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Hands-On Tech (Audio)

HOT 230: Cross-Platform Password Management - Picking the Right Password Manager

Hands-On Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Reviews, Technology, Product Reviews, Tech, Gadgets, Twit

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On Hands-On Tech, Mikah helps out viewer Jim with selecting a new password manager.

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Host: Mikah Sargent

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on Hands On Tech, let's take a look at some suggestions for a cross-platform password

0:07.7

manager once you've made the switch to a new machine. Stay tuned.

0:13.0

This is Twit.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. I'm Micah Sargent. And as is always my way, I am taking

0:27.5

your tech questions and answering them here on Hands on Tech. The question this week comes in from

0:33.3

Jim, who writes in with the following. Now that I have my new Mac, it's time for a new and

0:39.1

better password manager. I was still using LastPass on my PC. Yeah, I know you and Leo urged

0:45.8

us to switch after LastPass had been hacked, but I never got around to it. Now is finally the time.

0:51.8

I, and I bet most people, need one that works across platforms. In my case,

0:57.0

I wanted to work seamlessly on my Mac, iPad, iPhone, and my wife's iPhone. If my wife wants

1:03.5

to check our bank statement on her iPhone, she shouldn't have to wonder what the password is

1:08.0

just because I created it on the Mac. And no way can anyone correctly

1:12.1

hand enter one of those long, ugly, complicated, strong passwords that password managers love to create.

1:18.3

Bonus points, if the password manager can work with Roku, so a Netflix password created on my iPad

1:25.4

will automatically log me into Netflix on my TV.

1:29.6

So let me talk about some password manager options.

1:34.8

I, for years now, probably since like 2011 maybe, at least since 2011, I think, have been using OnePassword.

1:49.7

OnePassword has been a sponsor on the network, so just putting that out there.

1:54.4

It's $36 a year for families, I think, is the current pricing.

2:00.1

And so that's a really good price.

2:02.1

It works across Mac.

2:03.8

It works with iOS.

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