Every free password managers tier that clears our bar in 2026: 4 offers meet the criteria and 3 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 5 of them: on 2 the page we cite did not answer, and on 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Free plan: Limited to 1 device type. Simple password management with unlimited password storage, autofill, dark web monitoring, and basic password sharing. The page we cite for LastPass states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-09-03.
Unlimited passwords on 1 device at a time. Password generator. Import/export. AutoFill. No passkey storage, no item sharing, no email masking, no password health, no data breach scanner on free. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-07, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Unlimited vault items (passwords, notes, cards, identities). Unlimited devices. Password generator. Basic 2FA (email, authenticator app). No TOTP code storage, no emergency access, no Vault Health Reports on free. Open-source. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-26, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Unlimited logins, notes, and devices. 10 hide-my-email aliases. Integrated 2FA/TOTP. Passkey support. Vault sharing. End-to-end encrypted. Web, browser extension, mobile, and desktop apps. No credit card storage or unlimited aliases on free.
Fully free, built into iOS 18+/macOS Sequoia+. Unlimited passwords, passkeys, verification codes (TOTP), Wi-Fi passwords. iCloud Keychain sync. Shared groups. Security alerts for compromised passwords. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-15, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Fully free and open-source (GPLv2+). Unlimited entries. Local encrypted database (AES-256, ChaCha20). TOTP support. Browser integration. SSH agent. YubiKey support. No built-in cloud sync. Cross-platform. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-15, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Password manager (Zoho) — unlimited passwords for 1 user, password generator, browser extensions (Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge), mobile apps, secure sharing, offline access. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-24, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LastPass | Free | Free plan: Limited to 1 device type. Simple password management with unlimited password storage, autofill, dark web moni... not confirmed · page states a free price · 2026-11-09 | stable | 2026-11-09 |
| NordPass | Free | Unlimited passwords on 1 device at a time. Password generator. Import/export. AutoFill. No passkey storage, no item shar... | not published change not established · 2026-11-07 |
2026-11-07 / 2026-08-22 |
| Bitwarden | Free | Unlimited vault items (passwords, notes, cards, identities). Unlimited devices. Password generator. Basic 2FA (email, au... | not published read not reconciled · 2026-10-26 |
2026-10-26 / 2026-08-19 |
| Proton Pass | Free | Unlimited logins, notes, and devices. 10 hide-my-email aliases. Integrated 2FA/TOTP. Passkey support. Vault sharing. End... | stable | 2026-11-07 / 2026-08-21 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 free password managers offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
4 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.