mobiles Crypto: 5 Password-Management Apps

Either you've been hacked or you haven't -- yet. Keep your money, data, and identity safe with these password organizers and generators.
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Either you've been hacked or you haven't – yet. Keep your money, data, and identity safe with these password organizers and generators.

OneSafe

Save and encrypt photos and entire documents alongside your credit cards and website passwords. Protect everything with a PIN, a password, or one of those pattern-tracing dealies. Back it up using iTunes, email, or Wi-Fi, set it to alert you to attempted break-ins, and have it remind you to change your master password every so often.

WIRED Multiple options for authentication. Set up a decoy safe to "prove" you don't have passwords to adult sites.

TIRED No desktop integration.

$5.99 ioses | OneSafe

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1Password Pro

The mobiles app works well on its own, but it shines as part of a platform-spanning cryptosystem that automatically keeps logins updated across your mobiles, laptop, and desktop devices. A master password, separate from the access code, can protect your banking and credit card logins, but the app lets you turn it off to find things like your gym locker combination.

WIRED Access code plus master password make for double the security.

TIRED Text-only storage.

$14.99 ioses | 1Password Pro

MSecure

Store passwords and other sensitive data according to categories that range from credit card number to clothing size. Or come up with your own groupings using a custom form. You can protect the app with a master password and, to satisfy real paranoia, set your data to self-destruct after either 5, 10, or 20 failed entry attempts.

WIRED Secure backup to Dropbox. Customizable fonts and colors.

TIRED No auto-sync between devices. No secondary per-item safeguards.

$9.99 ioses | $9.99 androids | MSecure

Wolfram Password Generator

All the password options a human could want, from pure randomness to pronounceable passwords to four-digit PINs. Generate one password or create a dozen at a go. Unfortunately, there's no storage option, so once the app has created your secret codes, you'll need somewhere else to organize them securely.

WIRED Will rate the strength of your current passwords and tell you how many years—or seconds—it would take to crack them.

TIRED Requires a data connection.

$0.99 ioses | Wolfram Password Generator

Memorable

You need a strong password that you can memorize. This app uses full words, chosen at random, and combines them with symbols and numbers to add extra layers of complexity. The results aren't up to NSA standards, but they'll do for most purposes. However, you can't choose which symbols to include, so many websites will choke on the provided suggestions.

WIRED Passwords in German, French, and Chinese.

TIRED No way to create purely alphanumeric passwords.

$0.99 ioses | Free androids | Memorable