Best Free Passwords Manager
October 28, 2009 – 5:32 pmNowadays, if you can automate a daily routine, you’re making yourself that much more effective. And if you can find a software that will seamlessly integrate into your routine, you will become an efficient, and productive worker overall.
As an SEO Expert, one of my biggest daily challenges is managing all of my passwords. Regardless of your professional, you will more than likely experienced the same issue too. If you think that trying to remember 10 passwords is a lot of work, then you need an automated solution.
Previously, I was using an Excel spreadsheet to maintain ALL of my passwords. I had to manually update it every single day. Needless to say, it was a daunting and time consuming task.
I was looking for a better solution, but I never found the time to actually look for a solution.
Sometime, I would forget where I’d saved the spreadsheet, and would spend time looking for it. What a waste of time, right?
One day, it became clear to me that I did not enjoy copying and pasting my passwords from the spreadsheet to a website just to login. Although, I did enjoyed the absolute control of seeing all of my usernames and passwords in one place, I knew I had to give up control.
This constant managing of this spreadsheet was driving me crazy because copying and pasting is not a perfect solution. It is even more frustrating when you’d copied a username and missed one or two characters in the process.
I’ve had enough of this ineffective, and frustrating method of maintaining my passwords. Clearly, I needed a solution fast and I knew just the place to look.
I googled “passwords management”, and I was presented with a plethora of software choices.
After looking at a few possible choices, I’d settled on KeePass, KeyWallet, and Roboform. With the exception of RoboForm 10 passwords limit, all three of these password manager are free to download, and use.
Even though Roboform has a 10 passwords limit, you can easily upgrade to the paid version for only $29.95. With the paid version, you could store more passwords, get free updates, and technical support via a toll free number. In fact, if you use this RoboForm coupon “NEVR1″, you can save $6 off their regular price right now. Click here if you want to buy now and download RoboForm.
KeePass is a free and opened source passwords management tool. This freeware offers many features that are also available in many of the other shareware passwords management. If you don’t want to spend any money on a passwords management software, I highly recommend that you check out KeePass.
KeyWallet is particularly interesting because it is browser independent, and it works on computers with the Windows 98 operating system. I’m not sure if KeePass or RoboForm is backward compatible with older OS.
The only drawback with KeePass and KeyWallet is that technical support is only available via a support forum that is managed by their respective contributors.
Personally, I preferred to buy from a company that has email, chat, support forum, and telephone contact. It’s because of these reasons that I decided to purchase the passwords management tool Roboform.
I’ve been using Roboform for over 4 years now, and I strongly believed that they have a superior product. Plus, they have really good customer service, and technical support staff. The last time I’d called them, a technical support staff answered my call within 20 seconds. For a company with millions of paid users, they have one of the friendliest and knowledgeable customer service staff that that I’ve experienced.
When I’d purchased Roboform, I quickly discovered that it also fills-in name, mailing address, telephone number, and other customizable information too. More importantly, you could also use Roboform to store your credit card, banking information, and other personal information.
If you want to organize your usernames, and passwords now, I recommend that you download of the two passwords management tools that I’d suggested above. I’m also certain you’ll attained a sense of freedom after you’ve downloaded and installed one those useful tools.
Please let me know what you think. I would love to hear from you if you think that you’ve noticed an increased in productivity from using any of any tools listed above.
Disclaimer: The author of this blog is currently using RoboForm, and is providing this unbiased review of RoboForm and other password manager tools for informational purpose only. The author of this website is an affiliate of Roboform, and we will be compensated by Roboform if you buy from any of the text links or banner showing on this website. You may or may no experienced an increased in productivity as a result of your purchased of RoboForm. The use of any software online or offline is greatly dependent on the user’s ability to learn how to use the software. We are not associated with KeePass or KeyWallet nor are we being compensated for reviewing their software here in this blog posting. You are downloading and using these softwares at your own risk.
