Note: Keeper now offers dark web scans for Business and Enterprise accounts.
LastPass is one of the most popular password managers available. It’s free, reliable, and easy to use. Keeper is a lesser known password manager and also offers a free trial. So does Keeper offer anything over LastPass that makes it a better option? We’ve compared Keeper vs LastPass in a number of different categories to see how they stack up.
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Key Similarities
- Both have password generators that allow you to create strong, unique, customizable passwords
- Both offer two-factor authentication
- Both use a master password to protect your data
- Both use one-sided encryption
- Both have security features that allow you to monitor your password practices
- Both have family and business specific versions of their software
- Both are cloud-based, meaning you must be connected to the internet to use them
- Both offer tutorial-like guidance upon installation
- Both offer business subscriptions for businesses both large and small
Key Differences
- LastPass offers free credit monitoring, unlike Keeper
- While Keeper has browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Opera, LastPass adds on Internet Explorer and Safari
- Keeper has a better iOS app, while LastPass has a better Android app
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Categories
Interface
Winner: LastPass
Both LastPass and Keeper have a clean, intuitive interface. The main difference is the layout. LastPass displays your entries as a tile-like layout, while Keeper has options for list and tile. Overall, it really depends on which you prefer, but LastPass ultimately wins for being more modern looking and including the logos for the websites of your saved passwords on each tile, making it easy to find your entries quickly.
Security
Winner: LastPass
LastPass and Keeper offer very similar security features, including a feature that allows you to monitor the strength of your passwords. On LastPass, this is called the security score feature. It runs a test of all of your saved passwords, and gives you a numerical score based on that. If you have a weak score, it also gives you the option to change it. Both offer password strength reports, letting you know if you have any passwords that are old, weak or repeated. However, LastPass logs less data than Keeper, which keeps your location information with no option to opt out, unlike LastPass.
For Families
Winner: LastPass
Both LastPass and Keeper offer family-specific versions of the application. Both allow family members to securely share passwords with each other, while granting control to one administrator who can decide which family members have access to what information. LastPass Families comes out slightly ahead of the Keeper Family Plan because it allows you to have up to six family members, while Keeper allows up to five. It’s also less expensive at $48/year. The Keeper Family Plan is $60/year.
For Businesses
Winner: LastPass
LastPass and Keeper both offer impressive business-specific applications. Both allow companies to securely share data among its employees and offer comprehensive security audit features. But LastPass is more customizable for different kinds of businesses, offering two versions of their business software: LastPass Teams, for smaller businesses or inter-departmental use, and LastPass Enterprise, for larger businesses.
Pricing
Winner: LastPass
The most basic version of LastPass is free. After a 30-day free trial, a Keeper subscription starts at $30/year.
Mobile App
Winner: LastPass
LastPass and Keeper both have efficient mobile apps that maintain the best qualities of their respective desktop applications. Overall, LastPass has a cleaner mobile interface. Plus, the Keeper app has a lime-green on grey color scheme, but you can change your color scheme if you want.
Who Keeper Might Be Better For:
- Users who want to be able to easily monitor the strength of their passwords
- Users who prefer the interface
Read Our Full Keeper Review Here
Who LastPass Might Be Better For:
- Users who want the most comprehensive security features
- Businesses who want a password manager more suited to accommodate the size of the company
- Users who want a reliable, free password manager
Read Our Full LastPass Review Here
Conclusion
LastPass and Keeper are pretty similar. Either would be a good option for users who are new to password managers, as they’re both pretty intuitive and offer a guided introduction to the application when you install it. LastPass does offer more in the way of security, and there really isn’t anything Keeper offers and LastPass doesn’t. So when it comes down to it, LastPass is probably the more ideal of the two.
To learn more, read our review of the best password managers of 2019.
FAQs
What is better, Dashlane or LastPass?
Although these are both great options, but overall, I’d choose Dashlane over LastPass. Although it’s more expensive, you’ll get more features, better customer support, and a higher-rated app. Dashlane is also easier to use, which anyone can appreciate.
Which is better, 1Password or LastPass?
While 1Password is better for privacy, customer support, and user experience, LastPass takes the cake for features, subscription options, and the app.
What is the safest password manager?
The safest password manager is Enpass. It’s based in India, a non-member to Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, and 14 Eyes, meaning the government can’t force companies to hand over customer data. Plus, their data logging policy is very strict, only keeping your support requests, participation in promotions, contests or giveaways, name and email address.
6 thoughts on “Keeper Vs. LastPass— Which Password Manager Is Best?”
LastPass doesn’t support Chromebook, so for me as a Chromebook user Keeper is the winner.
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What about U2F support? I’ve read the Keeper does support this and LastPass still doesn’t. I’d have thought this would be a significant feature.
Hi Thomas! Both Keeper and LastPass have U2F support, LastPass as over September of 2018.
Keeper does offer record level encyption and more flexibility on the admin side.
Thanks for the tip!