![]() ![]() Now perhaps I'm old fashioned, but I still consider Dashlane first and foremost a software company. There is no reason given why a web app should be of a higher quality than a desktop app except that maintaining Windows and macOS desktop apps take more developer resources. Quality? That is entirely up to Dashlane. Let's have a look at the reasons given and see how they stack up: "Highest quality and most secure experience" The App is dead, long live the appĭashlane are the first major password manager to discontinue support for their desktop apps (due June 2021) and have announced this in their web-first post and a follow up on security considerations. Bitwarden and Keeper meanwhile had already gone with Electron apps. This has been brewing for some time with LastPass replacing their old desktop apps with web app versions a year ago. Rather than only offering native apps (let's not talk about Java or Qt) developers now have an option to use web technologies to offer cross-platform apps on Windows, Mac and Linux desktops. Browsers are doing their best to take over the world and if they don't immediately succeed, they'll park their JavaScript, CSS, HTML tanks on your desktop to keep the natives in check. eventually even mobile caught up and allowed autofill on your phone.įast forward to today and apps have changed. The world was happy and simple and worked. You still ran your password manager 'on the desktop' even if it appeared as a background service. There was a lot of copy and pasting until browser extensions were added which allowed you to autofill (and auto-save).Īt this point it is useful to point out that browser extensions both extend the browser and extend the password manager, giving an interface between them. That was all fine but became less and less convenient as services began to move to websites rather than programs. ![]() Your password manager (if you had one in those days) would run on the desktop and provide you with the passwords you had saved in it. what's this all about?Ģ0 years ago, you had a Windows, Mac or Linux computer and would download an app and run it. Web apps, websites, extensions, desktop apps, native apps, mobile apps. Removing desktop apps is a step backwards. Password managers should ensure that they offer passwords securely where, when and how the user needs them. Tl dr Dashlane retiring their desktop apps may make sense for a consumer audience, but all their competitors still offer desktop apps (and command-line tools). ![]()
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