Intuitive Password 2.9

Pros Completely Web-based. Encrypts and decrypts passwords locally. Automatically fills saved credentials. Rates password strength. Can export and back up data. Two-factor authentication available. Password generator. Many layers of added security available. Can share with other users.

Cons Doesn't capture credentials as you log in. Unable to import from other password managers. Can't automate two-page login systems. No form-filling ability. Bottom Line While it still doesn't capture passwords you enter, Intuitive Password 2.9 can now automate the process of filling them in for you. This wholly Web-based service works across virtually all operating systems and includes some unusual and effective security layers. Depending on your password-management needs, it can be a good choice.

By Neil J. Rubenking

A modern Internet citizen logs on to dozens or even hundreds of secure sites from a variety of devices, so a password manager that's limited to one operating system just won't do the job. Because Intuitive Password 2.9 ($4.64 per month for the Advanced edition) is entirely cloud-based, it works on virtually any platform: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android. And it's much improved from the very early edition I reviewed previously.

Intuitive Password actually comes in four distinct editions: Free, Express, Advanced, and Pro. For this review, I evaluated the Advanced edition, as the Free and Express editions omit some features, among them the ability to create secure backups and authenticate using SMS. That $4.64 price may seem odd, but in Australian dollars it's an even $5 per month. Express costs AUD $2 per month, while Pro runs AUD $15 per month. Check the company's website for details on the various plans.

Getting Started
Signing up for Intuitive Password is simple enough. Just enter your email address and a strong password to create a free account. This password protects all of your stored private information, so make it a really, really good one. You can use the on-screen keyboard to enter it, to ensure that a keylogger couldn't capture your keystrokes.

You'll also define a security question and answer. Any time you connect from a new device you'll have to provide the answer. Don't use anything that someone else could discover about you; your high school mascot or mother's maiden name are really bad choices. Choose something that you and only you will be able to answer.

Unlike LastPass 3.0, Dashlane 2.0, and the majority of the competition, Intuitive Password doesn't attempt to capture your credentials as you log in. Instead, you enter each password manually. It does include a Quick Login bookmarklet that will fill in stored credentials for the current site. You create each saved login just once, but use it over and over, so automating the login process helps a lot.

Creating a Login
After working with the product for a while, I developed an easy technique for creating a new login. Start by opening Intuitive Password in one tab and the secure site's login page in another. Copy the secure site's URL and paste it into Intuitive Password. Fill in the username and website password in Intuitive Password and save the new entry. You may want to add tags for easy searching, and there's also a text editor for fully formatted notes.

Now, back at the secure site, click the Quick Login button on the bookmarks toolbar. If it isn't there, perhaps because you're using someone else's computer, just drag it from the Intuitive Password page to the bookmarks toolbar. You can always delete it when finished, if you really are using someone else's device.

For common sites the program will display a box showing all matching saved logins. You simply click to fill in your credentials.

If Intuitive Password hasn't encountered a given site before, it will ask your help with training. You click the username field, the password field, and the login button. After that, Intuitive Password will know how to log in at that site, and that knowledge will benefit all users of the service.

Training failed on one oddball site that has two password fields rather than username and password, but tech support tweaked the product overnight. Note that since Intuitive Password is entirely Web-based, any fixes are immediately available to all users.

The process will fail if the username and password are on different pages. For example, the SiteKey authentication technique used by bankofamerica.com and other sites can't be filled by Intuitive Password. In that case, you'll just have to copy and paste from Intuitive Password.

LastPass offers a login bookmarklet that works in much the same way. my1login, like Intuitive Password, is entirely Web-based and fills in credentials using its own bookmarklet.

Given that you must manually enter all your credentials, the ability to import from another password manager would be welcome. Alas, while Intuitive Password can export what you've entered, it doesn't attempt importing. You can (and should) make an encrypted backup of your data from time to time.

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