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Dashlane looks really promising. Does anyone here have experience with it? Does it work as smoothly everywhere as LastPass did?



I used Dashlane at a previous company. It felt like a much buggier LastPass. I avoided it to the extent possible. Most of the problems seemed to be the usual non-standard HTML / Javascript hijinks breaking things but LastPass was pretty good at dealing with that whereas Dashlane seemed to get confused much more often. They may have improved since then. This was about a year ago.


I'm not affiliated with Dashlane in any manner but I thought I'd chime in with my experience as a user. I used to use LastPass but lost a bit of confidence in them when they asked users to reset their master password [1] when an anomaly was found present in network traffic from one of their DBs. Prior to this I was looking at open source alternatives but the syncing and add-ons for each browser (which made logging in and generating passwords easier offered by Dashlane) really caught my attention. These features aren't unique to Dashlane, I'm sure. New sign-ups reap the benefits of premium features for a month or so, then you could send an invite to a friend and accrue 6 free months of premium service when they sign up (which is what I did) for free. They also offer a public password generator [2] page. They support the major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox). Dashlane also has a "security dashboard" which keeps track of password expiration, reuse, and weak password usage, with a base analysis score that gets presented to you when action on a site is required. If you want something for offline use and that is hardware based, I'd recommend checking out the Mooltipass [3]. I hope this helps.

[1] - https://www.duosecurity.com/blog/breaking-down-the-probable-... [2] - https://www.dashlane.com/password-generator [3] - http://www.themooltipass.com/


I'm a happy user of Mooltipass! Definitely a great alternative.


I switched everyone from Lastpass to Dashlane some time ago. From my perspective it works better everywhere except Linux (where it doesn't exist). We currently use it across Windows/OSX/IOS.

It is more expensive than Lastpass, but this news suggests Lastpass was underpriced for a long time.


Dashlane works under Wine on Linux as long as you also have Firefox or Chrome installed under Wine. I copy and paste back and forth.

Big fan of Dashlane's 2FA with Authy. Really easy to share passwords securely around my organization too.

Not having a Linux client is a real miss though, I also kept Lastpass because the Linux integration is seamless.


Dashlane treats passwords shared with you as second-class - you can't access shared passwords in their web app. So I would avoid Dashlane if you're seeking a solution for your team.


Is is pretty OK. I've tried also other alternatives and so far Sticky Password does a great job with the WiFi sync and cheaper price.


I use Dashlane, it is better but is not quite there yet in terms of multi-user support.




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