pwSafe - Password Safe compatible Password Manager
One-time purchase (no subscriptions or optional items) feature-complete password management. Syncs with iPhone and iPad app using iCloud.
Featured by Mac|Life as one the 20 Great Apps under $20 - http://j.mp/pwSafeMacLife
Simple & secure password management across devices and computers. pwSafe uses iCloud to keep your password databases backed-up and synced between Macs and iOS devices. It is compatible with open source Password Safe.
List of features:
- iCloud sync, realtime and bi-directional
- Generates strong passwords
- Print a hardcopy of your data for ultimate security agains data loss
- Copy password with Command + C or P
- Copy username with Command + U
- Double-click to easily copy password
- Lots of other hotkeys (see menus)
- Password history (per safe and per entry settings)
- Fully compatible with pwSafe 4 for iOS and the famous Password Safe version 3.29
- Search in all fields (Command + F for faster access)
- Organize entries in groups
- Multiple fields (title, username, password, URL, email and notes)
- Full unicode support
- Multiple safes
- Unlimited passwords
- Unlimited password groups
- Syncs with iOS devices and many types of computers with Dropbox (requires Dropbox app)
- Syncs with many types of computers via other cloud storage services
- 256-bit encryption
- Fully secure app behavior:
- Clears password from pasteboard after a timeout period, when the computer sleeps or when the app exits (fully configurable).
- Locks safe when the app exits.
- Password is marked with all kinds of "non-persist" flags, so that pasteboard managers don't save or remember it.
Instead of trusting on a single developer security knowledge, pwSafe borrows all its encryption code directly from the famous Password Safe open source password manager (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/).
Password Safe has been originally created by security guru Bruce Schneier and nowadays is maintained by Rony Shapiro. Since it has been around as an open source project for almost a decade now, it has been extensively reviewed by many experts.
What's new
** Bug fixes (see below), plus all new features of the 2.0 huge update, including print support, password history, empty groups, preferences window and much more.
- Print a hardcopy of your data
- Password history (per safe and per entry settings)
- Named password policies
- Fully compatible with pwSafe 4 and Password Safe version 3.29 file format
- Empty groups are now persistent
- Preferences window with many requested options
- Security improvements:
- Lock safe & clear password from pasteboard on computer sleep.
- Clear password from pasteboard on app exit.
- Lots of hotkeys (see menus)
- Reloads safe automatically when externally modified (e.g. Dropbox app updates it)
- Allows editing of the default username
Bug fixes in 2.1
- Printing on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion would not work
- Notes field did not have scrollbars
- Slow animation when renaming an entry
- Password clearing timeout was not working
- A crash when starting pwSafe
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- Last changed:
- Jan 08, 2013
- Category:
- Utilities
- Developer:
- App 77 Informatica e Servicos LTDA
- Version:
- 2.1
- Average Rating:
- 5.00 (345)
- Size:
- 5.5 MB






