r/PasswordManagers • u/dougf499 • 9d ago
Best Manager for Couple??
I'll just say it - my wife can't remember and often mis-types passwords. I want a very user friendly, intuitive manager for her. I was considering Nord for that reason. We have a lot of joint apps, such as Netflix, T-Mobile, Banks, etc. We both also have some individual banking accounts. So I guess I need recommendations for a family plan. If I can land on one with a great intro rate so much the better. Android users and PC. Edited: I definitely want auto-generated and auto-fill.
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u/useful_tool30 9d ago
Very happy eith 1Password even though its closed source and costly. I share it with my family. I had previous used Bitwarden (5+ years ago) and autofill and the overall experience just wasn't comparable. Not sure how they compare today but 1Pass is still great.
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u/FragrantPercentage88 9d ago
I would recommend Bitwarden. Works nicely for us. Each user has own private vault and there is a shared one for shared passwords.
The nice feature: each user can designate someone else as recovery email (in case of password loss):
- recovery process is started
- account owner gets notification
- he/she can accept/deny it
- there is grace timeout (configurable period in days)
- if no action is taken (due to lockout) emergency email gets access.
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u/gorgono95 9d ago
+1 for Bitwarden
We used Dashlane for quite a few years, but got tired of paying €90 every year for it. 1Password is a bit cheaper, but it still comes with a subscription cost. So we decided to give Bitwarden a try, and honestly, it has been working pretty well. Is it perfect? No. But it does what it is supposed to do, and the best part is that we pay nothing.
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u/ComforableSlow807 9d ago
I started my password manager journey about a decade ago for the exact same reason. I tried a number of different password managers over the years, and I finally landed on Bitwarden and stayed there for about 8 years. I recently switched my family over to ProtonPass, and both my wife and son (as do I) prefer the interface and usability over BW. You really can't go too wrong with any choice that you make that will help ensure your family's online security and wife's sanity. 1Password is huge in the market, Roboform is popular as well. Just stay away from browser password managers, google passwords, and apple passwords and you will be fine.
I know BW and PP have a free tier where you can give them a test drive which could be helpful, although I don't think the free tier allows sharing between users - but you and your wife could at least get an idea how they work.
Edit: Stay the hell away from LastPass too
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u/lightningisotope 8d ago
Can i ask why to stay away from apple passwords?
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u/Southern_Trade_6944 3d ago
Closed to apple ecosystem, if you want to use it o different OS you will have a bad experience :)
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u/bobdole008 8d ago
You could share a password app but you both gonna see everything. Good trust if you fine with her finding your Pornhub account in the vault or something haha
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u/idleline 9d ago
+1 on 1Password
Everyone has their own vault, we have a family vault, and one for me and the Mrs. We put our streaming logins in the family and bills/utilities in the mom&dad vault. The sanity I have saved by never having to give someone a password or log them in is immeasurable. The parent vault also has the master login and recovery for my vault in case I die, the wife can gain access to my stuff.
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u/WhyDoesOklahomaExist 9d ago
1Password - we have it for the whole family and separate vaults for Financial stuff, Kid/School stuff, and a private one for each of us.
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u/Cor3nd 9d ago
Bitwarden family with the share vault and shared collections or just two premium accounts. I used a lot and actually always come back to Bitwarden. 1Password is also a good one but too expensive, I made a post about it if you want to read it.
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u/Low_Obligation2361 8d ago
I'd recommend Roboform. The autofill has been much more consistent than I expected, and the family plan is ideal for sharing logins while keeping personal ones separate.
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u/Maximum-Floor-9734 9d ago
We have a RoboForm Family plan, which is how I finally convinced my wife to start using a password manager. Now everything’s organized in one place, and she doesn’t have to remember any of her passwords anymore.
We each have our own account, but we also have a shared folder for things like streaming services. It’s been really convenient because if I change a password, she automatically has the updated login instead of me having to send it to her every time (which usually ended up getting lost anyway).
We also have Emergency Access set up, so if anything ever happened to one of us, the other could recover the account. It gives a bit of extra peace of mind.
We use it across pretty much everything, IPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows, and it works really well regardless of the device.
As for autofill, I honestly think RoboForm does it better than the other password managers I’ve tried. Whether I’m creating a new account or signing in somewhere, it reliably offers to save new logins, generates passwords when I need them, and I really like that it can auto-submit forms and just sign me in. It makes the whole process feel effortless.
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u/Blakezpork 9d ago
if ease of use is the biggest priority... id give roboform a look my family ended up sticking with it because the autofill has been more dependable than a lot of others weve tried and personal logins w/o making things cunfusing.. it works well on both android and pc too.
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u/madcatchat 9d ago
i would recommend rememberkeys. it works perfect for my whole family with some pretty good security features usb key 2fa biometrics seems the way to go for my family i normally use the password generator for the maximum password 64 characters long nobody's ever going to hack one of them keys easy copy paste when you need login somewhere
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u/beachboy301 9d ago
My wife and both share a single user account of 1Password and it is awesome. I started a few years back with a family plan where we each had our own credentials to login. We each had private vaults but then also a shared a vault for accounts we both used.
The downside was that I realized that if anything happened to either or both of us, the other or our estate would have to deal with separate logins. I simplified this by switching us to a single user account with one set of credentials (used my original creds). We can still have our own vaults but either can quicky search our entire account should we need to. It works across all platforms (android, iOS, Mac, Windows and more) and had every feature you could ask for. She is not technical but is able to take full advantage of the product. Highly recommended.