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I use lastpass. Never tried any other password manager. I don't mind logging into it. On my phone I can swipe my thumb. The only thing I don't like is having to type out the long random passwords on non-physical-keyboards - like setting up a roku to connect to amazon play and spending an extra 15 clicks switching case/keyboard.

How often do you have to log into it? Is it specific to a device?

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+1 for lastpass. On it for now 4 years, they've gotten more aggressive on development as the market grew but still simple as the first time I've used it.

I'm guessing you use Lastpass premium if you use it on your phone? I use lastpass on all my devices. I like the phone app but I got premium for free for one year and it's about to run out. Looking for a free alternative.

It's only $12 a year for the premium service. Do you feel you're not getting at least $12 value for the ability to have a reliable, secure password manager that is actively supported?

I'd skip lunch for a day to pay for it.

I like that I can open up an incognito window in Chrome at work, login to LastPass, have access to many things, then when the window closes, I log out, or shut the machine down then I am logged out.

I do have Google Authenticator tied to it, so logging in once a day is a little annoying, but overall it is a good experience.

I have the phone app (LastPass Premium) and while it is fine, it is a little buggy/annoying/meh. I haven't decided if I'm going to renew or not. I don't really blame the company for the limitations, they're trying to work around heavy app sandboxing, but after it all the user experience remains subpar.

Overall I would recommend it. In particular if you use Google Authenticator with it and a very solid master password.

I started using Lastpass when I switched jobs and the company I moved to used it. The ability to share logins with people/groups without actually exposing the password is wonderful in the corporate setting, as it makes revoking a group of passwords (think company-level social media accounts) simple and worryfree.

It works well enough to have convinced me to buy Premium on my personal account.

> the ability to share logins with people/groups without actually exposing the password is wonderful in the corporate setting

I haven't tried this for a long time, but the last time someone shared a password with me through LastPass, I was able to easily grab the plaintext just by watching the network traffic with dev tools. So this feature seems questionable to me.

IMO, if you're "sharing" a password it should be visible to the sharee. Then, if you revoke it just change it - last pass knows how to make passwords

Another vote for Lastpass. Truly cross platform as it works on Linux as well. And the price is much less then 1password.

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