Macworld:
Unless you’ve been living under the proverbial rock, there’s a good chance that you have, by now, become aware of how tragically easy it can be for your online credentials to be stolen. From picking weak combinations of characters that can be easily guessed—it’s somewhat sad that, in 2016, “password” is still the most common passphrase—to reusing the same password across multiple websites, it doesn’t take much to make a mistake that could very well turn out to be fatal.
While there is no bulletproof solution to this problem, the easiest way to alleviate it is to engage the services of a password manager—an app designed to provide an encrypted digital vault in which all your different logins are stored. This way, you can use completely different (and highly secure) credentials for each website while only having to remember the one “master password” that unlocks your vault.
AgileBits’ 1Password is perhaps one of the most venerable members of this family of programs, and one that, with its newest version 6.0 release, aims to retain its position as the leader of the pack.
I don’t need or use the new enterprise features but I can’t recommend 1Password enough. It (and apps like it) are invaluable in keeping my passwords long, complicated and secure.
I recommend Splash ID. Works on OS X and iOS with iCloud sync. Touch ID unlock on iOS.
There’s huge lock-in with any password app. It’s a massive chore to switch. That’s why I will never use 1Password. Too hard to migrate all those passwords over from my existing solution.
The enterprise features make sharing my passwords with my wife easy. I certainly hope nothing happens to either of us but we’d be able to sort out each other’s digital lives easily if that happened.
Sorry for the somewhat morbid comment, but, you never know.