised…..ihave tried haveibeen pawned….i didnt get any usefull info from that
Rant below aside, I'm looking for a good personal password manager. I use it primarily for form filling, payment info, and of course, passwords and credentials.
UI and ease/speed of use is really my biggest concern, as I see all the ones recommended here are plenty secure enough. I access literally hundreds of applications for my work and the time adds up fast when logging in is a process. It sounds like bitwarden and 1password are pretty high up there in recommendations, but bitwarden might be a bitess polished?
I've use Dashlane for many years and brought a few of my businesses into the application suite over time. I used my personal account's referral link to invite hundreds of users accounts to the platform. As a result, I was meant to have free Dashlane access for years as thanks for bringing in so many paying customers to a platform I loved.
For whatever reason, that was cut short today and my personal account now says that Dashlane free was discontinued with no prior notice and all I have access to do is export my data.
I appreciate any and all suggestions!
i created an account set up almost everything but i forgot to pay. one month later the account is frozen obviously, but the price now is about twice what it is advertised on website. am i missing something? do they have a support email or just that ai bot?
I do feel kinda dumb for how many hours I spent memorizing weird symbols in my passwords, thinking I was being "unhackable". Now I'm seeing this in an article and it wasn't actually protecting me from anything. because having an 8 or 10 character password with numbers and symbols is actually weaker then just using a super long 15+ character passphrase that's just random words.
and it's (mostly) all about raw computing power that changed things recently. like, if your password is only 8 characters its basically instant for a modern rig to guess it. the pic mentions these rigs do over 100 billion guesses per second which is just... how is that even possible lol. its actually terrifying. basically 15 characters is the new "floor" for security now according to NIST.
already started moving everything to longer passphrases and finally bothered to turn on MFA for my secondary accounts. apparently MFA blocks like 99.9% of automated attacks so idk why i waited this long. anyway just a sudden realization that my "complex" 8-10 character mess was actually trash.
We've been using Passwork on-prem for about a year now and no complaints about the tool itself so far, but lately our team has been stretched thin and maintaining the server is starting to feel like a chore that nobody wants to own. I know Passwork has a proper cloud option and im tempted to switch but I have some concerns that are holding me back:
Im not ideologically attached to on-prem, I just went with it originally because it felt safer at the time. But if cloud is genuinely just as secure and saves us the operational overhead im open to it. Would appreciate any real-world experience here, not vendor marketing. Thanks
I mainly store all my passwords in the built-in password manager of Mozilla Firefox. Later, I also started importing them into Google Password Manager as a backup.
The problem is that I now have too many passwords, and every time I import them into Google, some of them get duplicated. On top of that, Google doesn’t let me delete them all at once; I have to remove them one by one.
I’m looking for a password manager that allows me to delete all passwords in a single action so I can start from scratch whenever necessary. Any recommendations?
i have deleted a lot of old passwords that I iimported from another app. On iPhone they are deleted but not on iPad.
Also passwords Ihave changed are different.
anyone knows if there is a time delay in the update ?
it is the same iCloud account.
