Passwarden review: An interesting but flawed password manager for OS X
If you like to keep your information private, there’s never been a better time to save that info on your Mac and iOS devices: The Apple market is chock-full of products that help you securely store—and easily retrieve—everything from passwords to credit-card numbers, including one, dubbed iCloud Keychain, that Apple itself is busy baking right into OS X and iOS.
The latest option I’ve tried is Passwarden (Mac App Store link), an OS X app built by DAR Software that promises to help you manage every last bit of sensitive information, in a secure way, with as little complexity as possible.
Installation and usage
Passwarden is easy to install and set up. The app—a free download—requires you to create an online account before you can store your data. You then use this account to synchronize your data with other Macs running the app and with iOS devices running the free companion iOS app.
Once configured with your account, Passwarden allows you to enter any number of records, which are divided into seven different categories, including logins, banking records and credit cards, photos, contacts, and notes. According to the company, this data is stored using an alphabet soup of encryption algorithms that mean business, such as the government-grade AES–256, which protects your information using a key derived from your password.
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