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The best password managers

This is the one category where marketing claims are cheap and independent audits are not. A password manager is worth exactly as much as its worst day, so the list is built on published audits, disclosed breaches and how each company behaved afterwards.

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01

Bitwarden

An open-source password manager with a usable free tier that can also be self-hosted on your own server.

Best for most households

Strengths

  • Third-party audits every year, most recently in 2025, linked from its own compliance page
  • Client and server are open source, so the encryption can be read rather than taken on trust
  • Exports the whole vault to plain JSON or CSV whenever you ask
  • Apps on every desktop and mobile platform, and it can be self-hosted

Limits

  • The interface is plainer than what the paid rivals ship
Verified · Sep 2026

Checked 14 September 2026: annual third-party audits listed and linked on Bitwarden's compliance page, the most recent from 2025. Source

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02

Proton Pass

A password manager from Proton with end-to-end encryption and built-in email alias generation.

Best if the rest of your accounts already live at Proton

Strengths

  • Audited by Cure53 in 2023 and by Recurity Labs in 2026
  • Open source clients across mobile, desktop and the browser extension
  • Email aliases are built in rather than being a second subscription

Limits

  • Younger than the others here, with a correspondingly shorter record
Verified · Sep 2026

Checked 14 September 2026: the Cure53 audit Proton published in July 2023, and its own report of a Recurity Labs audit in 2026. Source

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03

1Password

A password manager for individuals and businesses that flags weak or breached passwords and supports shared vaults.

Best apps of the four, if you can live without reading the reports

Strengths

  • Assessed by Cure53, Bishop Fox and Secfault, and holds SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001
  • The most finished apps in the category, on every platform
  • Family and team sharing that ordinary people can actually set up

Limits

  • Since 3 November 2025 the pentest reports are handed out through its Trust Center instead of being published, so you cannot simply read them
  • No free tier
Verified · Sep 2026

Checked 14 September 2026: 1Password lists its assessments publicly, but says the full reports have been distributed through its Trust Center since 3 November 2025. Source

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04

KeePassXC

An open-source password manager that stores an encrypted vault as a local file instead of on a company's servers.

Best if you would rather no company held your vault at all

Strengths

  • Certified by ANSSI in November 2025, report public, certificate valid to 2028
  • The vault is a file on your own disk, so there is no provider that could read it
  • Free, open source, and there is no account to close

Limits

  • No official mobile app, which is what most households need first
  • Syncing between devices is left entirely to you
Verified · Sep 2026

Checked 14 September 2026: ANSSI security visa ANSSI-CSPN-2025/16 for version 2.7.9, completed 17 November 2025. Source

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How we judged this Fixed before anything was ranked

What we look at

  • Independent security audit published in the last two years
  • End-to-end encryption with the provider unable to read the vault
  • Past incidents disclosed promptly and described honestly
  • Export of your whole vault in a readable format
  • Works on every platform your household actually uses

Helps if you have it: The full audit report, with the auditor named and the date visible.

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