Best Password Managers in 2026

Bitwarden is an open-source password manager developed by Bitwarden, Inc., which was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. The company says it serves more than 80,000 businesses and over 15 million users in more than 180 countries. Its client and server code is published openly, which allows independent inspection of how vaults are encrypted and synchronised.

The free plan is the most generous among the commercial products in this list: it has no limit on devices or stored passwords, supports passkeys, and includes Bitwarden Send for sharing text and files, plus sharing with one other user. The paid Premium tier adds an integrated authenticator for one-time codes, 5 GB of file attachments, emergency access and vault health reports. Bitwarden states that it holds ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports and undergoes annual third-party HIPAA audits.

The interface is more utilitarian than that of 1Password or Dashlane, and some features that rivals include by default, such as the authenticator, sit behind the paid tier. For households, the Families plan covers six premium accounts and unlimited shared collections.

1Password is a subscription password manager made by the company of the same name, which was founded in 2005 and publishes a business address in Toronto, Canada. Accounts are protected by two secrets: the account password, which the company says it never stores, and a 128-bit Secret Key generated on the user's device, so that a stolen copy of the server data would not be enough to attack a vault by guessing passwords alone. Authentication uses the Secure Remote Password protocol.

The company states that it is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and runs what it describes as the largest bug bounty in the industry. Apps are available for macOS, iOS, watchOS, Windows, Android and Linux, with browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox and Brave. Its Watchtower feature alerts users to weak or reused passwords and breached websites, and the company says its apps are independently audited by third parties.

1Password has no free plan; new users receive a 14-day trial and then pay for an Individual or Families subscription. By 2026 the company had widened its product line beyond passwords into device trust, SaaS management and credentials for AI agents, which are sold to businesses.

Proton Pass is the password manager of Proton AG, the Swiss company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN. Proton was started in 2014 by scientists who had met at CERN, after a crowdfunding campaign in which more than 10,000 people donated over $500,000. Proton AG's primary shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation in Geneva, and the company states that it has no venture capital investors.

Its distinguishing feature is built-in email aliasing: users can generate hide-my-email addresses when signing up for a service, so the real address is not shared. The free plan already includes unlimited logins, notes and cards, unlimited devices, two vaults and ten aliases. Pass Plus adds unlimited aliases, a built-in two-factor authenticator, dark web monitoring, file attachments, a command-line tool and emergency access.

Proton advertises introductory prices for the first year that renew at higher rates, which makes the second-year cost noticeably higher than the headline figure. Pass can also be bought as part of Proton Unlimited, which bundles Mail, Calendar, VPN and Drive.

Dashlane is a password manager that now presents itself mainly as a credential security platform for businesses, built around what it calls the Omnix platform, which combines password management with credential risk detection. Its consumer range is narrower than it once was: the personal page lists only two plans, Premium for individuals and Family for up to ten people, both billed annually and both available with a 14-day free trial.

Dashlane's materials emphasise protecting both passwords and passkeys and detecting credential risks such as phishing in the browser. The Family plan's ten-person limit is higher than the five or six users offered by most rivals.

The personal pricing page did not display numerical prices when it was checked for this list, so prices are not reproduced here. Unlike Bitwarden, Proton Pass or RoboForm, Dashlane does not list a free personal plan on its current consumer page.

Keeper is developed by Keeper Security, whose global headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois, with product development in El Dorado Hills, California, EMEA sales in Cork, Ireland, and an office in Tokyo. Its investors include Insight Partners and Summit Partners. The company sells both consumer plans and a wider business range that includes privileged access management under the KeeperPAM name.

The individual plan, called Keeper Unlimited, includes unlimited password storage, devices and secure sharing, identity and payment storage, biometric login, emergency access and round-the-clock support. The Family plan covers five users with unlimited shared folders and 10 GB of encrypted file storage, and family members cannot see one another's private vaults.

Two features are sold separately: BreachWatch dark web monitoring and additional secure file storage. This modular approach means that the headline subscription is not the full cost for users who want breach monitoring. Keeper offers a 30-day free trial and student and military or medical discounts.

RoboForm is made by Siber Systems, Inc., whose copyright notices on the RoboForm site date from 1999, making it one of the longest-running consumer password managers. It has a particular reputation for filling long web forms as well as login fields. Its free plan stores unlimited passwords but works on a single device, which suits someone using one computer but not someone who needs phone and desktop sync.

Premium removes the device limit and adds features such as emergency access and 24/7 email support. RoboForm supports advanced two-factor authentication on the account itself, with email, SMS, authenticator apps, passkeys and trusted devices as options. The Family plan covers up to five Premium accounts.

RoboForm's published renewal prices are among the lowest for a paid product, and new customers are offered a further first-year discount. A 30-day money-back guarantee applies to paid plans. Its interface reflects its age in places, and it is less widely used than Bitwarden or 1Password.

Enpass differs from most commercial password managers in where data lives: rather than keeping vaults on the vendor's servers, every plan stores the encrypted vault in a cloud account the user already controls, such as iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or Box. This removes the vendor as a central target, at the cost of making the user responsible for that storage account's security.

The free plan is limited to 25 items in a single vault, which is enough to try the product but not for most people's full set of accounts. Premium removes the limits and the Family plan extends Premium to up to six people with family management.

Enpass also sells a business edition that keeps data in a company's Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace storage. Its features cover the standard set of autofill, a password generator, passkeys and a security dashboard. It has a smaller user base than the market leaders and less published third-party security documentation.

Zoho Vault is the password manager of Zoho Corporation, the business software company, and is sold mainly to organisations, but it also offers a free personal plan. The free plan includes unlimited passwords, passkeys and storage on unlimited devices, a password and passphrase generator, a security dashboard, data backup, offline access, mobile apps, desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave and Zoho's own Ulaa browser.

Vault can be unlocked without typing a master password through Zoho OneAuth, Windows Hello, Touch ID, a passkey or a YubiKey, and the free plan includes a built-in two-factor authenticator and audit trails. It also integrates with other Zoho applications such as Mail, Desk and Projects.

The personal offering has no family plan: paid tiers (Standard, Professional and Enterprise) are designed for teams, add sharing and administration, and require a minimum of five users on the higher tiers. For an individual, Zoho Vault is therefore a free product with an unusually complete feature list, but without the household sharing structure of Bitwarden or 1Password.

KeePassXC is a community-developed, open-source password manager released under the GPLv3 licence and maintained by the KeePassXC Team. It stores usernames, passwords, URLs, attachments and notes in an offline encrypted database file that the user can keep anywhere, including on a private or public cloud drive. The project describes its approach as having no cloud, no advertising and no subscriptions.

KeePassXC runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and is aimed at users with high demands for control over their data. Version 2.7.9 received a First-level Security Certification (CSPN) from the French National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, which is unusual for a volunteer project. Version 2.8.0 was released in October 2026.

KeePassXC has no official mobile app; phone access relies on separate KeePass-compatible apps maintained by other developers, and syncing the database file between devices is left to the user. It also has no account recovery: losing the master password means losing the database.

Apple Passwords is the dedicated password manager app Apple introduced with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia and visionOS 2, giving a standalone interface to credentials previously managed in system settings. It stores account passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords and verification codes in one place and synchronises them across devices with iCloud Keychain.

The app can generate strong passwords, alert users to passwords that may not be secure, and share credentials with friends and family through shared groups. Because it is included with Apple's operating systems, there is no separate subscription.

Its main limitation is ecosystem reach. Apple's support documentation describes the app on Apple devices; people who also use Android phones or non-Apple computers have fewer options for reaching the same vault than with a cross-platform product such as Bitwarden or 1Password. Apple's documentation does not describe features found in dedicated products, such as file attachments or emergency access for a named contact.

Google Password Manager is built into the Chrome browser on all platforms and into every Android app, and saves credentials to the user's Google Account. For many people it is the password manager they already use without having chosen one, because Chrome and Android offer to save passwords by default.

Its Password Checkup feature identifies weak, reused and compromised passwords and helps the user change at-risk accounts, and Google says it alerts users when a saved password is found in a data breach. Users can add on-device encryption so that only they can read their saved passwords.

The product is free and well integrated, but it is tied to a Google Account and to Chrome or Android for autofill. It lacks the secure notes depth, organisation features, family vault structure and emergency access of dedicated products, and users of other browsers such as Safari or Firefox get less benefit from it.

LastPass was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston. It was acquired by LogMeIn, later renamed GoTo, in 2015 for $110 million, and formally separated from GoTo in 2024. The company says more than 100,000 organisations and millions of people use it.

In 2022 LastPass disclosed two linked security incidents. In August an attacker accessed parts of its development environment through a compromised developer account; in December the company reported that information from that incident had been used to access cloud storage and copy a backup of customer vault data. Website URLs in the stolen vaults were unencrypted, while usernames, passwords, notes and form data were encrypted with 256-bit AES and require each user's master password to decrypt. This history is the main reason it is ranked last here.

The free plan is limited to one device type. Premium, Families (six accounts) and a Plus tier bundling a VPN are billed annually, with 30-day trials for Premium and Families.