What do Florida's endangered manatees have to do with password management software? Well, there's no direct connection, but a portion of the proceeds from each sale of Sticky Password 7 ($12 per year) goes to a fund dedicated to protecting the manatees. Even better, the product itself does its job very well.
You can install Sticky Password 7 on all your Windows, Android, and iOS devices and sync data among all your devices automatically. The software even supports BlackBerry OS 10, Kindle Fire, and Nokia X, though you'll have to load the APK directly. If you can make do with just 15 stored passwords, you can use Sticky Password for free. There's also a $29.99 desktop edition, a one-time purchase for those who just want to use the product on a single PC, with no device syncing. For this review, I specifically focused on the multidevice edition.
Getting Started
After installing the program on your PC, you'll start by creating your StickyAccount. Enter your email address and create a strong StickyPass—this is the password you'll need each time you install Sticky Password on a new device. You'll also define a separate master password, required each time you log in. I did find myself entering the StickyPass where I should have use the master password (or vice versa) several times.
During installation, Sticky Password offers to import any bookmarks and passwords you may have stored in supported browsers, and the list of supported browsers is huge. In addition to the usual suspects (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera) it works with less common browsers, among them SeaMonkey, Pale Moon, and Comodo Dragon. Like LastPass 3.0 Premium, Dashlane 2.0, Password Genie 4.0, and a few others, Sticky Password suppresses the browser's password-capture feature. LastPass and Dashlane go a step beyond, actively removing the passwords stored insecurely in the browser.
If you're switching to Sticky Password from LastPass, RoboForm Everywhere 7, or KeePass, you can import your existing passwords. You can also import passwords exported by another instance of Sticky Password. That's handy if you've chosen the no-sync desktop edition.
Sticky Password integrates with more browsers than any of its competition. As you surf the Web and connect with secure sites, the browser plug-in captures your credentials and offers to save them. You can edit the entry's name and assign it to a group, though you can't create a new group at this stage the way you can with LastPass.
When you revisit the site, Sticky Password automatically fills in the stored credentials. If you've saved more than one account for the site, a popup window lets you choose. You can also click the product's browser button and select from a menu of all your saved logins.
In testing, I found that Sticky Password did an unusually good job of capturing login credentials, even for sites that baffle other password managers. LastPass handles bankofamerica.com's two-page SiteKey login system, but it has to save two separate records. Intuitive Password simply can't handle a login that doesn't have username and password on the same page. Sticky Password managed this tough login with a single entry.
Some login pages are just plain weird. One that I use regularly has two password fields rather than a username and password, for example. Like LastPass and RoboForm, Sticky Password handles such pages by letting you capture all data fields on the page, not just the ones that look like a username and password pair. Not many password managers are this flexible.
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