The very best password managers, as recommended by our experts

With one of the slickest looking and most user-friendly interfaces (including 11 language options), the Dashlane app offers three different individual plans, including a free one if you plan just to use it on one device, a premium one, and a family one (which combines six premium accounts into one plan). It also comes with a free 30-day Premium trial and you can get up to a 20% discount if you pay for your yearly subscription upfront. 

The Dashlane Premium plan makes managing passwords on multiple devices a piece of cake because it gives you the option to import passwords from any site, syncs across unlimited devices, and stores unlimited passwords. If you’re switching from another password manager, it also allows you to import passwords from other password managers. After importing passwords from all of your sites, you can separate them into categories (like banks and shopping, social media, etc.), and Dashlane will let you know if it thinks any of your passwords are too weak. It will also allow help you generate secure passwords so you don’t need to keep making up new ones on your own, and it will allow you to share passwords as many times as you need to with other people. 

Dashlane Premium also comes with some helpful additional features, including form and payment autofill, dark web monitoring and alerts, VPN for WiFi protection, two-factor authentication, U2F authentication, secure notes, and 1 GB of encrypted file storage.

1Password offers two plans: an individual one and a 1Password Families one. Both allow for unlimited password, item, and document storage, two-factor authentication, and the sharing of sensitive information. The app also stores a 365 day history of items so if you accidentally delete a password, you can find it again. 1Password also supports a travel mode that you can turn on when you’re crossing borders. 

The family version comes with all those features, but comes with five logins. You can also invite additional family members for only $1 extra a month. On the family plan, you can safely share passwords, credit cards, notes, and more, while also managing what individual family members can see and do (meaning you can control who gets access to what passwords, which is ideal for parents). Plus, you can help any family member in your plan easily recover their accounts if they accidentally get locked out. 

1Password also comes with 24/7 customer support and a 14-day free trial so you can make sure you like it before paying for your membership.

The company behind our favorite premium VPN also makes a fantastic password manager. It installs on your smartphone and web browser, importing all your passwords and organizing them for easy access.

NordPass offers biometric logins, either Face ID or fingerprint verification, to save you a step of remembering the password to the password manager. Like many of the managers on this list, it does password health check-ups so you can change the weakest links that leave you vulnerable to data breaches. Plus its signature xChaCha20 encryption algorithm scrambles your passwords in the case of a breach so all hackers see is nonsense.

While it is pricey, it's an especially great password manager if you're already using NordVPN elsewhere.

Keeper is not only a place to store an unlimited number of passwords, but also a place to store your private documents, photos, and other files—it's like the hardcore version of putting a passcode on your phone so no one can see all of the weird pictures you've saved. Keeper also has a broad selection of native apps for macOS, iOS, Windows, and Android — so there's never a device left out. 

Like most of the other password managers on this list, it will also generate and autofill strong passwords for you, and it allows for use and access on unlimited devices. It will also store identity and payment information and you can log in to the app with your fingerprint and Face ID. There are also two plans: an individual one for one user or a family plan for up to five users. The family plan also includes secure record sharing and 10GB of secure file storage.

This ultra user-friendly app has a few different plans that don't top $4/month. The free version is more bare-bones and only allows unlimited password storage on one mobile or one desktop device. Still, that's not a major deal if you already rely on, say, Apple's built-in password manager on your Mac.

Bumping to a Premium or Families account ups your number of devices (and device type), adds more storage, and families can have up to six users on one account. Regardless of your membership, the interface also allows you to organize your passwords and credit cards into different folders so you can easily find what you want. 

If you're looking for a straightforward, nothing fancy password manager that still, you know, works, Zoho is an awesome choice. Have as many passwords as you want, access them from any device with the Zoho extension, enable two factor authentication, and share with your team freely—all for only a couple cents each month. While Zoho's vault does allow storing of private data like bank accounts or health care info, it won't auto fill these for you in web pages.

Sites with two-page logins like Gmail or Yahoo also give Zoho a little trouble, so keep that in mind if you use those email services. It allows you offline access, it allows you to import and export passwords, and it allows you to transfer or acquire ownership of passwords. If you get the paid version, you can also integrate it with G Suite and Office 365.

Sticky Password has been a password manager company for 20 years, making it one of the best-known options on the market today. It is a great option for anyone looking to secure their online life without spending too much on a monthly membership fee. In fact, it comes with two pricing tiers: free and premium.

The password manager stores an encrypted copy of your data in the cloud, and the only way you can get to it is with your online password and master password. It will automatically fill out forms and logs for you, generate strong passwords when you need them, keep your credit card info safe and ready for checkout, and securely share passwords and logins with friends if you need to. And, for extra security, you can also opt for secure no-cloud sync. 

Sticky Password also protects your private notes and other text data, works on up all your devices and up to 17 browsers, and will even work on USB and memory cards. Note that for each subscription, Sticky Password donates a portion of the money to a manatee protection fund. If you didn't think it was a great choice before, we bet you do now.

​​Possibly the nicest interface to look at (other than Dashlane), Password Boss does basically everything you'd want a good password manager to do: it stores every password for your websites, apps, WiFi, and anything else in one place, it automatically logs you in, and it offers you great protection from security breaches thanks to end-to-end security. 

Password Boss Premium can sync across all devices, storing your data in the cloud using government-level encryption (according to the website). What’s more, when you go on a secure site that you haven't been on yet, Password Boss will offer to save the login info, and then will automatically log you in every time you go on that site later on. It also has an app so you can log on to devices from your phone too.