Dashlane Password Manager Adds Features and Hikes Price

what's new in dash Lane six. Dashlane is a password manager, an app that both creates complex and secure passwords, plus it stores them for you, so you really don't have to worry about remembering your password for various sites. When you need to log into an account, you can either copy and paste the password from the Dashlane app, or Dashlane will even log in for you, depending on the

platform you're using. So if you're on your phone on Android, it can log right in for you, or if you're on your web browser using something like Chrome, it will literally just log into the website. It's pretty easy. That's the basic functionality, and the benefit here is that you're not reusing the same password over and over for various websites, so if a website is hacked, they don't get your password for other sites. The damage is basically limited. Also,

you're using passwords that hopefully people can't figure out. Dashlane six has a new feature which they call password Health. This is a quick view of how healthy your password life is, including any passwords that should be changed immediately due to a recent hack or compromise. They also have a dashboard that tells you how many of your passwords are weak or those that are reused, which are red

flags and you probably want to change. They also have a feature that lets you change your passwords at one site or a bunch of sites in just one click. Dashlane says that's supported on five hundred websites or more. I find that it only works on a handful of my websites, maybe twenty or thirty, but it's still a nice feature to have. Dashlane also includes one gigabyte of secure storage, so you can save sensitive encrypted files here. And there's also a feature that lets you share passwords

with friends or family members who also have Dashlane. This is actually quite useful because let's say you and your wife share the same password for Amazon to order stuff. You can literally share your password with her inside the Dashlane app, so it's not pasted in an email or a text message much more secure this way. One of the new features is VPN. I think a lot of

people will welcome this one. Dash Lane Premium and Premium Plus customers can now secure their connections to the Internet with a VPN, which is really great if you're traveling or connecting to a random Wi Fi network. Dash Lane's VPN will encrypt your traffic and make it more secure, and it's unlimited, which is actually a pretty valuable perk. Then, when it comes to monitoring your online identity, dash Lane is also adding a bunch of new features here, sort

of competing with the likes of LifeLock. For starters, you can pop in up to five email addresses to monitor to see if they show up anywhere on the internet. Dashlane says it can scan up to thirty two billion records related to hacks and breaches, and these next features are reserved for the top tier, the Premium Plus users, which is dash Lane's newest and most expensive tier at one hundred and twenty dollars a year. You get credit monitoring and Alert's powered by TransUnion. You can also see

your credit score. Then there's ID restoration support for help if your identity is stolen an ID theft insurance of up to one million dollars. Clearly, Dashlane is going above and beyond just storing your passwords for a full suite of digital privacy. But now let's break down the cost and whether it's worth it. Dashlane at its core is free that lets you create and store your passwords, but

they don't sink across devices. So if you just want to start somewhere, you can install the app on your phone and whenever you need to log into a website, you can copy and paste the password from Dashlane, or you can just look at the password on dash Lane and type it in on your desktop. But my feeling is that you're probably gonna grow frustrated with this process pretty quickly and want to upgrade. So the next step up is a subscription, which now runs sixty dollars a year.

This is a twenty dollars price increase as of today, it used to cost forty dollars, and a year ago it used to cost thirty dollars, so Dashlane has raised their prices a lot in the past couple of years. After that, if you want a Premium plus membership that will run you one hundred and twenty dollars a year that includes the credit monitoring and the ID theft insurre curren And keep in mind all these prices are just

for one person. Dashlane does not have any family plans right now, so a couple would have to pay one hundred and twenty dollars a year for password management or two hundred forty dollars a year for the top of the line plan. Now. When I tweeted about the price increase, dash Lane tweeted this back, Hi, Rich Dashlane six is a major evolution towards putting our customers in full control of their digital identity. As a matter of fact, we worked with over five thousand customers on our new feature

set and pricing. Will continue to lead the industry in security and ease of use, and expect our customers will love our expanded capabilities. Thanks for the feedback on the family plan. It's definitely on our roadmap for a subsequent release. So what's the alternative here? Last Pass is a good free solution and their free service lets you sink your

password across all of your devices. But if you want premium features including no ADS, it is twenty four dollars a year or forty eight dollars a year for families. One password is a fan favorite. It started out primarily for Apple users, but now they have support for Windows and Android. One password is thirty six dollars a year or sixty dollars a year for families. I think you can see where all of this is going. If you

want good, secure password protection, you need to pay something. Overall, I think that dash Lane now offers the most complete solution, especially with the VPN included and that built in wallet to store your payment and ID information. But you kind of have to decide if the price is worth it for you. Once you start using one of these managers. It's not impossible to export your passwords and switch to a new service, but it certainly isn't something you want

to do very often. As for the credit score monitoring and ID theft protection, you can check out wallet hub. They give you a lot of these features for free, and I really like their service, although you're probably gonna have to pay anywhere to get really premium ID protection. There you have it. If you want to try out dash Lane, you can do it for thirty days free, or you can use my referral code for twenty dollars off your first year subscription. You can find a link

to that in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening. You can find links to everything I talk about here at richontech dot tv. I'm Rich Daemiro. I'll talk to you real soon