Pros
Works with just about any Mac browser, keeps all of your passwords securely in one place, and is easy to use.

Cons
Doesn’t offer to re-save profile if you change your password for a site. (Though it’s coming!)

The Bottom Line

Overall: 4/5

Ease of Use: 5/5
Usefulness: 5/5
Security: 5/5
Price: 4/5

Recommended
Yes.

Full Review
Having used RoboForm for years on Windows, we here at SvenOnTech have come to rely on it for all of our web browsing needs. Filling in those various forms to just order a stinking CPU fan cheap from some site we found off of Froogle to requesting more product information on something we think our readers will be interested in. Since browser auto-fill really has not worked well, RoboForm has been a time saver for these tasks.

Then there’s the hundreds of sites that contain passwords of daily visited watering holes or one of the above sites that forced us to make an account. We’re pretty secure thinking around here, so we try to pick a different password for every site. Now when you have as many sites in our list as we do, you can’t possibly remember all the passwords. Again, RoboForm has helped us control that problem by storing all the site profiles in a secure file that we then access with one frequently changed password.

But then there’s the Mac. Surfing many of our sites was not fun at first. Sure, Firefox started to build up a list, but we had to teach it and had to keep looking in our RoboForm database (on our PC!) Ugh. What a drag. We searched and searched for a RoboForm-like form filler and password manager and what did we stumble over but a beta of such a program!

We were ecstatic to find 1Passwd and even more excited when we noted the RoboForm import feature! Glories of glories, we wouldn’t have to re-enter our hundreds of site profiles. 1Passwd even gives you instructions on how to get all your data out from RoboForm so the Mac password manager can suck ‘em all up. We can attest to the ease of this procedure and we’re sure anyone will be able to bring over any of their RoboForm data to their Mac in seconds.

Okay, how does compare to RoboForm, you may question? Pretty darn well. With a couple of differences, they basically are the same beast. Instead of giving you a choice via a button to Fill or Fill and Submit like in RoboForm, 1Passwd just fills and submits. You can do just the fill action if you want by holding down the option key when selecting your profile, though. Unlike RoboForm, there is no pop-up box when you visit a site that is in the database as only the toolbar displays your possible credentials for a particular web page. No biggy, but sometimes it’s nice to have the pop-up, especially for sites that have its own pop-up box for login which 1Passwd doesn’t recognize.

One thing we love about 1Passwd is the icon on the toolbar. The icon indicates if you’re 1Passwd key chain is unlocked or locked. A simple thing but a very nice feature to have to know if you’ll be prompted for your master password or not the next time you need to use 1Passwd. Another cool feature is the three level bar next to your profile name. The more likely the profile matches the site you are at, the more any of these three bars are lit green.

1Passwd also comes with a very nice editor. You can easily, and we mean easily, search for a web site or profile within the editor. All the information displays in a clear to read format and editing is as simply as clicking the entry.

1Passwd isn’t just about passwords, either. It also helps you avoide phishing scams. You know, those e-mails stating that your Chase bank account needs an update and you have to log in and then you realize you just gave some Russian hacker your bank information by accident. 1Passwd will help avoid such ugly mistakes from occurring to you. Nice.

The user profile for your name and address information works pretty well, though we did find a few sites that it didn’t fill in our name at all. But this aspect of form filling is hit and miss since many sites like to use different values for their forms that makes it difficult for 1Passwd, or any other filler, to catch. Still, it worked better for us than Firefox’s or Safari’s auto-fill feature.

We would like to mention the fact that the 1Passwd team is one with wide open ears. We made a few suggestions and found them implemented in a build two days later. The re-saving passwords is one suggestion it couldn’t get in in time for this review; however, it is coming in the next major release. We’re sure we didn’t think of everything, so if you’ve got a suggestion, send it in and we bet you’ll see it real fast!

Overall
If you’re looking for a program that keeps track of all your password and automatically fill them in when you visit a site, then this is a great program for that. With strong encrypted protection to protect your many passwords, 1Passwd is a winner. Idenity profiles and phishing protection are just two more great reasons to nab this for your Mac today.

Price: $29.95

Product information from 1Passwd.

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