Password Manager - Review - Herrera Modyette60

One claiming most of us volition face is keeping upwards with all those blasted passwords. You could choose one countersign for everything but i size doesn't always fit all and experts say that's non the moset secure practice.

Password Managing director is a simple application for your Windows Phone that comes with Dropbox Sync functionality and PC sync. Password Managing director allows you to shop net passwords, banking data, credit card information or miscellaneous passwords/info. If you have serial numbers yous need to maintain, Password Director would be a expert option for that too.

Continued later the break.

Password Manager Screens

Countersign Manager lays all your passwords, account information, and other vital details out rather nicely, taking full advantage of the Windows Phone 7 metro design. Each category has its ain folio to make sorting through it all rather easy.

Password Manager Master Password

In one case you install Password Manager, your get-go job is to constitute a Chief Password for the app. Y'all can choose betwixt a numeric or blastoff/numeric password. This protects the overall app from unauthorized admission. In the settings, you lot tin set the number of countersign attempts information technology takes to lock the app.

Password Manager Entry

The information entry screen has almost xxx fields of information to help document your information as complete as possible. Passwords can be synced with PC, edit with MS EXCEL and then synced back with phone making data entry super like shooting fish in a barrel.

Additional features include:

Secure encrypted database using AES 256
Dropbox sync supported, then you can backup to the cloud and restore the password database from Dropbox too as synced with any number of phones via Dropbox
Passwords available on PC or on the web. This works if you lot upload an Excel version (XML) of the password database to Dropbox, so that it will be bachelor on PC or if you take a browser with internet connection
Passwords tin be created in Excel and so synced with the phone app via Dropbox, so that information technology would exist easy to load all your data to the phone
Local telephone password database support and restore functionality
Security features include timeout and unsuccessful login attempts which can be configured in settings

Registration is required for the drop box access which will be used to sync your countersign database with your reckoner. You tin also email your passwords/information in plainly text that can be saved with an .xml extension that can be opened in Excel.

Password Manager Settings

Settings cover your Master Password, app time-out (which will require re-entry of your Master Countersign), how many log-in attempts before the app locks, and your Dropbox settings.

In giving Countersign Manager a exam drive, I found it to be a stable application with no bugs, glitches or crashes experienced. Entry is uncomplicated and if yous miss a step, pop-upwards errors will assistance guide you lot through the process. If you have a big number of passwords, account numbers, serial numbers, or other information you lot need to keep track of, Password Director is a very good option.

There are two versions of Password Manager bachelor in the Marketplace. A free, ad supported version which tin can be found hither (opens Zune) and a paid, ad-free version ($.99) that can exist found hither. The costless version has the aforementioned functionality every bit the paid but has the advertising banners on the screen.