Intuitive Password Advanced Edition - Review 2022

Password managers, like any other kind of software, can either evolve or stagnate. Intuitive Password Advanced Edition, now at version viii.6, has evolved quite a bit since my previous review. For example, information technology now includes a Security Dashboard, countersign inheritance, and binder-based system. On the other hand, it currently supports merely Chrome and Firefox, information technology nonetheless can't capture passwords at login, and you must wrangle CSV files to import from other products, so yous're in for some manual labor if you pick it.

Like LogMeOnce, the company offers multiple editions with e'er-increasing characteristic sets and ever-decreasing limitations. This includes a gratuitous edition that simply stores a express number of passwords. I don't count that as a full-fledged gratuitous password manager, but installing the free edition can exist a good style to go a feel for the product.

The Express, Advanced, and Pro editions become for $2, $5, and $15 per month, but those prices are in Australian dollars. At the time of this writing, the yearly price for the three, in USD, would be $18.82, $47.04, and $141.12, respectively. In this review, I embrace the Advanced edition, which, according to the company website, is the near pop.

The Advanced edition is also pricier than most competitors. It'due south hard to imagine paying $140 per year for a password managing director when Dashlane and LogMeOnce go for $39.99, while Keeper and Gluey Password Premium cost $10 less. Fifty-fifty though its price doubled terminal twelvemonth, LastPass is still just $24 per year.

Getting Started

Signing up for a free account just involves entering your electronic mail address, choosing a strong master password, and defining a security question and reply. Predefined security questions like your get-go pet or your mother's maiden name are problematic for security, then Intuitive Password doesn't use them. Rather, information technology expects you lot to come up with a question and an answer that nobody could figure out by Googling you.

You have to agree to the terms of service, and then you check a box indicating you understand that your encrypted data will go to the company'due south servers, and and then yous're done. Intuitive Password offers a tour of its features at startup, pointing out things like the updated Car-Login experience and the Security Dashboard.

When I last reviewed Intuitive Password, it relied on bookmarklets (tiny Java scripts wholly contained in bookmarks) to fill in your passwords. It has since joined the mainstream, using browser extensions to fill passwords. You merely install the extension in each browser you use. Browser support is a bit confusing, notwithstanding. At first login, a popup notification says that it supports Chrome, Firefox, Border, Safari, and Opera. Merely when you click to add the browser extension, it shows support for Chrome and Firefox only, with Safari and Opera marked "coming soon," and no sign of Edge. This is a serious limitation.

Even with the browser extensions, there'due south no automated password capture; you enter each password manually. Password Boss Premium, True Primal, Sticky Password, and almost every other competing product offering automated password capture.

As with Keeper, LastPass, Dashlane, and others, you can log in to your countersign collection from whatever browser, even without the extension installed. In its default Widescreen PC Mode, the main window is humongous. I had to overstate my browser window to over one,400 pixels wide for a proper view. If you lot'd adopt a more than compact view, you lot can switch to Tablet Mode or Smartphone Mode.

Speaking of tablets and smartphones, Intuitive Password offers apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Telephone. Yous simply launch the app and enter your credentials to get admission. All the same features are present, just folded together a bit more so they fit the smaller screen. There are a few exceptions. The Security Dashboard is but too big for viewing in smartphone mode, and then information technology doesn't announced, for example. And you can't automate login—to employ your saved passwords, you tap an icon that copies to the clipboard.

Primary Window

The left cavalcade of the display lists categories, the centre column shows the items in the selected category, and the correct cavalcade offers details for the selected item. You can also slide in either of ii additional columns for Preferences and Security Features—more almost those later.

Nether the Logins category you can store your full general website logins as well as a variety of other types, including database and server logins. The Accounts category includes such things every bit e-mail and IM accounts and wireless router details. Wallets, Licenses, and Identifications are about what you'd expect, with credit cards in the first, software (and hunting) licenses in the 2d, and various ID types (including library cards) in the third.

Distinct from Identifications, the Identities category lets you save personal details. Dissimilar LastPass, Dashlane, Sticky Countersign, and nigh other password managers, Intuitive Password doesn't help you fill Spider web forms using this information. It's just static data.

If all these categories and subcategories seem overwhelming, don't worry; you lot tin can customize the display to hibernate any that you don't use. On the flip side, if you need to store a type of data that'south not included past default, you can create a custom category.

To enter a new item, y'all outset select the desired category and subcategory at left, then make full in the essential information at right. The verbal data fields volition vary depending on the type of detail, only you always have the option to include a rich-text notation with the entry, and to add up to 3 tags. When you click on an item listed in the middle pane, its details appear in the correct-hand pane, which includes tabs for viewing the data, editing it, and creating a new entry.

As noted, Intuitive Password lacks the automated password capture found in the vast majority of password managers. Rather, you blazon in the username and password manually, simply equally you would any other fields, and copy/paste the domain portion of the login screen'due south URL. If yous're recording details as you register for a new account, you lot can create a strong password using the built-in password generator.

In testing, I ran into one oddity. When I tried to save an entry for one shopping site, I got a strange message rejecting the entry, stating that certain characters are "restricted past the platform" for security reasons. My username and password didn't have any oddball characters, though. It turns out that the login URL I copied was the culprit. Intuitive Password couldn't handle the string %2F, which is the standard per centum encoding for a forward slash. That'south strange.

New in this edition is the option to create folders for organizing stored items. You tin even create nested folders. However, moving logins and other items into folders is a tough slog. You lot can't drag and driblet, because folders aren't visible in the category view and items not in folders aren't visible in the folders view. Instead, you lot must select each detail, click to edit, scroll downwardly, select a folder, and click to update the data. I find it awkward that after clicking the Update push at the lesser of the screen, you have to click an Update confirmation that shows up at the peak of the screen. If you programme to utilize folders, you'd be smart to create all that you may need right abroad, and assign each particular to a folder at the time yous create it.

You tin select a folder and create one or more subfolders. For case, I put Dining and Movies as subfolders of Entertainment. I'm not sure how deep you can go, but I didn't hitting a limit. Rather than displaying every bit a tree, Intuitive Password marks the level number, L0, L1, and so on. I tin't imagine needing more than a few levels.

New since my final review, Intuitive Password creates what it calls a restore point each fourth dimension you modify an entry. Keeper Password Manager & Digital Vault also logs all your changes. Likewise new, you can add a flag in one of vi colors to any detail. With all the categories, folders, tags, and flags, you're sure to find your own favorite method of organization.

Countersign Generator and Free Tools

Intuitive Password has two distinct password generators. If yous click the password generator icon in the program, the generator appears just below. By default, it creates 12-character passwords using all character types. That'southward better than RoboForm, which defaults to eight characters using all types, or Ascendo's default of eight alphabetic characters. At the other end of the spectrum is the complimentary Myki Password Manager & Authenticator, which creates thirty-grapheme passwords by default. I advise cranking Intuitive Password's generator up to at to the lowest degree 16 characters.

Clicking the wrench icon at the top of the main window offers three free tools, 1 of which is another countersign manager. This is an online app, available to anyone on the Intuitive Countersign website. It, too, defaults to 12-character passwords. Strangely, information technology omits symbols by default; exist sure to check that box. Where the in-app password manager maxes out at 32 characters, you can set the online one equally loftier as 99 characters. I'm not certain why yous demand this, but the online password generator creates multiple passwords, five at a fourth dimension by default, with a maximum of 99 at once.

Another free app lets you send one-view secret messages. Yous blazon your messages in a full WYSIWYG editor, optionally add a password, and click Create Note. The page displays an admission code that the recipient enters on Intuitive Password's site to read the note. Awkwardly, you can't copy/paste the access code, and since information technology's good for merely one use, you tin can't test to exist certain you transcribed it correctly.

The regular secure sharing arrangement, described below, requires that the recipient have an Intuitive Countersign business relationship. Yous tin also create what's chosen a public share. This yields two tokens, a Data ID and a Permission Lawmaking. Transmit these tokens, preferably by dissimilar means (maybe 1 by text, 1 by email) to the recipient. As with the cloak-and-dagger message codes, y'all can't re-create/paste these items, only at least you can test them to exist sure you transcribed them correctly. The recipient navigates to the View Shared Passwords page and enters those values to receive the shared item. To revoke a public share, you can either plough off public sharing for the entry, or refresh the Permission Lawmaking.

Import, Export, and Sharing

Intuitive Countersign can import information from other password managers, merely only if yous tweak the data into the right CSV file format. To make importing easier, the product can generate a CSV template file for y'all. The import procedure merely brings over the title, username, password, and URL, not any categories, tags, or other fields.

You tin consign your saved data to CSV, TXT, HTML, JSON, or XML. There's also an option to create an encrypted backup of your information, or restore an existing fill-in.

Like Keeper, LastPass, LogMeOnce Password Management Suite Ultimate, and a few others, Intuitive Password lets you securely share credentials with other users of the program. If you cull to permit editing, changes made past the recipient volition touch on the original. You tin can too unshare if necessary. The Secure Messenger feature lets you exchange secure notes with other users in much the same mode.

You tin ascertain groups of users and share items with an unabridged group, optionally making the items read-only for some or all group members. The similar feature in LastPass recently moved into a divide product called LastPass Family unit. Keeper turns the concept effectually, letting you put passwords in folders that you share with others.

Offline Manner

It's tough to employ a totally web-based password manager when you take no internet connection. Yous don't demand it to log into websites, but you lot nonetheless might desire to view your saved personal data. That's where Offline Mode comes in. When y'all select Offline Mode, you're telling Intuitive Password to create a static copy of your login information that'due south not dependent on the company's servers. You lot tin save it to Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, or Box, or you lot tin can save a local copy. Of class, you can't use the cloud-storage copy when you're really offline, only it serves as a backup.

During cosmos of the offline copy, you're prompted to create a master countersign that should be dissimilar from your chief master password. I felt that was likewise much complication; I used the same password for both. In place of the regular three-panel display, offline mode is a simple list, with details for the selected particular actualization inline. This screen would be much improved by a search box.

Emergency Access and Password Inheritance

Intuitive Password now offers not i just two means to handle giving others access to your business relationship. Emergency access, available fifty-fifty in the gratuitous edition, was present the last time I reviewed this product. Information technology creates a lengthy access code, advising that you print information technology off and give information technology to "your most trusted family member or friend." The printout is an official-looking grade that includes the lawmaking forth with instructions on how to employ information technology.

If you're incapacitated, the recipient can apply the code to get read-but access to your business relationship, without whatever demand to set a full Intuitive Countersign account. The display is like the regular principal window, but a red banner declares that it'due south read-only, and the Preferences and Security Features tabs don't announced at left. Emergency access lasts for 2 hours, during which the recipient can access and view all your information. Afterwards that, the access lawmaking expires.

Password Inheritance is quite another thing. The purpose of this feature is to hand off your business relationship to your heirs after your death. Equally with the similar feature in Dashlane, LastPass, LogMeOnce, and RoboForm Everywhere, you lot identify a beneficiary and set a waiting time, which tin range from 1 day to a surprising two years. If a too-eager beneficiary tries to access your account while you're still breathing, you lot can revoke inheritance.

There are several steps to the procedure. Your heir must receive and respond to a verification email. Every bit with emergency access, the program prompts you to impress out an say-so class that includes the secret fundamental and instructions for activating inheritance.

LogMeOnce and Dashlane let y'all give just part of your countersign drove to your heirs. Zoho Vault distinguishes personal from business passwords and lets an administrator take over the business ones, for example when an employee departs. With Intuitive Password, in that location's a style to exempt some passwords from inheritance, but it's bad-mannered. For every countersign, you have the option to require the master password on each use. If you turn on that selection for your nearly personal passwords and omit the master password when you lot set up inheritance, your heir won't get them. Of class, this also means you lot'll have to enter your master password a lot.

Past default, when an heir takes your countersign collection, Intuitive Password revokes all shares and removes offline access. I propose leaving these options enabled—they're smart.

Security Dashboard

Intuitive Password flags your login passwords as condom, vulnerable, or not condom. Clicking the icon for an entry displays the password in question, along with a rubber rating from 1 to v stars. I establish the rating system to be a bit off. For example, it gave five stars to the password bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb (15 b'southward). Dashlane and Keeper both flagged that password as very weak.

New since my concluding review, the Security Dashboard reports on the forcefulness of all your passwords and flags those that are old, weak, or reused. You heighten your overall security score by updating weak and reused passwords, but other skillful practices too feed into your score. Yous get points for enabling ii-factor hallmark and anti-phishing protection, and for having a main password that's stiff and not likewise one-time. Enabling automated logout and state restrictions helps your score, as does generating single-apply codes. Finally, if your score is above fourscore percent it gets an actress boost.

In that location'southward no automatic password changing like you get with LastPass, Dashlane, and LogMeOnce. You can't even go directly to a trouble site by clicking on information technology. And a couple elements of the study dislocated me in testing. An icon with a picture of a diskette appeared next to each item. Clicking it blanked the screen briefly, merely I saw no other consequence. And I couldn't fathom the column titled Checked with a Yes/No button for each item. I looked for help in the drove of video tutorials, but they oasis't kept upward with new features.

My contact at the company came through with an explanation. Y'all tin change the password that's displayed in the dashboard and click the salve icon to salvage the new countersign. Then, you'd open the site in some other tab, change the password there, and and then switch back to the dashboard to tape your change. As for the Checked column, setting information technology to Yes verifies that you've checked the password and it is as safety as possible. You could apply this to keep things like four-digit PINs from dragging down your score.

Avant-garde Features

Intuitive Password supports two forms of ii-factor hallmark, for more security than just a principal countersign. Y'all can have it crave an authentication lawmaking texted to your registered mobile phone, or y'all can fix it to utilize Google Authenticator (or a Google Authenticator work-akin such as Duo Mobile). If you lot go the SMS road, it generates ten backup codes, for employ when your phone isn't at hand.

Logging in with a stiff master password can be tough on mobile devices. Yous tin can now define a device-specific six-digit Pin for each device, and log in using just the PIN. At commencement this sounds sketchy, security-wise, but your protection is still pretty good. A hacker would have to steal your phone, get by your lock screen, and somehow obtain the Pin.

Protection against phishing is a new feature, with very limited scope. Its unabridged purpose is to foreclose y'all from accidentally logging into a site masquerading as the Intuitive Password website. You load it with a phrase that ways something to you. Henceforward, you'll meet that phrase during the login process. If yous don't see it, run abroad! Information technology's a trap!

Unless you're a globe-trotting world traveler, you probably log into your countersign vault from your land of residence, and nowhere else. A login attempt from, say, Romania or People's republic of china is surely bogus. You can set Intuitive Password to reject logins from all countries except those where you reside or travel. You tin can besides create single-utilise codes, to foil shoulder-surfers. The codes expire after a week, and so generate your listing just earlier you become traveling. You can wipe out any leftover codes on your return.

Here's a security feature I could practice without. I spent a couple days in testing, and at ane point, Intuitive Password displayed a big bulletin, "Oops! Your IP address has been blocked due to illegal operation." I know I mistyped my lengthy master password a few times, but "illegal operation" is a pretty strong statement. My company contact explained that using two accounts from the same IP address (I used one Gratuitous account and ane Advanced) was one of the behaviors that fed into blocking the IP accost.

Useful for Some

This edition of Intuitive Countersign adds some handy new features, amidst them the Security Dashboard, a password inheritance organization, and the pick to organize your passwords using folders. On the other hand, these new features add together complication to the already burgeoning feature set. I had trouble puzzling some of them out, and the tutorials are outdated. In improver, I ran into a number of awkward quirks in the user interface.

Previously, this program's claim to fame was the absolutely geeky apply of bookmarklets for filling credentials. That meant you could use it with any browser capable of processing JavaScript, and on any platform equipped with such a browser. Now you tin can only use it with the Chrome extension, Firefox extension, or mobile apps. And later all these changes, it however doesn't automatically capture passwords, a feat performed by almost every competing product, even about free password managers.

True security geeks and inveterate tinkerers may make use of this utility's many layers of security. However, the average user is amend off with a password director that smoothly handles everyday tasks like password capture and replay, and keeps the advanced features bachelor but not front-and-center. Dashlane and Keeper Password Manager & Digital Vault maintain this focus on a smooth user experience, and both are Editors' Pick password managers. LogMeOnce Password Management Suite Ultimate and Sticky Password Premium are also Editors' Choice products at present, but I will be examining them anew with complexity in mind.

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