PasswordBox

When you're planning to introduce a new product, it makes sense to review competing products, taking note of their best features and of any features that seem to be missing. The creators of the PasswordBox password manager seem to have done just that. Quite a few of PasswordBox's feature resemble those of top competitors, but it adds features not found in any of them.

Quite a few password managers use a freemium marketing model. LastPass 2.0 Premium includes significant features not found in the free LastPass 2.0. You can use Dashlane 2.0 and Keeper 5.0 for free on one device, but syncing multiple devices requires a paid subscription.

PasswordBox's freemium model is quite simple. The free edition is completely full-featured, but you can only store 25 passwords. After that you need to pay for a subscription, $12 per year. Note that you can import passwords from any one of several competitors, even if it pushes your total past 25. Don't want to pay? You can "go pro" by successfully referring five friends, and when you do, you get a lifetime license, not just a single year. That's quite a deal!

Getting Started
PasswordBox installs in a flash as an extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. Just click the toolbar button to pull down its main window. To help get you started, the program presents a collection of popular websites for which it has already created login templates. Click one of the buttons, enter your username and password, and you've created a one-click login for that site.

Like Dashlane, PasswordBox has a built-in system to walk new users through the product's features. As you accomplish each task, it gets crossed out. In order to reach 100 percent, you must add a password, try a one-click login from PasswordBox, and add a total of eight passwords. You also have to send an invitation to at least one friend, and identify a trusted person to receive your passwords in the event of your death; more about that feature later.

When you've accomplished all the setup tasks, the notification bar vanishes, just as in Dashlane. If you need further instruction in how to use the program, you'll find a collection of short video tutorials accessible from the Settings page, as well as built-in help and FAQs.

There is one setting you'll probably want to change. Once you open your browser and launch PasswordBox, it stays unlocked until you shut down the browser. It does have an auto-lock feature, but it's disabled by default. I'd recommend setting it to lock after a fairly short amount of idle time. Note that the corresponding feature in Keeper is always enabled, and the longest timeout you can set is ten minutes.

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