What password manager do you recommend?

Okay so yesterday, I changed my password as a precaution because of the hack, and just now I decided to clean my browser tabs and re login and almost forgot my password. I’m done dealing with passwords.

What password manager do you recommend?

Features I’m looking for

-Open Source

-Can be synced to cloud (I don’t want self host)

-Can be accessed via a browser

-Cross platform, the more platforms, the better

-End to End Encrypted, and Encrypted at rest on my device, also need some way to authenticate before releasing the password, like a pin or biometrics

-Autofill for browser and apps

-Free (can be a freemium model, but I need the base tier to be free, too broke to spend money on this lol)

-Can export the passwords to a file

I never used a password manager before so sorry if I seem like a noob.

I know I could google it, but I want the lastest info, not some outdated reddit post.

Edit: Woah, those replies are fast. I think I’ll use Bitwarden. Thanks for recommendations! Now I don’t need to worry about forgetting passwords anymore. 😄

Edit 2: It seems I’ve forgotten my email password as well as a few other accounts I haven’t logged into for a while. Damn, should’ve used a password manager earlier.

Curious_Canid,
@Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ve been using KeePass since the dawn of time. There are now other good options too, but I haven’t seen any compelling reason to switch. It does everything I need both securely and well.

ablackcatstail,
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I am a fan of Vault Warden.

Fisch,
@Fisch@lemmy.ml avatar

He specifically stated that he doesn’t want to self host

xtremeownage,

Vault warden. (Implements bitwarden).

Works with bitwarden apps / browser plugins. Locally hosted. Rust.

DuskLoaf,
@DuskLoaf@lemmy.world avatar

I use a mixture of Bitwarden and KeepassXC.

BW for most uses KP for things I only want local copies of ^^

burningmatches,

I just can’t get past the name of KeepAss…

DuskLoaf,
@DuskLoaf@lemmy.world avatar

Best not to think too hard on it

ChrV,
@ChrV@kbin.social avatar

Last year I tried (and paid) 1Password.
For the past 6 months I'm using Bitwarden and it's really good. I find 1Password's UI better but if we consider the cost it's better to stay with Bitwarden.

Swuden,

1Password isn’t open source, is it? I use it and I’m super happy with it though. I don’t mind paying a bit for good security. I do wish it was OSS though.

ChrV,
@ChrV@kbin.social avatar

No I don't think it is. I was super happy too but I decided to give Bitwarden a fair try and it's really good too. I only miss the 2FA codes that 1Password filled automatically but I'm using Aegis now since I had some worries about having one app with both the passwords and 2fa codes.

Onionizer,

Bitwarden can auto copy the 2FA code so you just hit ctrl+v

ChrV,
@ChrV@kbin.social avatar

Not in the free version unless I'm mistaken

skatrek47,

I have also really enjoyed 1password, I also subscribe to Fastmail and the easy to make “masked emails” gives me additional peace of mind and makes that practice of unique or throwaway emails much easier to implement.

Dirk,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Since you don’t want to selfhost anyway just use the one built-in to your browser. Nowadays you can set up synch with a password

Coreidan,

Terrible idea. Never use your browser to save passwords. Way too easy to hack.

Dirk,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

I am pretty sure you can provide reliable sources that are not one blog article by one individual telling their opinion.

If it’s really “way too easy to hack” there should be plenty of souces.

ebits21, (edited )
@ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

There’s only two real choices imo.

Bitwarden or Keepass (KeePassXC for desktop, you’ll need one of many app choices for your phone).

Keepass you would sync to your own cloud provider and use a key file for protection.

Bitwarden is the obvious answer that fits all your criteria.

Rakn,

Why are these the only real choices? What makes the others not real?

ebits21,
@ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

Only ones I trust that are open sourced and have some kind of audit.

Rakn,

Don’t closed ones like 1Password also have audits? But I guess it’s a personal philosophy.

ebits21,
@ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

Sure. But I wouldn’t trust closed source software for passwords. Personal decision.

ChrislyBear,

What are thr benefits of KeePassXC over the regular “original” application?

ebits21, (edited )
@ebits21@lemmy.ca avatar

I use Linux and flatpaks so XC is the obvious choice for me - much nicer to use across platforms that aren’t a windows and only one available as a flatpak. Nicer interface. Supports TOTP codes (all I use it for, Bitwarden for passwords). More active development.

I use KeePassium on iOS with the same vault.

wilberfan,
@wilberfan@lemmy.world avatar

Gratifying to see all the love for Bitwarden!

Moondance,

Bitwarden

Royalish,

This is the way.

NPC,

There are other good options out there, think keypass, 1password and maybe dashlane. But my favourite would definitely be bitwarden

odbod,

This.

Bitwarden.

All day; everyday.

acetone,
@acetone@szmer.info avatar

Bitwarden.

Kyrgizion,

My brain. Comes up with the whackiest excuses for why this-and-that password would be a great choice and how easy it would be to remember, only to later explain to me rationally why it was the wrong choice and how I should’ve known I’d forget it. Then again, that’s just extra security. If it’s only stored in my internal memory and even I can’t remember it, no one else is getting in for sure.

kingmook,

+1 for bitwarden. If you want full control you can even host your own server. Easyish to setup at Bitwarden Docker Setup

slimsalm,

I use keepassxc, works well for me.

SecretPancake,

Been using 1Password since 2010. I tried Bitwarden a few years ago just because of the price. In theory it ticks all boxes but it was a pain to use. I does not flow like 1P, some things did not work the way I expected and it looks like shit. Don’t ask for details because I forgot. So I switched back. The new design of 1Password made it a little worse but it’s still great and the integration into iOS and macOS is amazing.

moopet,
@moopet@kbin.social avatar

1Password has some nice features (like it reads QR codes off the page and automatically handles 2FA for you, which is clever, but not necessarily the "2" in "2FA" you were hoping for) but it also has a lot of weird UI decisions that make it confusing to use, especially in a shared company environment.

It is a lot better than it was before though, now it's cross-platform (it used to be exclusively AppleSuperiorityComplexWare), but it's still not open source.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world avatar

I use Samsung notes. Save all my passwords in there, they’re all different and strings of words with characters in them etc.

Then i lock the note with one secure password.

kvvy,

I'd switch to something like BitWarden.

001100010010, (edited )
@001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Um… I dont think that’s a password manager…

arin,

Samsung has Samsung Pass for an actual password manager

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