Good cross-platform password managers?

[AltecXP]

I use an iOS tablet. Android phone, MacOS laptop and Windows desktop. I used MS Edge on all of them.

I have LastPass right now and I'm not TO worried about my stuff getting hacked as I have a 23char random generated acct password and all my other passwords in it are 20+ and also random generated, but I'd like to find other solutions.

What are some options that work as well while integrating to all the major OS's? Free and Paid are fine. 

 

Thanks.

[SnoopZ]

I use Bitwarden on Android and Windows, it's free and it replaced Lastpass for me, you can import your Lastpass passwords into this too.

https://bitwarden.com/

[tsupersonic]

BitWarden works great cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, Linux)

[Sikh]

1Password and Bitwarden are my recommendations for crossplatform.. I've been a 1Password user since 2012 and its super polished and the browser extensions work really well. I use 1Password on Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome and Firefox. It works very well and havent had any issues with it over the last 10 years I've used it.

I've used Bitwarden off and on and have recommended it to people because its free and between their desktop app and extensions, its basic and gets the job done. One example is adding a new item is just a blank item. I prefer passwords managers that sperate logins from other items.

I am also an old roboform user and 1Password to me was a much more advance and much better at staying up to date than roboform was. 1Password has definitely done a great job for me over the last 10 years and I dont plan on switching away from it unless something better comes along and at this rate I think thats almost impossible.

[farmeunit]

+1 for Bitwarden for me.  Move from Lastpass when they kept increasing prices after limiting multiple devices to paid plans.

 

@SikhWhat do you mean it's just a blank item?  There are 4 types.  You click the type, then add the item.....  Or select the type if you click the plus in the main screen.  Then you have folders, as well.

[Gerowen]

I use KeePass and sync the database to my personal Nextcloud server.  I use KeePass2Android on my phone, and KeePassXC on my PCs.  You can sync the database file anywhere you like since it's encrypted, so you can stick it on your OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, etc.

[Argi]

1Password is great and what I use. I've heard fantastic things about Bitwarden, too.

[Michael Scrip]

I just signed up with Bitwarden.  I'm liking it so far.  

It was easy to export my LastPass vault and import it into Bitwarden.  It even kept all my organizational folders and all my secure notes.

It only took about 10 minutes to set it up on my desktop, laptop, and phone, along with setting up two-factor for my account.

Even though I can get by with just the free version... I don't have a problem paying $10/year to fund the cause.

Give it a try.  It's free!

👍

[theefool]

I tried bitwarden for a bit, after last pass, but didn't care for it.  Switched to 1password.  So far, I'm liking it.

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

I use 1Password on Windows, Linux, Android and historically OSX. It's always just worked over the last decade regardless of the platform.

Currently I use it with Edge at home and can unlock my vault with Windows Hello on Windows and my fingerprint on Android.

At work we use 1Password for teams, which is great for securely sharing sensitive info and so on, even with people outside the organisation / who don't have 1Password (you can create a view once link to something in your vault which comes in handy).

[Premgenius]

I'll vote for 1Password too have been using it for several years and they are multi-platform it can also store your 2FA but I use Authy for the 2FA and currently slowly migrating to a YubiKey

[ScorpioRGc1]

I've used 1Password for a couple of years now on Windows and Android and honestly couldn't imagine living without it now.  Superb software & service.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

I'm starting to use KeePass. One of the reasons for doing so is that it is open source, free and cross-platform, so as well as Windows there are forks for MacOS and iOS, as well as Android and Linux.

BUT the information is stored in a local database. My workaround is to store a copy of the database on a cloud, and each time I make a modification I upload the databse and then download it to the necessary devices. This means that I have a local copy of the database on my device (if for example the network is down) but it's a bit more time-consuming compared to using something like LastPass. At the same time though, I don't need to worry about a company like LastPass notifying me that they had a breach on their servers.

[+Warwagon MVC]

I just tried 1password and was surprised that they had no direct import support for Bitwarden, only a generic CSV and I had to custom map the fields. Deleted my 1password account and kept using Bitwarden.

Talked to a friend who is an avid 1password user / supporter and they defended 1password saying they shouldn't have to cater to Bitwarden. My response was.... uh...people are coming FROM Bitwarden you want to make the transition as frictionless as possible. This is NOT frictionless THIS is / was a pain the ass.

His comeback response was "If I was 1password, and if people couldn't figure out how to map those fields, I wouldn't want them as a customer" ... alrighty then.

Then I said, no it's stupid, they need to support Bitworden, the password manager everyone seems to be using now.

There was one thing that was annoying me about Bitwarden, but now I realize it's actually a better way of doing things.

For me Bitwarden wasn't reliability prompting me to save a changed password or a newly created account on a website. The comment was, well duh, just create the passcard inside Bitwarden first.

My initial response to reading that was "that is the stupidest thing I'd ever heard". then after actually doing it for a few sites while changing my passwords, it's actually a fantastic idea and much more reliable and gives you a bunch better piece of mind.

Having said all that, I still think it's stupid that "Autofill" is still unchecked by default and is still considered an experimental feature.

[i_was_here]

On 31/12/2022 at 04:53, Nick H. said:

I'm starting to use KeePass. One of the reasons for doing so is that it is open source, free and cross-platform, so as well as Windows there are forks for MacOS and iOS, as well as Android and Linux.

BUT the information is stored in a local database. My workaround is to store a copy of the database on a cloud, and each time I make a modification I upload the databse and then download it to the necessary devices. This means that I have a local copy of the database on my device (if for example the network is down) but it's a bit more time-consuming compared to using something like LastPass. At the same time though, I don't need to worry about a company like LastPass notifying me that they had a breach on their servers.

Look into using Syncthing to share the database between devices. Unfortunately it won't help with iOS. For that, I just sync my database to the cloud and then have my iOS password manager access it that way.

[+BudMan MVC]

been using bitwarden for years - moved away from lastpass a few years back when you had to pick 1 device to use it on, etc..

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 01/01/2023 at 00:12, BudMan said:

been using bitwarden for years - moved away from lastpass a few years back when you had to pick 1 device to use it on, etc..

^ Same..  Lastpass suked.. Bitwarden is my new friend.

Edit: If you want to see my post about file managers, take a look

 

Odd that was a year ago.. how times fly..

Edited January 1, 2023 by Mindovermaster

[fastcat]

On 31/12/2022 at 13:53, Nick H. said:

I'm starting to use KeePass. One of the reasons for doing so is that it is open source, free and cross-platform, so as well as Windows there are forks for MacOS and iOS, as well as Android and Linux.

 

KeePass only runs in Linux and MacOS through the use of Mono but it is not cross platform like KeePassXC designed specifically to be cross platform and runs natively in Linux and MacOS without the use of any extra libraries.

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 01/01/2023 at 00:23, Mindovermaster said:

^ Same..  Lastpass suked.. Bitwarden is my new friend.

Edit: If you want to see my post about file managers, take a look

 

Odd that was a year ago.. how times fly..

Actually, for me lastpass didn't suck at all other than the breaches. I loved using lastpass.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

On 01/01/2023 at 11:20, Warwagon said:

Actually, for me lastpass didn't suck at all other than the breaches. I loved using lastpass.

Different strokes for different folks. You probably bought the premium version. Not everyone is made of money.

[+BudMan MVC]

I never had any issues with lastpass - used it for many many years.  And was happy paying the 11 or 12$ or whatever the cost was per year - but moved me away was hey its going to cost you way more money to use us.. I was happy with giving them a buck or so a month to use on my phone, on my pc, etc. all my devices that I wanted to use it on.  But when their price model changed - I looked elsewhere, bitwarden is free, can use it on any device I want.. Same feature set that I could tell that is for sure.  And if I really wanted to I could just keep my password db on my own device and sync to that - and the bitwarden servers are out of the picture.

There are many password managers to choose from - not everyone is going to like the same one, etc.  All I can say is I have not had any complaints moving from lastpass to bitwarden, it does everything I want it too - and it runs on all my different devices.

 

[Vambo]

Another Bitwarden user here. It works well for me across Windows and Android.

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 01/01/2023 at 13:23, BudMan said:

I never had any issues with lastpass - used it for many many years.  And was happy paying the 11 or 12$ or whatever the cost was per year - but moved me away was hey its going to cost you way more money to use us.. I was happy with giving them a buck or so a month to use on my phone, on my pc, etc. all my devices that I wanted to use it on.  But when their price model changed - I looked elsewhere, bitwarden is free, can use it on any device I want.. Same feature set that I could tell that is for sure.  And if I really wanted to I could just keep my password db on my own device and sync to that - and the bitwarden servers are out of the picture.

There are many password managers to choose from - not everyone is going to like the same one, etc.  All I can say is I have not had any complaints moving from lastpass to bitwarden, it does everything I want it too - and it runs on all my different devices.

 

I like bitwarden too, which is also why I love this mouse 

So nice to be able to unlock my vault on my desktop machine with my fingerprint without taking my hand off the mouse.

[+primortal Subscriber²]

Odd man out here.  But I’ve been using cross-platform https://www.enpass.io/ for ages but its either subscription or pay for a lifetime license but the encrypted database can be stored locally or in the cloud.

[ThaCrip]

In terms of Windows/Linux/Android level of 'cross-platform'... pwsafe.org (Designed by renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier)

it's entirely offline (I never been a fan of password managers that upload to places online) and I have been using that since about he 2005-2007 time frame. probably at least 15+ years now.

I just make sure to make multiple backup copies of the database file it uses to make sure I don't lose it short of natural disaster level of stuff and the like.

p.s. Rony Shapiro maintains the Windows/Linux versions and Jeff Harris maintains the Android version. I never used the Android version (since I generally don't use smart phones) but I have used the database file generated on Windows on Linux (as I moved to Linux on my main PC in Jan 2019) and it works fine.