Total Password Review 2024 — How Good is it Really?

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In this Total Password review, we explore a popular password management solution that simplifies logging into our favorite apps and websites while giving us much-needed security against data breaches and other cybersecurity threats.

That said, while it’s popular, that doesn’t mean it’s the best solution for everyone. Read on to learn everything you need to know about our experience with its interface and features, its pricing, and how it compares to leading rivals.

What is Total Password?

A password manager is designed to generate complicated passwords for our accounts and store them in a secure, encrypted vault. Total Password does exactly this.

All too often, we become somewhat complacent about our passwords. That’s why people tend to opt for easy-to-remember passwords, which are sometimes used across multiple accounts.

This, however, opens the door to cyber criminals and a whole world of hurt — especially if they get their hands on your highly sensitive data, such as your banking credentials.

Consider this: According to stats from AAG, close to a billion emails were exposed in just one year, affecting one in five internet users.

Facebook parent Meta, meanwhile, found more than 400 malicious apps for iOS and Android that targeted mobile users to steal their Facebook log-in credentials in 2022 alone.

Using a password manager simply makes sense. And the leading password managers tend to offer other features, too, which we’ll delve into later in this review of Total Password.

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Is Total Password Safe to Use?

Its other offerings include Total Adblock, Total WebShield, Total Browser, and TotalAV, which has garnered much recognition as highly effective antivirus software.

For starters, Total Password uses zero-knowledge architecture—meaning that nobody (including Total Password employees) apart from you can access your data.

All passwords, data, and payment information are also highly encrypted and securely stored on Total Password to enable syncing across all your devices.

During our Total Password review, we found no evidence of data breaches, and negative reviews were predominantly about the pricing structure—we’ll cover this shortly.

Total Password’s Key Features

Total Password is packed with features, including a password generator, device syncing, breach alerts, remote logout, and autofill. Let’s take a closer look at the key ones on offer:

Accounts

This is where you’ll find a complete list of all the accounts Total Password has stored passwords for. The number of passwords you can secure in the vault is unlimited.

This is where you can also add an account and generate a password for it. You’ll find other handy options here, too. This includes:

Identities

This is particularly useful if you share accounts with a family member and want to set up different identities. It’s a straightforward process, and you can include a physical address, phone number, email address, and notes under each profile.

Generate Passwords

Remember, you want your passwords to be complicated. And in this age of cybersecurity concerns, your pet’s name plus your birthday simply doesn’t cut it in terms of password strength.

We were impressed with the options for this. You decide on the length of the password and whether it should include upper- and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation.

Here, size really does matter. The longer and more complicated the password, the better its entropy, which is a fancy way of saying ‘predictability’.

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Notes and Card Details

Like most password managers, it offers a section for notes, where you can securely store information such as your Wi-Fi password, bank account number, or passport details.

That information, like all passwords, is stored in the Total Password vault, meaning it is secure and confidential. Total Password also has an option to save and store your bank card information.

Again, those details are locked in the vault, so they’re secure.

This is particularly useful for online purchases. Once your card details are stored, Total Password lets you autofill the relevant fields on payment pages and platforms. This is convenient if you don’t have your card on hand at checkout.

Secure Me

Secure Me is a privacy feature for your browsing history. It provides a list of previous online sessions and allows you to delete certain aspects of each session.

It gives the following options — delete cookies and log out from all websites, delete download history, and delete bookmarks.

In our testing of Total Password, however, we noticed that some sessions were missing from the list, and the options for deleting files were duplicated. Hopefully, the software boffins at Total Password are working on this.

Security Report

The Security Report provides an overview of the security of all accounts that are protected by Total Password.

The security report displays the entropy (there’s that fancy word again) status of your master password and the number of weak, duplicated, or old passwords linked to your accounts.

There’s also an option to scan for leaked passwords. Total Password does this by checking your passwords against the haveibeenpwned list of over ten billion breached passwords.

The security report will also show you if two-factor authentication (2FA) for your Master Password is activated or disabled.

2FA is a great security feature that requires you to type in an additional unique security code after entering your password. It’s well worth considering for extra protection.

Settings

Head to Settings to personalize your Total Password account, including your preferred language, making Total Password your default manager, or disabling the log-in tab at startup.

You can sync your devices here, lock your vault with a PIN code, or log out after a predefined period of inactivity.

The Data section has four options — export or import data, manage blocked websites, and manage unique websites. This means you can export the details of the accounts protected by Total Password to an Excel doc or PDF.

You can also import data from another password manager or web browser.

You can also add the URLs of websites you want to block (with an on/off toggle once added). Another useful feature is the ability to manage unique websites. Say you have multiple accounts with the same username for one website.

Add those URLs here to ensure Total Password treats them as separate websites.

Total Password’s Pricing

Well, here’s the good news. Total Password is very affordable and competitively priced compared to other password managers. It has just one subscription option—annual.

However, there is a caveat, and it’s a rather large one. The first year of a subscription will cost just $1.99/month, but upon renewal, it increases to $9.90/month.

While this isn’t necessarily expensive, it is quite a jump. However, it inadvertently acts as a risk-free sign-up, especially as it offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Notably, it lacks a free trial and demo, and the pricing is higher than rivals like Keeper, for example. While it’s much cheaper than, say, 1Password, but again, only for the first year.

Total Password’s Interface

During our Total Password review, we found the interface clean and simple, making it easy to navigate. However, we would have preferred a standalone, web-based dashboard.

However, it bears repeating that the Total Password app is actually a browser extension.

Total Password can be installed on and used across multiple devices, operating systems, and browsers. For this review, we installed it on a desktop and an Android phone.

However, we found that the Android version had fewer settings options. It also lacked the Inactivity Lock and the option to manage blocked and unique websites.

As Total Password is a browser extension, it doesn’t have a web dashboard (which is a pity, if we’re honest).

You’ll need to click on the Total Password icon at the top of your browser to access a drop-down menu of features. Here’s a quick glimpse of what you can expect.

Its worth noting that if you run into trouble, Total Password offers decent customer support, with a help center for technical, account, and billing support.

Total Password vs Other Password Managers

When it comes to password managers, we’re spoiled for choice, but some are better than others. Here’s a brief rundown of how it compares to leading Total Password alternatives:

If you’re looking for a straightforward password manager with no bells and whistles, Total Password is the solution for you. It’s simple, and it does exactly what it’s intended to do.

Some of its competitors, however, offer more functionality, such as dark web scanning or visual analytics. It really boils down to what you’re looking for. For more, here’s a full guide on the market’s best password managers.

What Are Other Users Saying About Total Password?

After giving Total Password a proper workout, we wondered how other users feel about this particular password manager. So, we went to scour the interwebs. Oddly, there aren’t many reviews, but it is fairly new to the industry.

There have been some 10,000 downloads from the Google Play store, but not a rating or review in sight. We came across this one on Reddit, though.

Total Password has a bit more coverage on Trustpilot, with a trust score of 3.6, but just 13 user reviews. We looked to see what they had to say. Most were more than short and sweet.

We did, however, notice that the general user sentiment seems to veer largely towards its pricing setup. Starting at $23.80 for an annual subscription and then $119 thereafter is a bitter pill to swallow for most.

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Why You Can Trust Our Total Password Review

One of the many aspects of being a complete nerd is taking our tech reviews very seriously. While testing Total Password, we’ve searched for flaws and negatives among all the good bits. And we found them.

Judgmental much? Absolutely. We’ve not only tested Total Password extensively, from its password generator to its interface but also listened to what others have to say about it to ensure a holistic and completely unbiased review.

Of course, this isn’t our first rodeo, either. Through our other reviews of leading password managers, we know what to look for. We call it as we see it.

How to Use Total Password — A Step-By-Step Guide

We found installing the Total Password Chrome extension on a computer to be fairly straightforward. In this section, we’ll show you how to do it:

Step 1 — Download the Total Password Extension

Once you’ve signed up and paid for a Total Password subscription, you’ll be directed to a page prompting you to install the extension.

From there, you’ll be taken to the Chrome Web Store. Select Add To Chrome to install the Total Password Chrome extension on your device.

Step 2 — Set Up a Master Password

Once installed, you’ll be prompted to set up a Master Password. This password will control your access to Total Password.

Now, add the email address you used to set up your account, enter a password, and click confirm. Next, you’ll be shown the Recovery Key.

This guy is important — without it, you won’t be able to recover your data if you forget your Master Password.

Download the recovery key as a PDF (or copy it to the clipboard) and store it somewhere safe. This is very important, you really don’t want to lose it. Then select Finish Account Setup.

Step 3 — Add the Total Password Extension to Chrome

Remember, Total Password is not an app; it’s a browser extension. Now it’s time to activate it in Chrome. Total Password has clear instructions on how to do this.

Click on the pin to add it to the toolbar, and you’re ready to go. That little icon is essentially your access point to the dashboard.

Now, you can set up and see all the accounts that Total Password has created and stored passwords for, generate passwords, add notes, and store bank card details.

You can also secure your recent online sessions by deleting cookies and logging out of all websites, deleting the download history, or deleting bookmarks.

Next to the drop-down menu are shortcuts to your account, the password generator, securing a session, and a security report. The security report shows you if you have any weak, duplicated, or old passwords.

You can also enable Two-Factor Authentication here and check if any of your passwords have been leaked.

Step 4 — Use Total Password to Create and Save a Password

Now that Chrome is using the Total Password extension, it’s time to put it to work. We tried it out on an existing Instagram account.

After navigating to the Change Password section, you can create a new password by selecting the Total Password icon in the New Password field.

You decide how long the new password should be and whether it includes upper- and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation marks. The longer and more complicated the password, the better.

Thankfully, you won’t ever have to remember your super-complicated password – that’s the password manager’s job. Once you’ve saved the new password, Total Password will ask if you want to save it in its vault.

Select OK. You’ll be able to find it (and change it) under the Accounts section of the dashboard.

Now that we’ve changed the Instagram password, it’s time to log back in with the new password, which the manager will offer to autofill.

Final Thoughts

We’ve spent considerable time testing Total Password and were pretty impressed with it. It’s easy to use, and while it lacks some features, it does what it does really well.

From a security perspective, it also covers all the bases: for starters, it’s from the reputable company behind TotalAV, and it uses industry-leading AES 256 encryption.

It’s important to remember that Total Password is a browser extension and not a standalone app. So, it doesn’t have a web-based dashboard, which we’re not too crazy about.

That makes it a little more cumbersome than navigating a standard dashboard. It’s also a pity that Total Password doesn’t have a trial or demo option.

And the price increase after the first year of subscription leaves us a little cold, too. That aside, however, Total Password is a trustworthy password manager.

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