Password managers
Group test
Password managers
Store your online passwords safely and securely
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We’re way beyond the stage of explaining why you can no longer rely on a few memorable passwords to secure your online accounts. Indeed, it may no longer even be enough to ensure you’re generating and storing passwords that are impermeable to both guessing and brute-force attacks without making them impossible to manage.
Today’s password managers, therefore, must do more than simply provide a secure and convenient way to retrieve your long, strong and unique passwords. You need a reliable tool that offers additional layers of protection, from one-time protection (OTP) codes to passwordless passkeys.
In this group test, we’ve evaluated Apple’s new Passwords app against a range of options that offer you varying degrees of extra features and choices, from what other sensitive data can be stored to the user-friendliness of the apps and their web browser plug-ins. We also focused on the security of your password vault – how does it get synced, and can you lock it in such a way that discovering your master password isn’t enough to gain access? Here’s what we found out.
Group test
Reviewed by NICK PEERS
ON TEST…
> 1Password
> Bitwarden
> Enpass
> Passwords
> Secrets
> Strongbox
How we tested
We evaluated each password manager’s core features and assessed their ease of setup, use, and management. Security is obviously a key feature, so we also checked to see how much control you have over your password vault’s location and how secure you can make it to ward off potential hackers.