Kaspersky Password Manager Review

What Is Kaspersky Password Manager?

Kaspersky Password Manager is a highly touted digital vault. It’s just one of the many technologies that serve Kaspersky's user-base of 40 million. Of these, it has a core group of loyal followers. 

The more than 23,000 rave Kaspersky Password Manager reviews on G2, Capterra, and Google Play prove it’s well liked. On the Mac App Store and the App Store, its 520+ testimonials are even more glowing.

In fact, its average rating across all platforms ranges from 4.1 to 4.7 stars. 

Can tens of thousands of Kaspersky Password Manager reviews be wrong?

I tested Kaspersky Password Manager for Windows, Android, and Chrome to see if its high ratings are credible or not. 

Don’t skip a section to understand my verdict on this freemium password keeper in the end!

Features

As mentioned, Kaspersky Password Manager does the basics and then some.

Primary Password

Kaspersky Password Manager requires you to devise a primary password that should always be remembered and not easily guessed. 

Using this password, you can unlock your secured Kaspersky Password Manager online vault. This software encrypts your data and decodes it using Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 (PBKDF2).

Of great importance, Kaspersky Password Manager doesn’t retain your primary password. If forgotten, it remains irretrievable.  

Rest assured, your vault won’t necessarily be gone forever. Although your primary password is irrecoverable, it is changeable.

When you change it, you have a chance to back up your old Kaspersky Password Manager vault. This way, you can transfer its contents to your new vault.

But what’s stopping malicious entities from changing your primary password and taking over your account?

The answer - your My Kaspersky credentials.

Before you can replace your primary password, you have to log into your My Kaspersky account first.

If you can’t recall your My Kaspersky password, you can reset it with the email address used to register.

For this reason, nobody can deny you access to your own Kaspersky Password Manager online vault without your My Kaspersky login details.

In summary, remembering your primary password and My Kaspersky credentials is a must.

Import and Export

Kaspersky Password Manager lets you import data from five other password managers:

• KeePass
• LastPass
• 1Password
• Norton Identity Safe
• Dashlane

Also, this software enables you to import data from browsers installed on your devices.

Additionally, if you create a backup copy of your Kaspersky Password Manager vault, it can be transferred too. This may be necessary if you lose your primary password and need to re-upload your saved data to your new vault. 

Apart from this, you can export your login details, addresses, and notes to a text file. Then, you can print them or save them on an external storage device.

At the moment, there’s no Kaspersky Password Manager export option in CSV.

Passwords and Documents

With this password saver, you can separately store your pairs of usernames and passwords for sites and apps.

In addition to login details, Kaspersky Password Manager supports digital documents, like contracts and insurance policies. It doesn't recognize Word files but is compatible with PDF-formatted docs. 

You can also save images, which proves helpful when keeping encrypted digital duplicates of your IDs, like passports or driver’s licenses. This password management software converts your image if not already in JPEG format. 

Bank Cards and Addresses

Using Kaspersky Password Manager, you can safely store your personal details often used with online forms. You can save your name, physical and email addresses, and bank card details based on the usual fields.

If using different bank cards, addresses, or any site-specific details - no worries, you can create multiple identities. 

Notes

Kaspersky Password Manager can also be your secure personal notepad. Each note has a limit of 4,096 characters (including spaces), but it has no formatting features.

One User Account

Every Kaspersky Password Manager free or premium license has a one-user limit. This means you can’t share it with others when using it yourself.

But it’s possible to make Kaspersky Password Manager licenses accessible to multiple users through bundles. I’ll shed light on them in a few.

Password Generator

By design, this tool can create the strongest password. It can generate passwords with 4-99 characters, satisfying most online form requirements. 

Moreover, the Kaspersky Password Manager generator supports lower and uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters. When generating passwords, you can incorporate all or just a specified group of characters.

Similar to other tools, this one has a password strength meter. But this function needs more work.

This meter labels weak passwords as “low” and moderately acceptable or good ones as “medium.” Carelessly, the meter indicator doesn’t even appear with a presumably strong, newly generated password. 

In general, the Kaspersky Password Manager generator classifies passwords with less than eight characters as “low” or “medium.”

However, it’s known to consider some passwords containing only upper or lowercase letters stronger than others with alphanumeric characters.

To say the least, such logic is strange. Supposedly, passwords with a mixed bag of characters are more difficult to deduct than uniformed ones. 

Password Check

Like most reliable password security apps, Kaspersky Password Manager has a checker.

Running a Kaspersky password check can illustrate weak and duplicate logins. On top of that, it counts the number of credentials it hasn’t yet verified.

Plus, this password protector can search a database of compromised credentials and reveal whether any of your login details have or have not been hacked.

Knowing this, you can quickly change your leaked or stolen passwords and restore your privacy and security accordingly.

With these capabilities, you can easily gain insight into the security level of all of your passwords at a glance.

Autosave and Autofill

Kaspersky Password Manager detects unsaved login details and offers to store them even when locked.

Also, Kaspersky Password Manager can autofill empty fields. This common capability doesn’t make this password keeper particularly special, but it is really good at it. 

The Windows version of this password manager gives you control over what types of data to autosave and autofill. You can enable it for your passwords, bank card details, or addresses. You can customize it to include all, some, or none of these data categories.

If you wish, you can set Kaspersky Password Manager for Android to not autofill data at all. You activate or deactivate this feature for browsers and/or mobile apps as you please.

Site Blacklisting

If you want, you can instruct this password saver to ignore certain sites. This capability is available on Kaspersky Password Manager for Windows.

If you exercise this option, Kaspersky Password Manager won’t autofill or autosave data on your specified sites.

Unlimited Storage

This product has no password storage cap.

From a financial point of view, this product is extremely cost-effective. With it, you can infinitely store and secure data without ever having to upgrade your subscription.

Unlimited Devices

This password protector allows you to access your account on all of your devices. It doesn’t matter if you have a Kaspersky Password Manager premium or free license. 

Document Scanning

Found on Kaspersky Password Manager for Android, this new feature turns your smartphone into a doc scanner.

Basically, it digitizes your paper documents and securely saves their PDF copies to the cloud.

What’s more, its usefulness isn’t limited to text in black and white. In practice, you can take photos of anything you want and immediately store them in this vault.

Sort Customization

If you like to display your data from A to Z, you’ll love this option.

You’re free to manually change anything anytime. And you can reset your custom sort settings and arrange your entries alphabetically with a click of a button.

Automatic Data Synchronization

Are all Kaspersky Password Manager entries in sync at all times?  

The answer is yes.

There might be a split-second delay, but it’s insignificant.

Any change you make in this cloud password manager triggers synchronization across all of your connected devices. So, everything happens automatically. No need to push any button or to drag and drop any file or folder.

Take note, not all entries appear on the Kaspersky Password Manager Chrome extension. It displays only site-related credentials, debit card details, and addresses.

Hotkey Search

Using the Windows app of this password manager, you can easily pull your credentials from anywhere with a few strokes of your keyboard.

You can conveniently browse through your list of login details with the arrow keys. Or when using a shortcut key, you can instantly paste a username or a password to your chosen field.

Backup

As a form of password protection, you can back up your data anytime and as many times as wanted. This option is helpful when you lose access to your vault or if you think it’s been compromised.

Apps And Extensions

There are native Kaspersky Password Manager mobile and desktop apps for the following operating systems:

• Windows
• macOS
• Android
• iOS
• iPadOS
  

In addition, I found downloadable Firefox, Chrome, and Edge extensions. This password locker supports Safari, Opera, and Yandex Browser too.

Notwithstanding minor feature differences, Kaspersky Password Manager for Android and Windows practically have the same functionality.

Regarding the Kaspersky Password Manager Chrome extension, it can only save new logins, generate passwords, and autofill web forms.

As such, it's fairly featureless and you still need the desktop app to upload docs, draft notes, adjust your account’s settings, etc.

Security

First off, this password keeper follows the zero-knowledge model. Even its developers can’t access what you store, for the encryption and decryption processes happen on your device.

Kaspersky Password Manager can pull this off by obscuring your data with brute force–resistant AES-256.

If you don’t want to keep typing in your main password, you can switch to biometric authentication instead. On your mobile devices, you can choose to unlock your account with your fingerprint or through facial recognition.

To keep keyloggers at bay, adding another step into the account verification process would work. Thankfully, Kaspersky Password Manager supports two-factor authentication, which can be set up in My Kaspersky. 

If you set up two-factor authentication, your password vault will be locked twice. The first lock requires your main password. And the second needs a one-time security code sent via a text message or a third-party authenticator app.

This security code can be extremely time-sensitive, and as such can be unusable in about 30 seconds. A great deterrent against hackers attempting to access your account.  

Lastly, vault lock and clipboard clearing were the other notable security features noticed when testing Kaspersky’s password security apps.

To prevent unauthorized app access after a period of inactivity, you can set vault lock to kick in automatically. Activating this function requires you to manually click its icon on the Kaspersky Password Manager Android and Windows apps.

To keep yourself from inadvertently pasting credentials somewhere else, use clipboard clearing.

This capability is available on Kaspersky Password Manager for Android and Windows. On your mobile devices, you can modify clipboard clearing’s waiting period or disable it completely.

Ease of Use and Interface

All versions tested had consistently clean and intuitive interfaces. It won’t take you long to easily navigate them. 

In terms of customization, it’s flexible enough to suit most personal preferences.

For instance, the Kaspersky Password Manager Android app has light and dark modes. And it lets you use your device’s theme settings too.

Even more, Kaspersky empowers you to opt-out of its notifications and halt its data logging activity.

The best part is that this software automatically saves your new settings. The absence of a confirmation window provides a seamless experience.

Speaking of automation, installing the Kaspersky Password Manager extension for Firefox instantly disables your browser’s built-in password saver.

Support

Kaspersky has a complete set of customer support channels as well as self-service options.

On paper, its English-speaking live chat, email, phone, and remote assistance representatives are available around the clock.

However, its automated email reply said that its business hours for technical support vary by region.

Upon testing Kaspersky’s live chat support, I was disappointed that I couldn’t immediately speak with an agent. Instead of launching a chatbox, its site initially prompted me to create a support ticket.

There seemed to be no avoiding this step, for it’s the only means to receive an incident number. Apparently, speaking to a chat agent requires this number.

Using my incident number, I was able to talk with two chat reps on different days. Both were helpful, knowledgeable, responsive, and polite. Kaspersky’s help desk also replied to my email, but only after the first chat rep resolved my issue.

If you want to use Kaspersky’s self-help options, the search bar is your friend.

All of the company’s resources for its various products are in one place. So, typing in what you’re looking for may be more convenient for you than reviewing numerous pages.

Support Options

If you want VIP treatment, consider Kaspersky’s Expert Installation and Set-Up Service, and the Premium Support plans. Either option smartly complements this multi-platform password manager.

Expert Installation and Set-Up Service is applicable to one Windows or macOS device only. Except during major holidays, it’s redeemable any time, any day.

Premium Support, on the other hand, is a complete package. It includes:

• • Round-the-clock priority access to a support agent via chat or phone
  • One-click access to a chat support agent

• Unlimited remote assistance

• • Professional virus and spyware removal

• Expert Installation and Set-Up Service

• Health check on one Windows or macOS device

Normally, Kaspersky’s Expert Installation and Set-Up Service and Premium Support cost $19.99 and $39.99, respectively.

Kaspersky Password Manager Free vs Premium

The feature sets of Kaspersky Password Manager free and premium licenses are almost identical. The only exception is password and document storage.

Unless you buy a Kaspersky Password Manager premium subscription, you may only save up to 15 logins and docs.

Kaspersky Password Manager vs LastPass

Kaspersky Password Manager and LastPass both use AES-256 and PBKDF2 to uphold the zero-knowledge principle.

Both password manager solutions permit unlimited storage, autosave logins and autofill web-form fields, as well as automatic data synchronization across all connected devices.

Likewise, they have password generators and security dashboards, can detect compromised credentials and can store docs and notes. Both password managers also support multi-factor authentication.

What sets LastPass apart from Kaspersky Password Manager are the emergency access and file-sharing features.

Using LastPass’s password inheritance function, you can appoint someone as your vault’s manager if something were to happen to you.

With its cross-platform password manager you can securely share your credentials with other people. But you have to accept a 1-GB storage limit.

Granted, you must pay the full Kaspersky Password Manager premium price to have infinite storage of your credentials and docs. But its free version is still arguably better than LastPass’s.

Without even a paid subscription, you can install Kaspersky’s free password protector on unlimited devices and enjoy no functionality restrictions.

LastPass, on the other hand, deprives its free license holders of password checking and sharing, file storage, and emergency access. Unless you upgrade to a premium plan, you may only use LastPass on either desktop browsers or mobile devices.

Additionally, Kaspersky Password Manager has the edge in the customer support department.

Kaspersky Password Manager has more diverse customer care options, whereas LastPass extends priority support via email at best.

In the grand scheme of things, Kaspersky Password Manager’s subscription and bundles bring more bang for your buck.

LastPass’s individuals, families, teams, and small businesses plans can be more affordable. But Kaspersky’s bundles are usually more valuable.

The Kaspersky Password Manager free trial is 16 days shorter than LastPass’s 30-day test drive. But Kaspersky grants refunds. In contrast, LastPass doesn’t.

Pricing

So, how much does Kaspersky Password Manager cost?

If you want to upgrade your free license for this cloud password manager, you can only buy an annual subscription. Since there are no other billing options, you have to pay $14.99 up front, which translates to $1.25 a month.

For some reason, the company advertises this Kaspersky Password Manager premium price as an introductory offer for new customers. I received confirmation that it’s actually the original purchase price, barring any future discount.

By default, this annual subscription is set to auto-renew. You can opt out of this option before checking out. 

If you don’t want to pay with a major credit card, you can instead use PayPal.

Purchasing a license of this password management software directly from the Kaspersky site entitles you to a 30-day money-back guarantee. But the Kaspersky Password Manager premium version is unavailable for trial use.

Take note, if you order it on Google Play, you can take advantage of a Kaspersky Password Manager free trial for 14 days.

What’s the catch?

To take advantage of this free trial, you must set up a payment method beforehand which will only be charged after the trial period finishes. You may though unsubscribe in advance to cancel the scheduled payment without cutting short your free trial.

Kaspersky Password Manager Bundles

To further increase your cybersecurity, you can pair this multi-platform password manager with other Kaspersky products.

I found three packages for personal use and one for commercial that include it:

• Kaspersky Total Security
• Kaspersky Security Cloud Personal
• Kaspersky Security Cloud Family
• Kaspersky Small Office Security

The nitty-gritty of these bundles is outside the scope of this Kaspersky Password Manager review. So if considering scaling up your personal or small business security capabilities, inclusive of password management software - you can subscribe monthly to these bundles for as low as $3.75 and as high as $50.

All are refundable within 30 days.

Verdict

Kaspersky Password Manager has made our roundup of the best password management solutions on the market. However, it doesn’t compare to the industry’s widely regarded elite.

This cross-platform password manager delivers the essentials really well. Its automatic data synchronization is remarkable, its compromised password monitoring helpful, and its document scanning ability convenient.

This password keeper’s free version is workable, especially since it has no device connection cap. But its data storage limit is a symptom of a bigger problem, a lack of advanced capabilities.

Without secure data sharing, password vault inheritance, and travel mode functions, its premium subscription is far from enticing. As a result, its free version’s appeal also suffers.

If you’re not a fan of those advanced features, strongly consider Kaspersky Password Manager. But if you like a product with enhanced functionality, you may want to look elsewhere.