When comparing passacre vs PassPilot.com, the Slant community recommends passacre for most people. In the question“What are the best offline password managers?” passacre is ranked 12th while PassPilot.com is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose passacre is:
The utility itself has no GUI, and is written in Python, so it’s portable and has few dependencies.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
The utility itself has no GUI, and is written in Python, so it’s portable and has few dependencies.
Pro Requires little to no storage
Passacre needs only a configuration file to tell it how to hash passwords, what kind of output it should produce, and which sites need specific generation rules. There’s no database where passwords are stored, so it’s not possible to be locked out of everything if that file is lost.
Pro Free
100% free, with no ads of course.
Pro Source code of the application is publicly available
Anyone with good knowledge of JavaScript can review the code (nothing is compiled).
Pro Two language versions
Available in English and Polish.
Pro Two color schemes
Pro Contains strong password generator
Pro Off the grid
Probably the best feature of this application is that you can save everything to a single file and use the application offline (every offline feature is available including adding new records), no limits, no ads, for free, forever! Keep it on a flash drive, local drive or any cloud storage of your choice.
Pro Client side encryption
No one will ever know your password which is also never sent anywhere (encryption takes place in your browser). You are double protected as encrypted vault is sent over encrypted SSL connection.
Pro Strong client side AES encryption (256bits)
Using the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (SJCL).
Cons
Con Requires knowledge of the command line
To use passacre, some knowledge of the command line as well as Python is required.
Con No browser integration (no autofill)
