If you like Bitwarden but don’t like syncing or storage of passwords then LessPass is your choice. Browsers, mobile phones and the command line are supported platforms.
Reviewed by Marcus Holmberg
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
A genuinely different approach: instead of storing passwords it regenerates them on demand from your master password and the site, so there is no vault to sync, breach, or back up. That elegance is also the catch, and it is a sharp one: you cannot easily rotate a single leaked password, and sites with odd rules can break the model. Good for the specific person who hates storing and syncing secrets; most people will be better served by a normal vault like Bitwarden.
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LessPass license, in plain English
GPL-3.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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