Password Pad Lite App Reviews

I LOVE IT!!!!

It’s so perfect, exactly what I was looking for. I save the documents under a folder on my desktop and all documents are secure with passwords. I am using this app to have a personal journal on my computer and it exceeds my expectations. THANK YOU!!!

Does What It Says

Nothing more and nothing less. Great notepad for those notes that you don’t want to carry around on every device or share with every account. It’s private and locked away like I need it. Thank you. Had no problems getting it to lock and stay locked.

Confused??

I downloaded the app on my mac and realized that if i exit out of the app And then like 5 min later i click to reopen it doesn’t require my password. I personally think that it would be smarter if evrytime someone exits out of the app it locks automatically and requires the password. Thank You

Good Stuff

Great in keeping my files protected. Keep up the good work!

Great for keeping info unseen by the kids

This is a basic text editor that gives you the ability to password protect the file. If you need hard core encryption... you might want something more robust... but for everyday... around the house use to keep your kids from seeing things... this works great. I had a question about the product... and got a prompt answer from the developer... it turned out the issue was mine and not the software. It's everything I needed

Obsolete encryption in both free and paid versions; Apple provides far better alternatives for free

Password Pad Lite uses XOR encryption, which has been obsolete for the better part of 100 years. It makes no sense to use XOR encryption, because one might assume that the data has actually been encrypted. Password Pad “Pro” uses DES encryption, which was replaced approximately 10 years ago by the AES. Anyone wishing to see the history of DES and AES can look up the Wikipedia entry of the Advanced Encryption Standard. 256bit AES is far more secure than any implementation of the DES (including 3DES). It makes absolutely no sense to purchase software in 2011 that uses the obsolete DES for its encryption. Your Mac already provides two free alternatives for securely storing text files. In the application “Keychain Access”, you can edit Secure Notes. By default, these will be encrypted with your login password, although you can specify another password if you prefer. If you would like to include markup information (i.e., documents with fonts and size information), you can use the built-in application “Disk Utility” to create an encrypted partition and use the application TextEdit to create and edit documents on that partition. The 256-bit AES encrypted partitions from the free utility provide far stronger encryption strength than the obsolete 3DES could provide. For managing passwords for website logins, several components are needed: a generator for creating unique passwords for each site, an encrypted database to store the account/password pairs, mechanisms to synchronize/backup the database, and browser plugins to automate the entry of passwords in login forms. The Password Pad products do a poor job at solving this problem; programs like 1password and lastpass do provide a complete solution.

Awsome

So easy to use and secure enough to use for whatever you need for example passwords that you need to keep secure on your computer.

Good for protecting simple text documents.

I needed a simple text editor that I could password protect. It does that well, without a lot of fluff. Works for me.

pros and cons

PROS this app is really good if you just use it as a journal keeping or something else that is kind of trivial. Still, I reccomend using it on your own personal computer and just put files there that you want to keep away from your children. It doesnt use encryprtions, but it does use a password. CONS some people may be mistaken by this app. They believe that it actually uses encrytions and is a really safe place to store files. Well, its not. you would have to purchase the full version for that, and this is only the lite version. In all, even though the more comlicated the password is, the harder it is to hack, the use of this application is not reccomended on a public computer.

No.

This is worthless. The "encryption" can be cracked by a 3 yr. old. You're better off using Keychain.

No Encryption

Please do not use this program to protect passwords or other sensitive information! This product does not provide encryption -- it's "encrypts" things using the same technology as the Sunday Word Jumble in the newspaper. Even the non-Lite version provides relatively weak encryption -- 3DES. While 3DES is still in use for some empherial applications no one uses it for file storage because it's too weak by modern standards. There are better, free, easy-to-use encrpytion tools included in every version of OS X. Besides the obvious use of Apple's Keychain for passwords and other bits of text you can also create AES-encrypted disk images using Disk Utility and store any sort of file you like on them. Either those options are significantly more secure than even the paid version of this program, and probably easier to use as well.

Perfect!

This little Application is perfect for what I need it for. It keeps important documents on my computer saved with a locked password which is just what I wanted. No one else really uses my computer so it's not a big deal that the like version on uses a basic encyrption. Overall great job I like it!

Useful one

Good option for those who want to keep some information secret.

Interesting Come-on

It seems like a basic app, and its true use is to get you to purchase the high-powered encription app that will actually keep your data safe. I would like to se a safer encription at the fre level, and an app that synced with my iPhone with the same data.

Great App, so much potential

This is exactly what I needed to handle my passwords and notes, if there would be a way to edit the files from iPhone (and Windows... maybe) and have it all synced using dropbox it would be the perfect solution.

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