Brain-based management is getting too exhausting, and isn't even fully possible with a larger quantity of online accounts.

Bitwarden

1Password

Keepass2

Seconding Bitwarden, have been with it since my previous one (Lastpass? I forget, it was red) moved most of the good functionality behind a paywall many years ago. 11/10 I usually pay for the subscription, I like their product and want them to have a little walkin' around money. But currently on the free tier which is perfectly fine (2 devices when I used pro for 3, but I hardly use my laptop.

Vaultwarden - self hosted bitwarden server that any bitwarden clients can connect to.

zx2c4 pass

I use several tools depending on context (keepass for work accounts, a custom hosted solution for everything else). But I also have a system for my passwords that allows me to figure out what it should be in case I forget. Most of my passwords follow a specific pattern that incorporates the platform and a series of characters.

This specific implementation is now out of date, as it's not really necessary (or at least it shouldn't be) to have all the special characters; length should be the critical property of a secure password, but unfortunately many, many sites still require a mix of upper/lower/numbers/special chars. Regardless, it should still be simple to come up with a way for you to know your passwords, without them all being the same.

Selfhosted Aliasvault

I stick to brain based. I have a system that makes it easy for me to remember which password is for where. Step one is to use passphrases instead of password. Obligatory reference: xkcd correct horse battery staple

Have this as my backup just in case bitwarden goes somewhere. I tried to run it as my daily but, it just doesn't feel nice for some reason.

Mostly with a mooltipass. I also save them in a keepass db that is only written to a thumb drive, for redundancies sake.

keepassxc

I'm an old man yelling at clouds but I don't trust any of the password storing technologies. I have a system of making/writing passwords and a save a short form of them on my pc. Without knowing a specific segment you'd never be able to guess what they were so the segment is the only thing I need to remember. Having to access accounts when not at home is a massive pain in the ass though lol

1Password, but planning to move to VaultWarden.

To further this, if you actually move over to any password manager please regenerate all of your duplicate passwords with something 20+ characters. It’s almost pointless to have a PW Manager if you’re using the same weak password everywhere.

Make a new strong password for your master password too; I’d recommend a phrase of four moderately long words like “BattleshipMonitorPaintingPrinter” and perhaps a little postit note doodle drawing to remember it until it’s hammered home.

Alternatively, writing down the master password somewhere secure, like in a safe, would also be good if you have to pass on important accounts to descendants.

I don't.

Self hosted vaultwarden

That's my reason for wanting to switch to a password manager. Everything gets some long random string that would be insane to type anyway. Or using passkeys, if supported, though I'll have to research how that works.

My biggest problem is backups. I like the method of Aegis authenticator. It just stores some number of past (encrypted) databases. Each change is a new file. This way rsync takes care of both backups and version control. If I accidentally rsync a corrupted file, it doesn't matter much. And I can verify them with Rhash, just like all files that don't change (like photos).

1Password family account with spouse, kids, and my parents. Vault management, ease of sharing, and remote management for my parents is nice, along with multiplatform for everything important, and the price feels quite reasonable at $1/user/month. No major security incidents ever, and I was pleased by their core service design whitepaper that I read many years ago. But as they’ve become increasingly corporate over the past several years I’ve felt like they care less and less about individual users, and the CEO’s recent pledge to Omarchy really pissed me off. So it’s been a great service for me but I don’t recommend it for new users unless they like nazis. I pay for a year at a time so I haven’t scrambled to migrate my family to a new solution quickly, but it sounds like Vaultwarden is most likely the way to go next.

Firefox remembers my passwords. For other things, text documents stored in a Veracrypt container

I have a notebook and an app called Password Generator from f-droid

Basically the same. But not stored in a computer

Post-its

Idk if this is the right choice but I write them down on a piece of paper and store that paper in my locked fireproof safe.

I use online bitwarden for unimportant accounts and offline keepassxc for important ones.

Not very user friendly, but not wrong either

A few years ago I set up KeepassXC using Syncthing temporarily to sync the database across all my devices. I fully expected to have to move to Nextcloud for database file management.

The KeepassXC / Syncthing combination has worked so well that I have no reason to change it. The databases are seamlessly synced across all devices (including my phone) without requiring any attention from me. Database issues due to multiple device use are almost nonexistent.

One note: For me Syncthing works much better with multiple devices using a star topology. When I initially set up a mesh configuration I had regular file sync issues. With a star topology they are very rare.

BitWarden and a self hosted VaultWarden

Fun part of that sollution is that you only need one app.

I moved away from Bitwarden because they removing values from their motto and some other shady stuff. I chose to go with AliasVault, it has a pretty nice alias email feature.

Vaultwarden

What do you use on a phone?

Remember the password to my email. Create account on site. Log in and remain logged in. When eventually logged out click forgot password. Log into email and click reset link.

Syncthing-fork from Fdroid.

There were some repository ownership questions a few months back that were ironed out. In addition, Fdroid vets apps far better than Google ever has so I'm comfortable with the app's security.

Oh, sorry, I meant the password manager. There's multiple KDBX compatible apps.

KeePass2Android. Recommended by KeypassXC.

Keepassxc/keepassdx, synced with syncthings/basicsync.

Using a headscale/tailscale setup so things stay synced even when i am not home.

iOS password manager.

nice try hax0r

Definitely the most secure!

pass: the standard unix password manager for tech-savvy people. It's dead simple: just a directory of GPG-encrypted files that you can sync across devices using git or other means. It has a CLI interface, an Android app, and a Firefox extension.

Proton Pass for me since I use their VPN.

Vaultwarden for selfhosting.

Piece of paper.

Same one on every site. But don’t worry it’s 10 characters instead of 8. And I tossed a bang at the end to throw off attackers.

Bitwarden

You also need a secondary service on your server if you want to keep them in sync.

I'm fairly sure you can self host Bitwarden, so it might be possible to have backups in a similar way

That's fair, but you've lost the ability to log access attempts for individual services, timeout sessions etc.

There are completely selfhost options for this

My dumbass reading through these comments: "keep ass... ehehehehe"