Most sections are broken into folders, which let you better organize your entries. Clicking any of these brings the appropriate section into view. The last of these is a test that rates your overall password security, and it calls out any weak passwords you might have saved, or duplicate passwords in your collection. The app's left rail shows your saved sites, secure notes, form fills, favorites, and security challenge. Creating entries is a snap, and the Mac app includes settings for password length and advanced features like length, character type, and even pronounceability. LastPass has a simple, single-window interface with a search bar across the top and an Add button in the upper right, for creating new entries for sites, notes, and Web forms. This is a great feature for those who are just getting started with the service. This not only installs the LastPass plugin for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, but it also imports saved passwords from those browsers as well and loads them into LastPass. Next, the Mac app prompted us to download the Mac OS browser installer. When testing the app, Max installed it on a 2012 iMac running Mac OS X Yosemite version 10.10.1.

The service is also free, though you'll need to shell out a very reasonable $12 a year to access your account from mobile apps. LastPass is available in the Apple App Store for free (Opens in a new window).

But its OS X app is lackluster by comparison, and it does little to improve the experience of using the service on a Mac. It has won the honor of being an Editors' Choice winner many times over and truly deserves its high rating. That's where password managers come in, and LastPass Premium 3.0 is one of the best password managers available. So we take shortcuts, and, in doing so, compromise our online security. People are bad at remembering passwords, and especially bad at coming up with complex, unique passwords for every app and website that requires one.

Laggy performance made editing entries difficult in testing.

Can't create new identities or folders.

Limited options compared to Web version.

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