Migrating data
Will they let you switch to another app?
Password managers aren’t new, and there’s a good chance that you’ve used one before. Unfortunately, these aren’t among the most actively developed class of software, which explains why we haven’t repeated any software from our Roundup in LXF139. Since that Roundup was published, most of the projects have ceased development. This isn’t to say that they aren’t usable, but you’re unlikely to find support or have a feature request fulfilled. In fact, PasswordGorilla hasn’t seen a new release in many years either, but was included because of its stability. Also, the project’s GitHub page remains active and the developers are working on version 1.60, which ultimately ensured its inclusion. If you’re going to trust your important login credentials to software, it’s only fair to expect it to be actively developed, or at least maintained, to ensure that all your sensitive data remains safe and secure. But if you decide to switch from one tool to another, or want to try one of these instead of your current arrangement, you can take advantage of their import feature. The alternative, having to manually create all the entries for the various services, would be far too tiresome.
With the exception of Encryptr, which has no import or export support, all the tools here permit the export of your stored passwords to an unencrypted CSV text file. You can then import the CSV file into any other tool on our list.
Bitwarden goes much further by supporting the import of data from over two dozen sources. This includes almost all of the tools we covered in the previous password manager Roundup, as well as various others, not to mention import from web browsers such as Firefox and Opera.