Proton Pass

Free password managers usually come with a catch. So what's the catch with this one? We had to look quite hard.

You get unlimited logins, on as many phones and laptops as you like. Passkeys too. LastPass's free plan makes you pick between your phone and your computer, and Keeper's stops at ten records.

Then there's the party trick, hide-my-email aliases. Signing up for a shop's newsletter? Proton Pass makes up an address just for that shop and forwards the mail to your real inbox. If spam turns up there, you know exactly who passed your address on.

It comes from the Proton Mail people and works the same way. Everything is encrypted before it leaves your device, and Proton says not even Proton can read it.

The code is open for anyone to read, and it gets checked. Recurity Labs, a security firm, audited it between January and April 2026. Going by Proton's own write-up, it found no remote exploits and no way round the encryption.

And it's on everything: Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Android, the web and five browsers.

The iPhone app is the weak spot. One App Store reviewer who came from LastPass says it never offers to save a new password, or update a changed one, while you're in the browser. You open the app and do it yourself. Proton told them it's a limit on Apple's side.

Another says a password they'd just generated never made it into the saved entry, and they got locked out of the account. Both reviews are from 2025.

Two-factor codes cost money. The built-in authenticator is on Pass Plus. So are sharing a single login, Dark Web Monitoring and file attachments.

It's tied to your Proton account, too. One login opens your email, your files and your passwords. Handy, but a couple of people on Hacker News wish Pass had a password of its own.

The free plan stops at 2 vaults and 10 aliases. Ten sounds like plenty until you start making one for every shop.

And there's no free trial of the paid plans. You get 30 days to ask for your money back instead.

Start free. For most people that's the whole story: unlimited logins, unlimited devices, no card.

Pass Plus is $2.99 a month if you pay for the year, which comes to $35.88. Month to month it's $4.99. You get unlimited aliases, the two-factor authenticator, sharing, Dark Web Monitoring, file attachments and Emergency Access.

Is it worth it? If you want your two-factor codes filled in for you, yes. If you just want your passwords on every device, free already does that.

Pass Family is $4.99 a month on the yearly plan, or $59.88 a year, for up to six people. That's under a dollar a head each month.

Already paying for Proton Mail or Proton VPN? Look at Proton Unlimited. It's $9.99 a month on the yearly plan and bundles Pass with Mail, Calendar, VPN and Drive.

Bitwarden Premium is cheaper at $19.80 a year, so we'd price the two side by side before paying.

Proton Pass has 4.8 on the App Store from about 8,500 ratings. Nine in ten are five stars.

A lot of the fans are people leaving something else. On Hacker News it turns up most in threads where people are moving off Bitwarden or 1Password. One commenter brought everything over from 1Password in about 15 minutes. Another says autofill went from worse than Bitwarden's to better.

Sharing gets a mention as well. A former Bitwarden user finds it simpler to hand one login to one person here.

Aliases are the bit people fall for. One App Store reviewer now makes one for every new account.

Who's not happy? iPhone users who miss being asked to save passwords. One reviewer who switched from 1Password likes it but wants a place for Wi-Fi passwords and passport details.

And some are just careful. One commenter went back to 1Password after finding autofill hit and miss. Another said in late 2025 that it still felt too new to hold everything.