Password managers are a great way to have strong, unique passwords for each website you access – but vital as it is these days, there’s no denying that it’s a chore to change them. Dashlane, a Mac and Windows password manager app, aims to take away the pain by doing it for you automatically across 50 top US websites like Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook, PayPal, WordPress and Twitter.
Importantly, the app can even cope with sites that employ two-factor authentication to login or change a password, prompting you for the code when required …
In a WSJ review, Geoffrey Fowler found that Dashlane allowed him to change 34 passwords in less than five minutes.
As with other password managers, the idea is that you never need to remember, or even know, your site passwords – only the master password that allows you to login automatically. By using the app across all your devices, that single password is the only one you’ll ever need.
The automated change feature could make Dashlane formidable competition for more established password managers like 1Password and LastPass, especially if the company makes good on its promise to increase the number of supported sites to first hundreds and then thousands.
There’s of course no such thing as a free lunch – the automatic password change service requires a premium subscription to Dashlane, costing $39.99 a year. It’s currently in invitation-only beta, but you can apply here.
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Subscription based. No thanks. They have the balls to say that competitors charge for different platforms, but they don’t happen to mention on the same page they charge $40 each year for web-view based apps. NFT.
Now this is what I call a handy feature. Coupled with the fact that I freakin loathe my current 1Password app I’ll give this app a try. 1Password is such a mess I find it to be an excruciating experience.
I go to a site, register so I can order or post something, 1Password pops up, giving me a generated password. Yes, handy. Then Safari saves the password for me in Keychain. Next time I go that site 1Password doesn’t recognise the site because the URL is different, but Safari knows how to keep tabs on that and offers me to Autofill.
1Password however is useless, and prompts me to have it generate yet another password for me. Having to edit the URL on the previously saved entry in 1Password negates the app altogether. No, either a working app, or Keychain for me.
Wow – 1P a mess? You would be firmly in the minority there. Maybe you just don’t know how to use it. That’s my guess. 1P is a great app – the first one I install on any device of mine.
What a jackass. Someone disagrees with you and you assume they don’t know what they’re doing. Clasy.