Gabe Turner: Hey, folks. This is Gabe at Security Baron. Are you thinking of new passwords but
just can't get any of them to stick? We might have the password manager review for you with
Sticky Password.
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Gabe: In today's review of Sticky Password password manager, we're going to go over some
pros and cons, its feature set, the subscription options, its customer support before finally
delving into its applications to make sure you have all the information you need to make
the right decision.
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Gabe: If you like to see a list of our favorite password managers, google "Security Baron
best password managers." If you have a question about today's review, leave us a comment and
I'll get back to you.
Let's kick off today's review of Sticky Password checking out some pros and cons. On the pros
side, it does come with multi-factor authentication which gives you two independent layers of
security for getting into your particular password manager.
On top of that, it does come with a VPN through Ivacy VPN so you can subscribe and get access
to that extra layer of security in your entire browsing experience.
On the cons side, there's no dark Web scan so you cannot get any security breach alerts
and they do not actually have an emergency contact option. If you want to get access
to your vault but you've forgotten your master password, you're out of luck unfortunately.
You won't be able to do anything but to start all over again.
That's our look at the pros and cons for Sticky Password.
Now that we're done with the pros and cons for Sticky Password, let's talk about its
feature set. The main feature for any password manager is the ability for it to store all
your passwords in a vault.
With Sticky Password you can do so, you can manually put them all in or you can import
them from a browser like Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, you get the idea. When you
put all those passwords in there's going to be a password strength report that tells you
if any of your passwords are old or weak or repeated.
Then you can create new, stronger passwords using the Sticky Password password generator.
In terms of encryption it's going to use the industry standard. If you want to share a
password, you can do so from directly within the app. No more emailing people your logins
and passwords because those things definitely end up in the wrong hands.
You'll also be able to use two or multi-factor authentication with Sticky Password. When
it comes to storage with your Sticky Password password manager, you have a couple of options.
You can store it in the Cloud or you can store it locally on a USB stick or memory card.
If you want to be completely off the grid, off the Cloud, you can do that storage solely
on your local device, but remember to not ever lose it or forget it because then you'll
be stuck at square one.
No matter if you decide to go with the Cloud or local or both, it's always going to be
encrypted. One of the final things we'll note about Sticky Password is that if you go buy
it through the Ivacy VPN, no matter which Ivacy VPN subscription you get, you're going
to get a full year of Sticky Password on the house.
Overall, that's a look at the feature set for Sticky Password password manager.
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Let's get back to the video. Now we've gone over some pros and cons and the feature set
for Sticky Password, let's check out that green. They keep things pretty simple. It's
$29.99 for a year upfront for Sticky Password, which breaks down to about $2.50 a month.
If you want to never have to think about this again, you can get Sticky Password lifetime
access for $149.99.
Remember that you do get 30 days of more or less a free trial. You can opt out after those
30 days, and if you decide this Sticky Password is not the app for you. They also offer business
and academic plans that we find to be actually rather affordable.
If you'd like to get the full breakdown of all of these subscription options, including
academic and business enterprise plans, you can check it out and our full written review
in the link in the description.
Let's move into the customer support for Sticky Password. Sticky Password has an online help
center and an online forum to help you get the answers to questions that you may have.
They do not have a phone line, nor do they even have live chat. They do state that they'll
return any of your questions within one business day.
In our experience, that was the case. We wrote them some questions, and they got back to
us by then, that one business day. We wanted to have a larger sample size. We looked at
Google, Amazon, and Trustpilot. There were very few reviews that specifically cited customer
support. In those very few reviews, they were actually quite varied.
While our experience was pretty positive with Sticky Password, we do not have a definitive
report on the customer support for Sticky Password password manager. The final thing
we want to delve into day, are the various applications with which one can use Sticky
Password. You can use it on Mac, iPhone, Android, Windows.
It has extensions for various browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. We're going to
be looking at it particularly on mobile today, where it does really well. It has a 4.5 in
both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. It has maintained that score for months.
Let's go ahead and check it out live on my iPhone 7 Plus.
Here I am checking out the mobile application for Sticky Password. Right off the bat, I
was going to say that Sticky Password does not have the most complicated [laughs] app
out there. It's pretty straightforward. Honestly, it works for me.
When you open up the app, you'll note that you have various accounts, like a Web account,
app account, identities, bookmarks, secure memos, and your sharing center just visible
on that home page. You can search in the search bar for different things like ESPN, for example,
as you see here. You can look for your priority for your various secure memos.
That's a useful function, especially as you begin to build out the Sticky Password vault
that holds all of your passwords for a host of different accounts. First thing I wanted
to show, it's just using it for your typical Web account. You'll see here I've got Amazon,
ESPN, my iCloud, NPR, Pinterest. These are some common websites that people will go to.
If I want to go to ESPN, you'll see here that has my login, my password, and my launch ability.
I can just hit launch here. I can use either the Sticky browser or Safari to jump right
into the website. Let's go back out of here. Note that you see here it says, "Password
unsafe." My password is unsafe, it's reused.
This is just one of the elements of Sticky Password that allows for you to know when
you have old passwords, repeated passwords, or weak passwords. You can change it on the
desktop application for Sticky Password. If I want to keep going, you'll see below Web
accounts, there's app account. If I want to jump into my Instagram, I could do so right
here.
Pinterest has an app. Most websites these days do have some type of application. Then
we want to jump down to identities. Identities, this is a fake identity, we have Security
Baron. There's different things you can put in -- your title, contact. I can put in various
credit cards, I call this one "Lots of money." [laughs] I only keep one card on me, typically,
throughout the day, may be two.
Here you can just have your various numbers available. You can keep those cards in a safe
place in your home and not have to think about them anymore. That's one thing I particularly
like to use password managers for. I can go to business, check these out. Finance, we
can change the currency. It's all pretty straightforward.
You can also just go ahead and bookmark your favorite sites. You see here I've got ESPN,
Esquire, GQ You can tap. You can just go directly to those sites, just another way for you to
easily and with your own login information go to where you want to be on the Internet,
and feel safe about having those credentials in one space.
Another element is the secure memos. Secure memos allows you to basically put any important
information that you need to know but you don't want other people to know. Maybe, you
don't want to put it in your company's Google Doc or Google Drive. You might have priorities.
Like I put here priority one, secure the bag, Security Baron top secret, securitybaron.com.
I really like the secure memos just as a place that's little bit better than maybe just notes
app on your phone. If you've notes app, really anyone can jump in there, and just see exactly
what you have going on. The final thing you'll see on this page is the sharing center. These
are where you just share the various items that you've shared from your desktop application.
If you want to share, for example, a password with someone who you need to share a login.
That can be done safely within the password manager, Sticky Password. Otherwise, who knows,
someone might get a hold of your account and order pizza to themselves every night. Who
knows how long it'll take you to recognize that.
If you go ahead, you'll see on the top left-hand corner you've got "Settings." Here, you can
look at your settings, go into your browser, you can re-sync, and you can generate new
passwords. Let's say I wanted to generate a password. I hit "Generate," and then it
pops up "Save to a new account, copy to clipboard."
This is really interesting because I can copy this to a clipboard and then go and save a
new password to any account I have. It's really useful. You'll note here this password is
not one that I'm going to be able to really create by myself. I would never come up with
this random string of symbols, letters, and numbers at various levels of capitalization.
The password generator does it for you. It even lets you copy it right then and there
so you're not having to manually try to type this back in. That's a really useful element
of the Sticky Password app. Go back out of here. Also note that you can just lock it
up.
I've hit "Lock," and I've had to go back in and put in my sticky password in order to
actually use this. Now I've put the master password back in to Sticky Password to get
back to this home page. The final thing I want to show you is how you would create new
versions.
In the upper right-hand corner, you'll see the plus sign. It's pretty straight forward.
You can see "Add new." You can do new Web account, a new app account, an identity, bookmark,
secure memo. We can say this is it for us today in the Sticky Password app. Voila.
Here we are. Now we have a new secure memo in the Sticky Password app. That's our look
at Sticky Password on my iPhone 7 Plus.
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Gabe: Now that we've explored all that Sticky Password can do, let's recap what it can provide
for you. Sticky Password does come with Ivacy VPN, but it's also pretty affordable on its
own at $29.99 a year. With that, you get a pretty no-nonsense mobile application that
is bare bones but definitely gets the job done.
Along with that, you can customize your logins right there in the mobile app and even generate
new passwords. We would love to see the ability to designate an emergency contact, scan the
dark Web, or even receive security breech alerts, something that we typically see with
other password managers.
However, for $2.50 a month, the team at Security Baron actually thinks that Sticky Password
is an affordable and reliable, if somewhat basic choice for you and your password management
needs.
That concludes our review of Sticky Password password manager. If you appreciate today's
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Baron. Be secure.