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Access all your passwords on any device

What you need: Bitwarden

Time required: 60 minutes

Bitwarden has taken the world by storm. The open-source password manager offers superb programs for Windows, tablets and phones, as well as extensions for the most popular browsers, and we’ve been recommending it for some time.

We recognise, however, that the prospect of setting up a new password manager isn’t something many people relish. That’s because for years most of us have been saving passwords in our browsers. It’s far easier to continue allowing your browser to fill in all your login details for you than to start again with an empty password manager, which can take months to learn all the passwords you use.

This is a very inefficient way to store your passwords, though. What if you save a password to Edge on your PC, for example, but you use Chrome on your Android device, or Safari on your iPhone? Your phone or tablet wouldn’t have access to any passwords saved on your PC, and vice versa. A password manager such as Bitwarden solves this problem by synchronising all your login details between every device, and even across

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