Verdict
The only one here that stores your vault in an open format other software can also read, which means a bad year for the developer is not a bad year for your passwords.
Best for
Someone who wants a vault they could still open in ten years, with or without this app.
Dealbreaker
Syncing is the running complaint — fifteen of the last two hundred reviews say it fails, mostly over Dropbox — and reviewers say opening a local copy now pushes you toward paid cloud storage.
The facts.
Pulled from the App Store, not written by hand.
Price
$2.99 once
In-app purchases
Unknown
Ads
Unknown
Platforms
iPhone, iPad
Rating
4.7★ (5,108)
Version
12.5.2
Last updated
Sep 5, 2026
Released
Nov 28, 2014
Attributes
Native appOne-time purchaseNo subscription
Category
Utilities, Productivity
What reviews consistently say.
Themes grouped from 200 App Store reviews. Source feed ›
Praised for
Sync and multi-device28 reviews
Ease of use and design12 reviews
Subscription pricing and paywalls3 reviews
Import and export3 reviews
Battery and performance3 reviews
Customer support2 reviews
Complained about
Sync and multi-device15 reviews
Subscription pricing and paywalls4 reviews
Confusing interface2 reviews
Misses some ads2 reviews
Where this comes from
28 of 200 recent reviews raised: Sync and multi-device (positive)App Store reviews ›
15 of 200 recent reviews raised: Sync and multi-device (negative)App Store reviews ›
12 of 200 recent reviews raised: Ease of use and design (positive)App Store reviews ›
4 of 200 recent reviews raised: Subscription pricing and paywalls (negative)App Store reviews ›
3 of 200 recent reviews raised: Subscription pricing and paywalls (positive)App Store reviews ›
2 of 200 recent reviews raised: Customer support (positive)App Store reviews ›
Stores its vault in the Password Safe format rather than a private oneApp Store listing ›
Where we recommend it
Password managers you buy once ›Password vaults with no yearly fee.
Alternatives with the same rule.
Every app here is a single purchase. None of them can start charging you monthly for what you already bought. Also with a catch.
$9.99 once · 4.9★ (1,923) · Updated Jun 15, 2026
Verdict. The healthiest app in this category by the numbers — the highest rating here, and not one review in the recent record reporting it broken or losing anything.
Best for. Someone who keeps one vault across an iPhone and an Android phone and needs it to open on both.
Dealbreaker. Syncing runs through your own Dropbox or Google Drive rather than iCloud, so the vault sits in a third place you also have to keep secure — and the recent review record is thin enough that there is less evidence here than for the others.
$4.99 once · 4.8★ (4,357) · Updated Sep 21, 2024
Verdict. The nicest of these to actually live in, with decoy vaults and self-destruct options that the others do not bother with.
Best for. Someone who will use it daily and cares that it does not feel like a database.
Dealbreaker. It only exports to its own format, so reviewers who wanted to leave found they could not take their passwords with them. A few also report losing data outright.
$5.99 once · 4.6★ (6,463) · Updated May 9, 2025
Verdict. Cheap, plain and widely owned, with autofill that works and very little else to it.
Best for. Someone storing a short list of logins who does not want to think about it.
Dealbreaker. Three of the last two hundred reviews describe losing their entire vault, and there is no export anyone else can read, so there is no way to keep a copy elsewhere.