Good Password Managers

A year or so ago I spent some time looking at password managers. Mostly Dashlane, Lastpass and Bitwarden. I tossed Bitwarden because of some of the things it didn't do well (which I cannot recall what any more), and got down to Lastpass and Dashlane. Wife preferred Dashlane by a tiny margin so that's what we went with.

Dashlane is getting rid of their desktop component and forcing everything into browsers, AND of greater concern, there's no way to export anything but the passwords except in THEIR encrypted format. So they're making it VERY difficult to move elsewhere. And, of course, their support is pretty dreadful. So, it's time to move to a different, HOPEFULLY better, tool.
We've got a bunch of passwords, a bunch of secure notes, financial stuff, software licenses, activation codes and sundry things, none of which are accessible for export, so I'm going to have to pull the data manually. I'll then drop it in a spreadsheet and set the headers for whatever we move to and import as needed.

This is going to be like the backup thing and the antivirus/anti-malware thing - Ease of use, convenience, robustness, reasonable cost, extremely effective... Which tools are the best fit for ordinary users? I have HEARD that Lastpass CAN ALSO handle usernames and passwords for LOCAL applications like Adobe Creative Cloud, but I've never actually had anybody confirm this absolutely. I've also hear THEIR support is as atrocious as Dashlane's...

So, who's the best fit?

Read that one and a few others before I even asked the question...

I have nothing against these type of comparisons, but they had a bunch of "best". I'm figuring people in here have actually USED some of these, and can help with the "WHAT makes X better than Y in fer-real, everyday, use"... And, of course, did they ever have problems and how was their product's support?

3 or 4 sheets of foolscap and a good pen!

I have a (strong) password protected Excel spreadsheet that contains all my PWs and when needed I open it and copy and paste PWs from it into wherever it is needed. It's worked for me for years and can be read by other applications like LibreOffice so no incompatibility issues. Maybe it is the only way to prevent incompatibility issues?

I know this "puts all my eggs in one basket" hence the very strong master PW but this is no different to PW managers. I also have a good security suite (Norton 360) installed and am very careful about clicking on links and all the other things to try and prevent my files being locked by scammers. I also keep two backups (in separate places) in case of file corruption or being locked-out.

Interesting. Sounds like a contingent that doesn't find much value in password managers. How do you handle the synchronizing between all your devices? Windows computer, laptops, Android tablets, smart phones, other people in the family using the same passwords for their devices?

Does a good password manager simplify this?

GracieAllen said:

Interesting. Sounds like a contingent that doesn't find much value in password managers. How do you handle the synchronizing between all your devices? Windows computer, laptops, Android tablets, smart phones, other people in the family using the same passwords for their devices?

Does a good password manager simplify this?

I do not see the use for password managers.

Of course, I'm speaking for myself...,

My devices are not shared with anyone, I'm signed into all my devices with the same account, which save all logins.

I have 4 or 5 life or death logins that are in-grafted into my brain, the rest I could care less about, but, I was serious about the paper and pen!

In my case there is no sync issue because I only use one computer as my main PC. I also have a laptop with the Excel spreadsheet on it but that is not the main device and it does not matter if the spreadsheet isn't as up-to-date as the one on my main PC. I onlu update the laptop spreadsheet about every 6 weeks.

Are you able to consider just using one device?