Best Password Managers of 2023

LastPass is an excellent password manager for storing everything you need, from login credentials to addresses to credit cards.

The free version offers up the basics, such as unlimited passwords, password sharing with a friend or family member, two-factor authentication, a password generator, and password autofill. 

The drawback, however, is that the free service locks users into one device type—a computer or a mobile device, but not both. Users can switch between the two device categories, but only three times.

The Premium and Family plans, naturally, remove the device type limitations. The Premium plan targets a single user and adds 1GB of cloud storage, dark web monitoring, fingerprint and YubiKey support, a security dashboard, and the ability to share passwords with more than one friend or family member. 

The Family plan targets six users and builds upon the Premium plan with unlimited shared folders and family management.

Pros:

• Unlimited password storing
• Password sharing

Cons:

• No monthly payment option
• Only one device type supported on the free version

1Password launched in June 2006 and is similar to LastPass in terms of features.

Like its competitor, 1Password allows you to store login credentials and other sensitive data like credit cards. However, because there is no free edition, you have premium features right from the start. These include 1GB of storage, support for an unlimited number of devices, technical support, and a Travel Mode that temporarily removes data from your devices when you travel to other countries.

The Family plan builds on the Individual plan by adding support for up to five individuals. Users can set permissions and create vaults for each individual without the need for separate subscriptions. Item history backup allows users to recover deleted or changed passwords up to one year before the current date.

You can add additional people to the Family plan for $1 per person per month.

Pros:

• Supports Face ID
• Allows you to create and share custom vaults

Cons:

• No free version
• No live chat or phone support

Dashlane has been around since 2012. It’s not much different than the other password managers on our list, offering password storage, form and payment autofill, two-factor authentication, password generation, a digital wallet, and so on.

The Friends & Family plan allows users to add up to five other individuals. You can create a private account for each member and manage them all—along with the billing—through the dashboard. This plan costs $90 per year, although you can make monthly payments of $9 per month (unlike the other password managers on our list). The same goes with the Premium plan: $60 annually or $6.50 monthly.

All new accounts start users with a 30-day Premium subscription trial, expanding the services to unlimited passwords and devices. The Premium model also adds dark web monitoring and unlocks the built-in VPN feature to protect your data from eavesdroppers as it travels down the internet highways.

Dashlane still has a free version, from what we can tell, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the website. You can find the features list buried in the support articles, which includes unlimited passwords, a password generator, two-factor authentication, and more.

Pros:

• Monthly plans
• Built-in VPN (Premium)

Cons:

• Storage for only 50 passwords on the free plan
• High price for families

While Keeper Security does provide password manager plans for individuals and families, Keeper Business and Keeper Enterprise are great solutions for offices and corporations. They not only increase productivity by eliminating manual password entries but also help prevent password-related security breaches.

With Keeper Business, each user has a private encrypted password vault. All confidential information—whether it’s a file or a password—is stored as a record, each with a built-in password generator to create unique, stronger passwords as needed. Other features include shared team folders, team management, and activity reports.

Meanwhile, Keeper Security doesn’t provide pricing online for its Keeper Enterprise solution. This plan includes everything offered in Keeper Business along with automated team management, email auto-provisioning, SSO authentication (G Suite, Azure, Okta), developer APIs, and more.

Pros:

• SSO integration
• Two-factor authentication

Cons:

• Add-ons can be costly
• Dark web monitoring is extra

Siber Systems’ RoboForm has been around since 2000, although the Premium plan didn’t emerge until 2010.

The big selling point of this password manager is its fast account logins that use a single click or tap. It’s also inexpensive, making it one of the cheapest password managers on our list.

The free version is robust, supporting unlimited passwords, cloud backup, bookmark management, login shares, and more. RoboForm Premium builds upon the free version with priority live customer support and synchronization across an unlimited number of devices. A shared folder is tossed into the premium plan, while the emergency access component allows users to grant access to their accounts. The free model only enables users to receive emergency access.

The Family plan simply expands RoboForm Premium to five users.

Pros:

• Offers a free version
• Has one-click logins

Cons:

• No dark web monitoring
• No Linux desktop app

If you’re looking for a great, free password manager, Bitwarden is the one to get. It’s open-source software, meaning you’ll see many more features in the free version than others on our list while keeping the Premium and Family plans highly affordable.

Unlike other password managers on our list, this solution syncs across all devices without needing a paid subscription. Moreover, it has a self-host component, meaning you can ditch Bitwarden’s cloud service and create your own local server to store and synchronize your encrypted data blob across devices.

The Premium plan adds 1GB of cloud storage and file sharing, emergency access, vault health reports, the Bitwarden Authenticator, encrypted file attachments, and support for additional two-step solutions like YubiKey. The paid Family plan increases the user limit to six.

Pros:

• Text sharing
• Self-host component

Cons:

• No monthly plans for personal accounts
• No biometric 2FA option

The big selling point with Sticky Password is the ability to synchronize your encrypted data blob with other devices without the need for the cloud. Everything is synchronized locally using your local network, keeping your data off cloud servers for better peace of mind.

The free model includes unlimited passwords, an autofill tool, a password generator, two-factor authentication, secure notes, biometrics support, and a tool for creating a portable USB password manager for Windows devices. This latter feature allows users to install the password manager on a USB stick or memory card and access their encrypted login credentials on any Windows PC—no cloud access is required. That means no more saving passwords in a text file on your external storage device.

The Premium model adds the Wi-Fi sync component, although you can still use the cloud for backup and synchronization. Password sharing is another Premium ingredient, along with priority customer support. Finally, Lamantine Software will donate a portion of each Premium subscription to the Save the Manatee Club. Unfortunately, there is no Family plan made available at the time of this writing.

Pros:

• Wi-Fi sync option
• Biometric support

Cons:

• No Family plan
• No Wi-Fi sync in free model