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Enpass vs. RoboForm: Battle of the Budget-Friendly Password Managers

RoboForm is inexpensive and beginner-friendly, while Enpass offers diverse storage and security settings. After putting both password managers through their paces, I can tell you which app is the best bet for you.

 & Kim Key Senior Writer, Security

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RoboForm is affordable, excels at core password management tasks, and includes lots of helpful tips, making it an excellent password manager for newbies.

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Enpass is an easy-to-use password manager that shifts responsibility for credential security to the customer by offering local and third-party cloud storage options.


Price: Affordable Plans With Different Value Trade-Offs

When it comes to monthly pricing, RoboForm ($2.49 per month) is more expensive than Enpass ($1.19 per month). Both services also provide free tiers, though each comes with notable restrictions. Enpass offers a fully free desktop application that allows unlimited local password storage, while its free mobile version is limited to 10 logins and doesn't sync with the desktop app. RoboForm also has a free plan, but like Enpass, it restricts use to a single device.

Looking at yearly pricing, both options remain quite affordable. RoboForm's Premium subscription costs $29.88 per year, compared with Enpass's Individual plan at $23.99 per year.

The family plan options are where a winner emerges. A RoboForm Family subscription costs $47.75 annually and includes access for five accounts, data breach monitoring, emergency access, local-only mode, and priority support. Enpass's Family Plan is a little more expensive at $47.99 annually and includes support for up to six accounts, website breach alerts, and email and forum support. Since RoboForm offers more features for family accounts for a little less money, it wins this round by a hair.

Winner: RoboForm


Data Storage Options: Control vs. Convenience

We trust companies with tons of incredibly private data online. To stave off data breach concerns, we recommend password managers that offer diverse vault storage options.

Both companies let customers store their credentials locally on their devices, which is ideal. RoboForm lets you choose to keep your data on the company's cloud servers or on your device or computer. To enable local storage, turn off the Automatic Sync feature in the RoboForm app.

Enpass takes the notion a step further, which is why it wins this round. With Enpass, you only have two options: Store your passwords locally on your device or keep them in a third-party cloud storage account. This means that if you want to use the password manager app on multiple devices, you will need to sync your credentials using a third-party cloud service, such as Google Drive, or a shared Wi-Fi connection.

Winner: Enpass


Ease of Use and Performance: Setup and Daily Experience

The Enpass desktop app is easy to navigate, although it may not be very helpful for people who don't frequently use desktop apps, as it cannot autofill passwords in web browsers. That said, you should definitely use the browser extensions. I didn't have trouble capturing and storing existing logins in my vault, and it was also easy to create new ones using them. Unfortunately, auto-filling stored data in web forms using the Chrome browser extension was hit-or-miss during the latest evaluation.

To compare, RoboForm offers beginner-friendly apps, and the form-filling functionality was smooth during my last test. That said, you can't store file attachments in your RoboForm vault, which may or may not be a drawback for you. RoboForm passed all of the form-filling tests with flying colors, so it wins this category handily.

Winner: RoboForm


Business Plans: Pricing and Enterprise Features

An Enpass Business Plan costs $23.88 per year, per user. There's also an Enterprise Plan for larger companies. Business users can store data locally on their devices, with an option to use cloud storage. Key highlights include access recovery, vault sharing, complimentary family plans for all employees, custom branding options, and automatic user provisioning via SCIM from trusted platforms like Azure AD and Okta. All business accounts include integration with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

RoboForm's Business edition is significantly more expensive at $39.96 per year per user. The plan includes activity logs, dark web monitoring and alerts, password hygiene reports, password sharing, role-based access control, single sign-on (SSO) integration, customizable security policies, and other business-focused features. RoboForm also offers enterprise-level password management for large businesses.

Winner: Enpass


Extra Security Features: Bonus Tools and Recovery Options

Both apps offer data breach report monitoring for paid accounts, which is excellent. RoboForm also includes emergency access options for paid accounts, which let you designate someone to inherit access to your accounts when you die. Ensuring that your accounts are secure and accessible when you're incapacitated is a major feature that people need when planning their digital legacies, and it's enough to give RoboForm the win for this category.

Though Enpass lacks emergency access options, it offers interesting security features. For example, the Hide Sensitive option in the Security settings menu will obscure your password fields, protecting you from anyone looking over your shoulder. There's also the Erase Everything option, which clears your vault, leaving your passwords safe and secure in your own third-party cloud storage account, or on a different device.

Winner: RoboForm

About Our Expert

Kim Key

Kim Key

Senior Writer, Security

My Experience

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals about staying safe on the internet. Before joining PCMag, I wrote about tech and video games for CNN, Fanbyte, Mashable, The New York Times, and TechRadar. I also worked at CNN International, where I did field producing and reporting on sports that are popular with worldwide audiences.

In addition to the categories below, I exclusively cover ad blockers, authenticator apps, hardware security keys, and private messaging apps.

The Technology I Use

I like testing new software for work, but I'm less "plugged in" to the internet than I used to be. I tend to read app privacy policies to see what kind of data companies collect, and as a result of those findings, I don't use many mobile apps. In a similar vein, I was an early adopter of many social media platforms, but now I’m just an infrequent Reddit lurker.

I'm a gear junkie. I split my work time between a 2021 Apple MacBook Pro and a Lenovo ThinkPad. I shoot most of my videos for PCMag using a Canon M50, a Sony A7iii, and a Sony a6000. I edit videos using Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro.

I write all of my words for PCMag either in the MS Notepad app on my ThinkPad or the Notes app on my iPhone 12 mini. If I'm traveling and working, I use my iPad to write short articles or take notes.

My dad built me my first computer sometime in the late '90s, and I used it for reading Encyclopedia Britannica and writing Sailor Moon fan fiction. My first phone was the ubiquitous Nokia candy bar.

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