Given the sheer number of options for the best password managers now available, narrowing down the ones to include in this review was no easy task.įirst of all, we researched the market for all major password managers and reviewed most of them (there's a list of them at the bottom of this page). As mentioned above, password managers will also automatically generate strong, unique passwords and warn users if their passwords are weak or if they’re reusing passwords across accounts.
Using their master password, users can access their stored passwords on any device, and the password manager will autofill them on all their sites and apps. How does a password manager work?Īt their simplest, consumer-grade password managers store user passwords in an encrypted digital vault that is protected by one master password, the only password the user will ever have to remember again. They then simply store these passwords in a "vault" for access using a "master password" - so basically one password to rule them all.
Password managers also remove the mental challenge usually associated with creating near-uncrackable passwords by generating and storing them for you. And yet, the humble password manager is the tool of choice to manage our every increasing number of passwords.Įvery computer or phone user has hundreds of login and password combinations and attempting to remember all of them is near impossible, especially when for services you registered for a while back and hardly used ever since.
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