The 5 best applications to manage your passwords on Android
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The increase in social networks and applications that ask us for passwords to gain access has created a new inconvenience for us: remembering a large number of passwords. It seems somewhat insecure to have the same password for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks and being somewhat cumbersome to remember as many as we have social networks, password managers have been presented as a great solution for that with a single key, we can access all our passwords without having to constantly remember.We present five of the best applications to manage our access codes.
Keepass2Android
Keepass2Android is one of the most basic password management apps. It has the most basic features and can backup passwords. However, it doesn't have many of the more complex options of some of its competitors. The main attraction of the application is that it is completely free and open source It is based on the code for Keepassdroid (which is another excellent free open source password manager ) and the two are compatible with each other. There is also a completely offline version in case we need it. It is only available for Android.
LastPass
LastPass is one of the most popular and complete password managers for Android. It has a ton of features, including autofill passwords in apps, websites, and even forms. It also allows us to store photos and audio notes safely. It has other not very common features, such as fingerprint scanner support, a password generator, a password auditor that lets us know if our password is weak and even the possibility of allowing access in an emergency to a friend or family member. We can use the main app for free, but we will need a subscription if we want all the features.
Enpass Password Manager
Enpass is a pretty comprehensive password manager, covering the basics and there are even desktop versions available for PC, Mac, and Linux. It has no subscription fees, which sets it apart from some of the more powerful key managers. In addition, the application can perform backup copies and restore our information, includes 256-bit AES encryption, synchronization between platforms and even we can import from other password managers to facilitate migration We can also make it autofill our passwords in Google Chrome if we use that browser. It is free to download and use on Android. And with a single payment of 10 euros to unlock everything.
Password Safe and Manager
Password Safe and Manager for Android is a good middle ground option when it comes to password managers. It has absolutely zero Internet connections, as well as 256-bit encryption that should help us feel relatively secure. It also has Material Design which looks and performs quite nice. We can put our passwords, categorize them for easy navigation and even generate new passwords on the fly In addition, it comes with auto backup, which makes backup copies periodically. There are many more features if we decide to buy the pro version for 5 euros. It's not the best password manager, but it's pretty good.
Google Smart Lock
Smart Lock by Google is a surprisingly good password manager. It works natively on Android and Google Chrome.Basically, we log into something and Google asks if we want it to remember the password. The next time we open that app or site, Google will fill in the password field for us. Supports usernames, passwords, credit card information and a few other things. Everything is completely free.
