Gabe Turner: Hey, folks.
This is Gabe at Security Baron.
Today, I'm checking out a particularly robust password manager, Dashlane.
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Gabe: In today's review of Dashlane password manager, I'm going to go over the pros and
cons, features, subscription options, customer support, and applications so you have all
the information you need to make the right decision.
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Let's kick things off with Dashlane password manager.
Looking at the pros and cons.
Beginning with the pros.
It does have a free option which lets you do up to 50 passwords.
On top of that, it has one of the broadest feature sets for any password manager on the
market with things like identity theft insurance and dark Web scan.
On the con side, it is based in New York.
Right here in this lovely city.
But that makes it a part of various international surveillance alliances.
On top of that, there is no support for multi-factor authentication so you can't do things like
fingerprint or face ID with Dashlane.
Just something to think about when looking at Dashlane password manager.
Now that we've gone over some pros and cons of Dashlane password manager, let's check
out this feature set.
The main feature of any password manager is the ability to manage all of your passwords
across accounts and also fill out some of those forms that we all get to fill out on
the Internet.
What's great about Dashlane is that it actually allows you to elect an emergency contact to
give you access to Dashlane.
You can essentially make all of your passwords better and after that have someone give you
access in case you forget that master password.
Something that is not available on many of the other password managers out there.
Now that you've got Dashlane password manager, you can either enter all of your usernames
and passwords manually or import them through Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari on your
Mac or Windows computer.
From there, Dashlane will give each of your passwords a score saying whether it's weak
or strong.
From there, you can actually have Dashlane change all those passwords across accounts
at the same time.
This is not something you'll see with every password manager so something we especially
love about Dashlane.
Once all of your passwords are in order, they'll be synced across devices.
You could have two-factor authentication for your protection so a numerical code will be
sent to another device.
We are bit surprised that there is no multi-factor authentication so there's not going to be
any facial recognition or fingerprint IDs with Dashlane password manager.
One thing we'll note is that they do have encryption of AES256.
If you're worried about password cracking, they have Argon2 to protect you from that.
If you would like to share any of your password, you can do so securely in the Dashlane app.
Looking at storage with a premium Dashlane account, you can put all of your data into
the Dashlane cloud or you can desync that or unsync that or uncouple that and put everything
on a local drive.
As long as each individual file is less than 50 megabytes.
One thing we love about Dashlane is the fact that they have so many extra features.
One of those is receipt capture, because of course everyone loves shopping online.
While most password managers give you a digital wallet to help you fill out payment information
pretty quickly, only Dashlane also has receipt capture to put all of your receipts into one,
easy-to-find folder.
That's one of the things we love about Dashlane.
Another extra that comes with Dashlane password manager is Inbox Scan.
Because let's be honest, we've all been lazy, emailed a password or two to someone.
What I will do is ensure that those credentials aren't still in your inbox and able to be
picked up by just anybody.
An upgraded version of Inbox Scan is something called the Dark Web Scan.
The dark Web is just a place for a lot of your listed activity on the Internet, so it's
a crime place.
If you want to make sure that your information and credentials aren't just readily accessible
in this hotbed of a usually criminal activity, you could just do a dark Web scan with Dashlane
to ensure your credentials aren't out there.
However, I will note that the dark Web scan is only currently available on the mobile
application.
With Dashlane password manager, you can get a VPN with a premium account.
That VPN will hide all of your Web traffic and Web activity just giving you another layer
of protection.
On top of that, you can get credit monitoring with the Premium Plus account and that's done
through TransUnion.
If anything changes with your credit report, they'll go ahead and send you a text alerting
you to that fact.
With that same Premium Plus account, you can get identity theft insurance which will insure
you against identity theft into the millions of dollars and also provides you with the
ability to restore your credit in case your identity is compromised.
Those are some really great options with the super robust, well-equipped password manager
Dashlane.
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All right, let's get back to the video.
Now that we've checked out the feature set for Dashlane password manager, let's check
out the subscription options.
Of course, you've got the free option with 50 passwords that it will save for you but
let's look at what the premium accounts are.
One thing we want to note is that with any account with Dashlane, you have to pay for
in a complete annual subscription upfront.
It's not too bad.
It's only about five bucks a month.
If you get the premium, that's with VPN, secure storage and unlimited passwords.
It's going to be 59.88 a year.
If you want that Premium Plus, which adds that credit monitoring, that identity theft
insurance and identity restoration service, it's going to be 119.98 a year or about 10
bucks a month.
Not too bad, not too repressive in terms of pricing.
In addition to these individual plans, Dashlane password manages also offers business plans.
They basically break down to about four dollars per user per month.
With these, you get two-factor authentication, secure password sharing, and smart spaces
for work and personal data.
It's good to know that that is an option with the Dashlane plan especially considering they
do not offer any family plans.
Let's jump into that customer support for Dashlane password manager.
You can look at the online Help Center, send them an email seven days a week or it's something
we don't expect with most password managers, live chat between 9:00 and 6:00 on weekdays.
Even in our own personal experience.
We send an email out and they gave us a really personable, quick, thoughtful, really long
reply within a few hours.
We thought, all right, they seem to have things together when it comes to customer support.
That actually wasn't the case when it came to Google ratings.
Google gave it a 2.9 out of 5 stars.
Of the reviews that specifically mentioned customer support, all four were negative.
The caveat is all of those were talking about the lack of phone support which honestly is
something we haven't seen with a ton of password managers.
It does do better when it comes to Trustpilot.
Dashlane gets four out of five stars with Trustpilot with 1,500 plus reviews.
We didn't go through all of those reviews but we did note that many of the ones that
talked about customer support were pretty positive.
It seems to be a little bit of a mixed bag when it comes to customer support with the
Dashlane password manager.
Let's check out the applications for Dashlane password manager.
I started up.
I just downloaded the Chrome browser extension because I tend to use Chrome.
One thing I'll note is that it does not autofill your usernames and passwords in the manner
in which it will do with Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer.
I felt that the entire process was pretty intuitive and straightforward but I will note
that there are some features that you can only access on the website and some you can
only access on the app.
There's a little bit of a consistency issue there.
Let's narrow it down and check out the mobile applications which people seem to love.
It has a 4.7 out of 5 star rating in the Google Play Store and a 4.6 out of 5 star rating
in the Apple App Store.
Let's go ahead and check it out on my iPhone 10.
Here I am checking out the Dashlane password manager.
It's a pretty straightforward app.
If you look, I'm in the vault right now.
I have passwords, secure notes, payments, personal info and IDs.
If I look in passwords, you'll note that I've put in a few of the passwords here.
Twitter, Facebook, Gmail accounts and even the yoga place I like to go to.
Let's go ahead and check out where we can create new passwords inside of the app.
If I tap on the upper right hand corner in the vault, I go to plus.
I can go, for example, to my Amazon and here I can add a password.
I can either generate one or I can add the password directly.
That's something useful for anyone trying to create new passwords across the board.
We note in this page here it has LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, Amazon, Skype,
Gmail, Outlook, eBay, just a host of websites.
You can just click in a new website right inside of the app and change your password.
Pretty useful element with the vault.
Here, if you tap in the vault itself, you'll see that you can search all items if you tap
on that plus sign in the upper right hand corner.
You can add a password, add a note, add a payment type, add personal information or
add an ID.
That's all available right here in the vault.
If I go ahead to secure notes I can do various things whether it's my banking information,
finance.
I can look at payments.
I want to add more payment details.
Here, I could do so various cards which is pretty useful.
Below that, you have personal information.
Personal info is definitely a useful thing to have here.
Finally, you can take pictures of all your passports, ID numbers and keep all your originals
safe at home.
If we look at contacts, you can just go ahead and share any item securely with a friend
or a family member or even a colleague.
If I want to share something with anyone here at Security Baron, I could do so directly
here.
You can set your friend or family member as a contact who can access your accounts in
the event of an emergency.
Be sure to get Dashlane on your computer for that process.
The tools are pretty cool.
You got your identity dashboard which gives you a password health breakdown, dark Web
monitoring, you have your VPN, Dashlane browser, password generator, password changer, and
new device connector.
Let's go ahead and check out the settings.
If you look in settings, you can change some of your settings.
While they don't have general face recognition, you can use your face ID but we will note
that they will periodically ask you for your master password just for security reasons.
There are a lot of things that one can do with Dashlane password manager.
We've come the longest of ways with Dashlane password manager and that plays into whether
or not it's right for you.
There's just so many features that come with this very affordable password manager and
really intuitive mobile application.
It just hits it each and every time it goes for a new feature.
If you're someone who really wants multi-factor authentication or to not be inside of any
international surveillance alliance, then go check something else out.
I have to say that, personally, I'm a pretty big fan of Dashlane and feel like it really
hits the right notes for a beautiful password managing song.
That concludes our review of Dashlane password manager.
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