The Best Password Managers
Summary
1Password is compatible with all the operating systems and browsers that most people use: Standalone apps for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android all allow you to view and edit all the items in your vault. Perhaps surprisingly, considering the near-universally outdated advice on many websites, the company doesn’t recommend long strings of random lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. But in case of emergencies, you should also write it down on a physical piece of paper and put it somewhere safe—storing it digitally, especially using a cloud service like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, or OneDrive, risks exposing it to hackers, which would defeat the purpose. 1Password even gives you a handy Emergency Kit printout on which you can write your account information, your secret key, and your password, along with a QR code you can scan when you set up 1Password on a new phone, tablet, or computer. 1Password and Bitwarden both have web apps that you can log in to from anywhere—they don’t support the same convenient autofill capabilities as the browser extensions, but they do provide easy access to your passwords and any other information you have stored.
