We live in the information age. But what do we do when our tiny brains have reached their maximum capacity for remembering passwords, pin codes, website info, account numbers, and any other private information? (After all, there were only seven dwarfs — so I’m very close to running out of ideas for new passwords.)
Well, if you’ve reached that breaking point too, maybe it’s time to look into a password manager that lets you gather all your private information under the umbrella of one master password.
There are plenty of iPhone-based choices out there but the oldest and perhaps most venerable one, Strip – Password Manager, has some great features that drew me to it.
Unlike many other password managers, entries in Strip are completely customizable to fit whatever sort of private information you’re storing. If you’re looking for a place to keep website passwords or financial account information, there are already pre-made categories for you to use. But if you don’t like their way of structuring your information you can delete their folders and create your own from scratch.
Strip can also function as a secure way to store important ideas. For example, if you sell waffle makers for living and you want a place to hide all your brilliant concepts for future waffle-making designs, you can create your own “Waffle Design” folder and a “notes” entry within it to give you room to write detailed notes.
Once you’ve entered your data, Strip is sync-able to your Mac or Windows desktop/laptop. It’s not a full-blown version of the app but it is a password-protected backup program that lets you to sync to multiple phones or export your data to a text file should you lose your phone.
Strip also features a password generator, full text search, and the ability to launch websites, make phone calls, or write emails directly from the app — a nice function that allows you to cut out that pesky middle step of writing down or cutting and pasting information once you’ve retrieved it.
I only have one complaint about Strip: it has no landscape mode for its keyboard, which makes data entry a little more susceptible to typos.
Overall, however, I found Strip – Password Manager to be incredibly intuitive and useful.
It can be purchased at the iTunes app store by clicking here
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