LastPass is Now Free for Mobile Users, Here's the Catch

LastPass is a password management tool, considered to be a lead player in the industry.

The company announced that they will be offering their services for free on smartphones, tablets, and even desktops. But here’s the catch. If you start with LastPass on your smartphone, you’ll be able to sync your data only on other smartphones, the same goes for tablets, and desktops.

LastPass is compatible with Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Mac, and Windows.

It is also compatible with Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Maxthon, and Firefox.

A premium membership is required if you want to synch data between two different devices – let’s say, a smartphone, and a tablet, or a tablet, and a desktop.

There’s a 14-day trial for LastPass Premium aimed at showing users how easy it can get when you have all your passwords in one little 5,000 rounds of PBKDF2-SHA256 encrypted vault. Premium offers unlimited syncing over any device compatible with LastPass. It also features a Shared Folder, where you can, go figure, share personal data with other people.

If this sounds appealing, you’ll need to cough up $12 a year for the Premium service.

If not, you can always stick with the free version – it offers the same features as the Premium service minus the device syncing variety.

But you should also know that not long ago, 2 months actually, LastPass was hacked. Those who got into their system didn’t steal any crucial data, the company notes.

In an official statement on their blog, the just-hacked password management company reassures its users that they keep their data secure at all times, and finding a workaround, or cracking their algorithms is nearly impossible, even for those who posses a performance-driven hack-aimed computer.

But the company warns users that if they used their master password on any other website, they should change it immediately – on LastPass, and on other websites that they have used the password.

If you still aren’t swoon over, check their Why Use LastPass? clip. Maybe you’ll become a user, and who knows, even a fan.

If having all of your passwords in one vault gives you anxiety, you can always go local, and open-source. KeePass is easy to use, open-source, you can store passwords locally, and most important of all, it’s absolutely free!

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