When comparing Enpass vs pass, the Slant community recommends pass for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform password manager?” pass is ranked 3rd while Enpass is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose pass is:
As it has both Git support and encrypts passwords to GPG-encrypted text files, it is really simple to access everywhere. You can either use a self-hosted or a personal cloud hosted Git repository. It is automatically being kept up-to-date. Clients for pretty much everything and a really active community. Even if you can't run a client you will still be able to access the password by decrypting them from the Git store.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Available for all major mobile platforms
Enpass is available for all major Mobile and desktop platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10.
Pro Totally free desktop version for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows PC
Get the fully featured desktop version for free on the three most used desktop OS's.
Pro Securely saves database locally
Enpass respect users database privacy and keeps it confidential by saving all your information locally only on ones device and does not save anywhere else such as a server. All of the database is saved in an encrypted form as well.
Pro Single click to auto-login with free browser extensions
Enpass browser extensions are for available for free for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. You can auto-fill all your login and credit card details on desktop version just a single click.
Pro Stores everything
The built-in templates allows you to store logins, credit cards, bank accounts, ID cards, frequent flyer, License, ID Numbers, etc.
Pro Secure login with integrated password generator
Secure all your logins by generating strong, unique and un-guessable password with the built-in password generator. No need to remember them as Enpass does it for you.
Pro Autolock mechanism
Enpass automatically locks itself after a set time interval and keeps your data safe & secure from prying eyes, even when you forget to lock it or left it idle.
Pro Wide range of personal cloud accounts
The supported cloud saving platforms allow for your database to be available on each and every device. Sync process is also very safe and data is encrypted first and then the file is sent to cloud. The available supported services are WebDAV/ownCloud, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive and iCloud.
Pro One time purchase
Differently from other same level apps, it is a one time purchase. For all the others you will spend more for a one year license.
Pro Customize per your needs
Enpass gives you freedom to add, delete, reorder the fields and change the default category.
Pro Password audit function
A password audit will tell the user if their passwords are weak, old or duplicated which can help make better passwords for those that are found to be problematic.
Pro Easily import from other software
If you are using another password manager it is easy to importing that data into Enpass is just a matter of few clicks through the Desktop version. Automatic import wizard now imports them under separate category.
Pro Open source SQLCipher engine for AES 256 Encryption
Enpass uses open source SQLCipher engine for implementation of AES-256 bit encryption so that users can ensure the safety of their database.
Pro Touch ID support on iOS and Android
Quickly unlock Enpass by using Touch ID.
Pro Syncs with Google Drive and many other cloud services
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Pro Sharing among Enpass users
Enpass lets you to share an item in non-readable format, making it accessible to Enpass users only.
Pro Ultra portable
As it has both Git support and encrypts passwords to GPG-encrypted text files, it is really simple to access everywhere. You can either use a self-hosted or a personal cloud hosted Git repository. It is automatically being kept up-to-date. Clients for pretty much everything and a really active community. Even if you can't run a client you will still be able to access the password by decrypting them from the Git store.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Works in command line
And is basically just a bunch of GPG-encrypted files stored in a folder.
Pro Full control
You are not forced to rely on any other service provider than yourself. Like saving them on a remote server as in the case of LastPass. You don't have to extend your trust (to LastPass or any other provider).
Pro Has cross platform GUI clients
It has a Qt-based GUI, an Android and iOS app, a Firefox plugin, a Golang GUI app, an interactive CUI, a dmenu script, OS X integration, and also an Emacs package.
Pro Not using a database
It doesn't use a database like, for example, KeePass and thus doesn't open all passwords at once. Just one at a time.
Pro Scripts for importing passwords from different services
Pro Has git support
Pro Allows storing password history
You can version-control the encrypted files using Git, which allows you to track all changes done.
Pro Adheres to Unix philosophy
Does one thing and does it well.
Pro Uses standard components
As GPG and Git are widely used, it relies on thoroughly tested and secure functionality.
Pro Multi user suppport
You and your team can share a repo and different subtrees can be encrypted for different sets of GPG ids.
Pro Support for extra functionality via plugins
For example the plugin "pass-extension-tail" makes it possible to only display the non-password parts of a password file, like the username or the name of the service the password is needed for, and without showing the password.
Pro Minimal
It's very easy to understand what the program does, why it's doing it, and how it's secure.
Cons
Con Mobile app pricing is per platform
You have to pay for each mobile platform you run it on (iOS, Android), which can add up. However, these are one time charges and ultimately cheaper than subscriptions.
Con Developed in India
Con Not open source
Giving sensitive data to proprietary software is a bad idea.
Con Free mobile version very limited
Up to 20 passwords only.
Con Can't have more than one password data file (e.g. work passwords can't be separate from home on same machine)
Enpass only allows one password database. You can't have one Enpass database for work, with it's own master password, and then another separate Enpass database for home.
Enpass for Windows and Linux allows you to change the default location of Enpass database.
Con Crashes
Crashes while organizing about 200 passwords into categories.
Con Not super user friendly
Might be a little too low-level (even with GUIs) for some teams of users.
Con Exposes the names of the sites
By default each file is named 'google.com.gpg' - so someone who steals your password directory would know every site you have accounts on.
Can be mitigated with plugins like Tomb, but a noteworthy caveat.
Con Not hosted = not accessible
As everything is stored locally, there's no way to access your passwords while on public computers, etc. without exposing your private key to the world. You'll have to manually enter your passwords while looking at your phone, etc.
Con Not ideal if you have to use Windows
While windows clients technically exist, this program is quite obviously aimed at UNIX-like systems. If you have to use Windows (eg. for work) then it'll be difficult to get everything set up properly.