SOFTWARE & SERVICES THAT SUPPORT PASSKEYS
Web browsers
As we explained earlier, Chrome now lets you use passkeys in both its desktop version and mobile app, and it’s likely that other browsers will follow suit. Edge also offers the feature—when you visit a site that supports passkeys, click the ‘Sign in with a passkey’ option (see screenshot right), or similar, and choose to sign in with your phone, Windows Hello, or a security key.
If you’re using Windows 11, you can save your passkeys in Windows Hello and autofill them on websites. The option to ‘Autofill passwords and passkeys’ directly in Edge was recently spotted in the developer build of the browser (see tinyurl.com/255sv5wp), so should be coming to the stable version soon (hopefully for both Windows 10 and 11).
Firefox doesn’t yet fully support passkeys, but it does let you sign into websites using USB security keys. You’ll see that option when you try to use a passkey on a supported site. As Brave and Vivaldi are based on the same Chromium code as Chrome and Edge, they also let you use passkeys from your phone, Windows Hello or a security key.
Password managers
Because passkeys are intended to replace passwords, some of the most popular password managers have adopted an ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ approach.
NordPass Password Manager, from the company behind NordVPN, was one of the first tools to add support for passkeys, back in March (nordpass.com/ passkeys). This lets you easily create, sync, and manage password-free logins across all your devices and operating systems through the NordPass web vault, desktop app (see screenshot below), Chrome and Firefox extensions, and iOS app— passkeys are also available in the Android app, but only in Android 14. Passkeys are included in the free version of NordPass, but if you want to share them with other people, you need a paid subscription, which costs from $1.24 a month.
Rival password manager Dashlane integrated passkeys even earlier, and even lets you log into your account using a biometric method or code (tinyurl. com/49c7hr45), rather than a traditional ‘master password’. However, it recently changed its free plan to limit you to 25 logins—to store unlimited passwords and passkeys, you need to upgrade to Premium for $2.49 a month.
1Password, which costs $2.99 a month after a 14-day free trial, introduced support for passkeys in September (tinyurl.com/m23ayk4w). The service usefully highlights saved logins you can convert to passkeys, and