MAY 2021 • TECH ADVISOR 93includepersonaldatatomoreeasily
completeonlinepurchases,reservations,
and siteregistrations.AnditsSecure
Notes featureletsyousafelystorebank
accountandsocialsecuritynumbers,safe
combinations,andothersensitiveinfo.
LastPassalsorecentlyaddedan
EmergencyAccessfeaturethatletsyou
designatetrustedpeopletoaccessyour
vault whenyoucan’t.
Therobustfreeversiongivesyou
accesstomostofthesefeaturesplus
two-factorauthenticationacrossall
your desktopandmobiledevices.For
£31.20a year,anupgradetoLastPass
Premiumaddsfeaturesincluding
EmergencyAccess,desktopfingerprint
identification,YubiKeyand Sesame
multifactorauthenticationoptions,
the abilitytosharea singleitemwith
multiplepeople,andLastPassforyour
applications.A familiesplanincludes
these premiumfeaturesforuptosix
users for£40.80peryear.
Verdict
Giventherichfeaturesyouget,
LastPassshouldthe first password
manageryoutry.Anddon’tbe
surprisedif it’sthelast.Youcanget
plentyofmileageoutofthefree
version,butgiventheaddedsecurity
an ultra-affordableupgradebrings,you
shouldn’tbe shy to open your wallet.
RUNNER UP
Dashland
Price:$48(around£35)from
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Of all the password managers we’ve
reviewed, Dashlane has come closest to
stealing LastPass’s crown. Easy to use
and rich with features, it meets all our
requirements for a top-tier password
manager. But Dashlane goes beyond
just managing your login credentials,
providing insights for how to think
smarter about security.
Dashlane’s strength has long been
its elegant interface, which displays your
accounts as tiles or a list. Each tile has
its own fly-out menu from which you can
edit your account info, securely share
your login credentials, and view your
password history.
As with LastPass, Dashlane includes a
password changer, which you can open
from the top of the password list. Unlike
LastPass, which requires you to open a
specific website entry to auto-change
its password, Dashlane’s tool lists all of
your saved websites and you can change
as many passwords as you want at once
by selecting the checkbox next to each
entry. Dashlane’s password changer also
supports 500 sites, soundly trumping
LastPass’s 80.
One of Dashlane’s most attractive
features in previous versions was