However, Lastpass didn’t have any hiccups in taking in new signups. This is again a major disappointment from a premium, decades-old password manager. Moreover, I tried different browsers and websites to confirm this, but the problem was still there. And this is a common issue having a lot of tutorials about it. It couldn’t autofill, and this was the same problem I observed during my previous testing. LastPass, however, wasn’t up to the mark. Nordpass was smooth at auto-filling the empty fields and capturing new registrations. This is another crucial area that’s the lifeline of any password manager. So while both faltered in the imports, Nordpass does this slightly better and takes this round. I did it again to confirm this, and it returned with a similar loop confirming the issue. This was the same when I was comparing it with Bitwarden. What’s funny is that Lastpass itself couldn’t make sense of its encryption and was caught in a endless process loop: Besides, I doubt that Lastpass encrypted vault will work anywhere else, as Nordpass couldn’t recognize it and never came to a point to ask for the encryption key. You typically set an encryption key while exporting and should keep it safe for future imports. Alternatively, you can export the new vault, use some duplicate finder, and enter the left-out ones.Ĭoming to export, Nordpass simply exports in readable CSV formats, whereas Lastpass lets you export it encrypted as well. The solution here is to use a spreadsheet, check for the missing entries, and upload them manually. While Nordpass had an upper hand, neither was flawless, and it’s quite dangerous to lose some passwords while migrating to some other utility. Nordpass returned with 202 passwords and 13 notes, and Lastpass did this with 202 passwords and 4 notes. To test the import performance, I exported my Bitwarden vault (officially supported by both) having 205 passwords and 13 notes. But similar to Nordpass, you get a template to import from anywhere. On the other hand, Lastpass’s official support is rather limited. In addition, you have the Other tab with a guide to import from practically any password management utility. Nordpass has excellent import support, and you have many official options to migrate from. So Lastpass hasn’t done anything exceptional, it’s the Nordpass’s limitations that have put Lastpass at a clear advantage. Still, you get an autofill (that you can’t turn off). That’s Nordpass missing another user-friendly feature. One more significant point of difference is the login counter, and you don’t get one with Nordpass. I have uninstalled its application, and the extension was working perfectly regardless. In stark contrast, the LastPass browser extension is a standalone application. And to keep a password manager application just to make sure its extension works is definitely not a merit we should applaud. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing for others.īut personally, I don’t prefer bucket loads of applications, and instead, try for minimum installations. So technically, you can’t do anything if you don’t have the application. Everything else is controlled from the native application. The most it does is show the vault entries, and that’s about it. Notably, this article is about browser extensions and Windows applications.Īt the onset, you see two extensions having similar options working (almost) perfectly.īut the equality ends the moment you realize the Nordpass browser extension is very limited in almost everything. Simply put, we will go through each section and see where the candidates stand against each other. This means evaluation based on these factors: We’ll go with the conventional technique we’ve been doing here at Mustechie for comparing password managers.
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