pwSafe 2 - Password Safe

Updated Review: Developer contacted me and said they’ll continue to provide an option to enable legacy view in future releases. This is important to me because I like to see all available PW entry fields, regardless of whether they’re populated or not. This acts as an instant reminder to me as to which fields are available in the event I decide to create, edit or clone a record. Thank you. ****************************** I have loved and used this PW app for years now, but after the new layout mode was inflicted on me with the latest version, I hate it! Even though you can change back to legacy display mode in settings, the app description states that they’ll be doing away with the legacy view mode in the next version being released. I can’t understand why the developer would force users into the new layout, especially when you won’t be able to revert to legacy mode anymore in the future releases. When I open a PW entry, I want to see ALL fields by default, not just what the app decides to show me. Just another great app ruined by developers who just can’t leave well enough alone. I will NOT be updating this app from this point forward.

Password managers have become ubiquitous in the past 10 years. This section of the tech industry has more claims about one being better than the other than any other industry. Password managers need to only do a couple things right for security, high-level encryption, db accessibility from the iCloud or Google cloud and able to generate passwords. This app does it all and I have been using password safe, which is a sourceforge project for about 20 years. The makers of this app have perfected it and there is no reason to ever look at another password manager. The only thing that password safe does not do compared to all the others, is, it will not autofill. Autofilling in general is insecure and password safe is truly the most secure password manager option on the planet.

This gives a complete, secure way to manage your passwords across iOS and MacOS platforms. With the ability to have its data stored on iCloud or Dropbox, you can access the data from one device, make changes, and later access from different devices reflects those changes! You can have an unlimited number of safes, groups and items and because the database is stored in the long standing, proven format used by the Password Safe open source project, you can make use of this apps database on other platforms such as MS Windows, Linux, and any OS that can run the Java version of the Open Source Password Safe. This figured heavily in my decision as I used Password Safe for years before getting my first iOS device. That said, this app went beyond my expectations in terms of features, reliability and ease of use - including the ease of setting up multiple devices to access my password data! This app has served with A++ distinction. Highly recommended!