Advanced Password Manager Review

Cybersecurity experts all over the world recommend using different passwords for each new service that you’re signed up on – each stronger than the last.

Luckily, you don’t need to memorize and remember these passwords anymore. You can harness the digital mediums and make use of a password manager that’ll keep your extra-strong passwords handy and secure.

This review focuses on Advanced Password Manager, a name you might have already heard.
To summarize its features, let’s start off with a comparison against another big name: Advanced Password Manager vs LastPass.

As you can see, for software that takes barely 20 seconds to install and comes at a cost cheaper than a week’s worth of coffee, Advanced Password Manager stacks up well against a top name.

Pros and cons of Advanced Password Manager

Advanced Password Manager has been around for quite a while now, using government-level Microsoft technology to protect your identity. Simply choose a master password to access the rest of your passwords, and the app will do the rest for you: the passwords are generated randomly at your specification.

Not only does Advanced Password Manager do what the name suggests – managing passwords – but it also lives up to the “Advanced” part of it. Essentially, Advanced Password Manager is like a two-in-one solution for most privacy problems. While keeping your master passwords secure and on hand whenever you’d need them, it also continually scans your PC for threats.

Advanced Password Manager will scour your system for any traces of telephone numbers, credit card numbers and statements, and other identity traces that it can then link to personally identifying information and let you know, with an option to keep or remove the dangerous material or to encrypt and protect it on their own cloud-based servers. You can even save your credit card details straight to the app and make online purchases quicker and more secure.
One major flaw, however, is the lack of 2FA (two-factor authentication) which is more or less the norm now for security when it comes to passwords.

There’s also the clunky design and popups within the software itself, letting you know they offer lifetime support and toll-free phone chat (which in itself is definitely a “pro”, however).

Advanced Password Manager security features

Unfortunately, a quick Google will reveal that many people (mistakenly) think of Advanced Password Manager as some sort of malware or scam.

This is far from the case, however, since it’s essentially the company’s marketing schemes that seem to be causing this issue: that being said, healthy skepticism is advised, but our research has shown that Advanced Password Manager runs a “free version” that will simply trace your device for traces of privacy issues, but to clean them you’d need to purchase the full version.
Of course, this does not at all mean that the software itself is dangerous to use or is holding any of your data or information hostage like ransomware is known to do. The website itself states that downloading the software entitles you to a “Free Scan. Purchase is required to use all functions.”

It’s a transparent situation, and one that indicates dodgy marketing and an alarmist approach to cybersecurity, but regardless, doesn’t necessarily classify the software itself as being a virus.
In fact, there are few other tools out there on the market that will go to the extent that Advanced Password Manager does with its focus on deep cleaning and rooting out any potential threats to your privacy from within your own computer. You can keep your personal information in its own secure vault instead of on your own (essentially unsecured) computer network which is susceptible to attack (unless, of course, you use a VPN (Virtual Private Network)).

Multiplatform support

Advanced Password Manager was made to maximize your ease: as such, it doesn’t demand much from you. It’s available on all system architectures running Windows XP and above, and Mac 10.8 and above.

The only restriction is when it comes to the browsers:

• Internet Explorer must be upgraded to Version 11
• Microsoft Edge must be Version 40 or higher
• Firefox and Google Chrome must be stable releases and not beta versions.

Advanced Password Manager is virtually the same in terms of design across all the available browser extensions.

• MS Edge: like for all the different browsers, you can simply download the add-on from the relevant store (in this case, the Microsoft store). The website itself has buttons that allow you to install the extensions at a click.
• Internet Explorer: the interface is the same across all the browsers, and Internet Explorer is no exception. You can access all the features from a drop-down style menu of tabs set out in neat, square boxes after installing the add-on from the setup of the software itself.
• Google Chrome: the software operates as a separate page or tab if you need to look at all your saved profiles and information at a glance. You can add notes, sync browsers, play with the Settings, and even exclude sites from the system if you want.
• Firefox: while everything else remains the same, there is an issue that arises of deleted traces returning to Firefox. To get around this, simply go to the Options of your signed-in profile or account in Mozilla Firefox and turn off auto-sync.

The software itself also prompts you to download the browser add-ons for all the browsers it finds on your system during the sign-up and installation process, which is a very useful touch.

Pricing

Lastly, a word on the pricing.

Advanced Password Manager only has one payment plan: $20.00, billed every six months until you decide to cancel your subscription. You can pay via PayPal and all major credit cards.

While there are cheaper apps available, few of them do what Advanced Password Manager can do for you, as previously stated. If you feel like your personal needs align with the software, then make use of the instant activation and try it out: there’s a no-questions-asked 30-day money back guarantee that’s got you covered.