Password Geek

It’s always a good idea to keep an extra copy of important thing in a secure location, just in case something unexpected happens. The same can be said about account credentials, especially since it can get difficult to remember all of them. This is where applications like Password Geek come in handy, also letting you test the strength of your passwords.

Since it’s meant for personal use, portability is a major advantage, letting you carry the application and the account database with you on a thumb drive so no one steals it while you’re away. Portability makes sure the target PC’s health status remains intact, because registries don’t need to be modified for the application to work.

Every time you launch the application, you’re required to write down the master password, with the very first time it’s launched defining it, so be sure to remember your first attempt, because it can’t be changed afterwards.

The visual design of things might leave a bit more to be desired, because a lot of space is not used, and the general layout feels rough around the edges. Before everything else, you have the chance to test the strength of a password, with an indicator updating as you type it in the dedicated field.

With no relation to the strength indicator whatsoever, a separate section can be used as a vault to safely keep all your account credentials. The way this is done is in two separate columns, in which you write accounts and passwords on different roles, but with no actual connection. Although it can be ignored at first, it gets difficult to visually associate accounts and passwords in a crowded list this way.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Password Geek comes with good intentions, but is rough around the edges in its presentation of features, as well as visuals. There’s no password generator to help create secure keys, while the method of storing your account details can easily get frustrating.