Passchain

A password manager can help you in a number of ways, as it ensures you never forget your login credentials can also enables you to use very complex passwords that cannot be cracked easily.

There are many choices out there, and Passchain is a small, open-source alternative you might be interested in. It is quite simplistic in its design, but it offers some interesting features and is very easy to use.

As secure as they may be, web-based password managers don’t tend to inspire a lot of confidence, and many users prefer to rely on applications that only store data locally. Passchain certainly fits the bill, as it saves everything in a local database file encrypted using ChaCha20.

You can add all your accounts and store the information securely, protected with a master password that should be the only one you will need to remember. The application can be sent to the system tray, and it is also hidden automatically after a period of inactivity.

While there is some debate over which types of passwords are more difficult to crack, anything is better than using the same one for each account. Passchain can create passwords of any length using various character sets, and it even calculates their entropy.

Using a hotkey, you can copy credentials to the clipboard and even auto-type them in various fields. The key combination is customizable, as is the password and typer timeout.

In a nutshell, Passchain isn’t as powerful as more popular password managers, but many users may not find the additional features to be all that useful anyway.

This application provides you with the essentials, enabling you to store credentials securely and generate passwords, and it is very lightweight and easy to use. Naturally, the fact that it is open-source is also a big plus.