Secrets 4 | Password Manager

It’s the best thing to ever

I moved my ~1,000 passwords over to Secrets and it imported them like a champ, without a hitch! Leaving Bitwarden for Secrets as my daily driver is saying a lot, because Bitwarden is arguably the best free password manager. With a purchase of Secrets, the integration with iOS + browsers on my PC, speed of autofill, and the fact that your data is stored on-device or in iCloud, I was convinced to make the switch! If you need support, the developer is also very responsive. I highly recommend Secrets as your one tool to manage all of your passwords!

Is it possible a toddler was smashing a bunch of buttons on an iPad and accidentally registered as an Apple dev, wrote what appears to be some kind of SwiftUI, then finished with a spit up an entire code base over babysitter’s shoulder? Dev: “Oh that’s just a little spit up, let’s make it purple cuz it’s the year of purp UI & only do the splash so we can get that 💸 cashflow goin.” ——Me: “is that why it takes 10 seconds every 5 second to open any 1 password 150x a day >> taking up 5min every 10 min I have to log in to using any app at all, leaving me with 1 second left in my day finish work?” Dev: “Goo goo ga ga” Us: “can you at least remove those painfuly useless dashboard icons that were designed for a motorcycle, yet take up 5 parking spaces inside that gigantic panel touchscreen made for a screen I can’t touch?” Me again: “fine, can we just make the app look like one app, vs 7 online boilerplate dev UI Kits pushed out by some people trying to sell mud in exchange for dough? This things is truly terrible. Been using it for over a month out of pure intent to ensure this review is based on well tested implications

1. The app is triggered like a bottom sheet following tapping of the ‘Passwords’ key via the keyboard 2. The app auto searches {{someString}} via Secrets’ search function 3. The bottomsheet ‘falls down’ again and the input field is left empty completely. Reinstalling and resetting passwords makes no difference. iPhone 13 iOS 17.5 (21F5048f) user ID: @pixelpanda

This has a nice UI that feels very Appley. However it is not serviceable as my password manager without more control over password generation. You cannot create memorable or typable passwords (i.e. using word lists) and you cannot control *which* punctuation characters are valid, only whether *any* are included. This makes it impossible to create passwords that fulfill specific site requirements (of course those requirements are often stupid, but I can't change them.) More, there are many cases where autofill does not apply: not all password use is in a browser or an iOS app. For example for login to the machine itself, or entry into a terminal, so I need to be able to create passwords that I can actually type.

I’ve grown accustomed to using a password manager but when I stopped using the one I was using for years, I struggled to find a replacement. I stumbled upon this app and I’ve been using it for sometime now without any problems.

Id like to start off by saying I love the concept the developers have implemented of this password manager but it needs a lot of work. Adding a device is a hassle, with notifications turned on in any device there is a bug that takes multiple tries to request authorization. The notification takes forever to come through to the device authorizing it. iCloud doesn’t sync and respond to password changes quickly and it’s pretty annoying. There’s a limit of default icons and images for the passwords. I’m glad they let you upload your own but preferably if they could grab the sites favicon that would be great. A feature request to add a “sign in with” mode since there are a lot of accounts people sign in using other accounts like Google or Microsoft to validate the sign in. 1Password does this really well and it helps keeping track of accounts. I would love to be a paying customer but it needs improvements.

Great app, my third and last. Awesome personal support!

Works great, great support if you do something dumb.

1. iPad version crashes frequently 2. Mac version is extremely slow on Intel models Updated: reinstalled iPad app fixed the crash issue Updated 2: after unbearable initial indexing phase (maybe 2 days), the Mac app backs to work, but I don’t understand why it still wants to index again every time it gets unlocked, for which have to wait like 10 seconds to show items stored.