Dashlane

Dashlane stores, generates and autofills your passwords across every device, but its real selling point is how much it bundles around that core. On top of the password manager you get a VPN (powered by Hotspot Shield), dark-web monitoring that watches for leaked credentials, and password-health reports that flag weak or reused logins. It syncs everywhere and fills logins and forms automatically. It's the pick for anyone who would rather pay for one all-in-one subscription than stitch together a separate password manager, VPN and monitoring service.

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Very. Dashlane uses zero-knowledge AES-256 encryption, commissions independent security audits, publishes a detailed security whitepaper, and has never had a breach of user vaults since it launched in 2009. The honest trade-offs are its price and its browser-first design — questions of value and taste, not of trust or safety.

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Dashlane Premium starts at US$4.99/mo on the annual plan — the priciest individual option in this line-up, a premium justified by the bundled VPN and dark-web monitoring rather than the password manager alone. A Friends & Family plan covers up to ten people and brings the per-person cost down sharply. There's no permanent free plan any more, but a free trial lets you set everything up and test the apps before you decide whether the all-in-one bundle is worth it for you.

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Dashlane is an independent company with no big-tech or security-conglomerate owner. It was founded in Paris in 2009 and is now headquartered in New York, with much of its engineering still based in Paris. It's backed by venture-capital investors rather than a corporate parent, and continues to operate on its own.

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Install the Dashlane extension from the Chrome Web Store, click its icon in the toolbar, and sign in. Because Dashlane is browser-first, the extension effectively is the main app — your vault, autofill, password generator and settings all live inside it. Pin it via Chrome's puzzle-piece menu so the icon stays visible and one-click access is always there.

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At US$4.99/mo it's the priciest individual plan in our line-up, so the maths only works if you'll actually use the bundled VPN and dark-web monitoring — otherwise you're paying for extras you won't touch. It's also browser-first, with no standalone desktop app any more, which some people dislike, and there's no permanent free plan, only a trial. None of this is a security concern; the encryption and audit record are solid. The disadvantages are purely about price and the web-centric approach, not about how safe your passwords are.

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