Strongbox Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.7% of reviews
Neutral4.2% of reviews
Negative experience12.0% of reviews

~ Based on 565 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Strongbox

Is Strongbox Safe?

Strongbox - Password Manager appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Strongbox is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 4,065 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 4,065 App Store ratings for Strongbox.

Is Strongbox Legit?

Strongbox - Password Manager appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Strongbox is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

totes ‘some

the best, hands down
bar none

Easy to use, wish it worked on Windows

This app is great, and fits the Apple ecosystem perfectly. I would love to see this application available on Windows, as well!.

They take away things you’ve paid for and try to sell them to you at a higher price

I’ve purchased a “lifetime” upgrade to Pro in 2019. My app no longer has pro features and they’re asking for $100. I loved this app but I will be working on finding a replacement

MacOS version crashes. Formerly excellent support is gone

MacOS version crashes with the last two updates (1.65.2). No response from support. Fortunately, iOS version still works, but for how long?

Can’t subscribe

Purchase fails. Cannot connect, and fails on every retry.

Seriously lacking security or safety of main audience.

Why are we not able to copy/paste the passwords it generates onto different platform. This is an inconvenience and a serious flaw. I tried copying/pasting the generated password onto a texting app, and it wouldn’t let me. This honestly increases the risks victims escaping violence is expose to. Please build in a multi factor authentication ASAP and actual account security methods. Victims die every single day as a result of violent outbursts from abusers gaining unauthorized access to accounts and seeing their victims trying to escape or survivor their abuse. :/
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Consistently impressed

I've used this as my KeePass client for years now and I'm always impressed at how much a single¹ dev is able to do. Enhancements are frequent snd substantial. Bugs are rare, non-catastrophic, and rapidly fixed. WELL worth the price.

(I'm sure the dev is kicking himself for not creating a subscription model and plans to switch to that ASAP but until then this might be the highest value app on here)

¹I saw a video of an interview circa-2018 (?) with the founder of whatever company makes this (Phoebe?) and he said the company is only him.
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Fantastic!

I love to support independent developers and was told about Strongbox (after using 1Password for many years) and I love it. It performs exactly as it should and I think I’ve found my new default password manager. Keep up the good work, all!

Deleted

Worst application for keepass files. Every fcn day this app show me advertisment when i opened this app
Im delete this app and rn im use keepass and keeforge

good password manager

pretty easy to use and intuitive

The future's uncertain and the end is always near

Just over a year ago I paid $40.99 for a “lifetime” license for the “Pro” version of this app. I’ve been very happy with this purchase but I am now concerned about it’s deprecation.

10 months ago the developer, Phoebe code Limited, released a new branch called “Strongbox Pro (Outright Purchase for Business)” and renamed the original app to “Strongbox - Keepass & PwSafe (The Premium KeePass Solution)”. Then three months ago released another branch called “Strongbox Zero (Local Only Database)”.

My concern is this: The current release for the original app is now at 1.54.3 and the 2 branch versions are at 1.54.5 . Seeing that updates are trailing for this, the original product, and not for the newer branches is setting off a “Sunset Version” alarm in my mind.

I will leave this review at three stars for now and will update based upon the developers response (or lack thereof).
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very bad

How dare you guys to charge people such a high price for this rubbish app. even need to pay for downloading icons, what the heck! And Real bad ui

Best KeePass Alternative

This feels like the best version of a KeePass alternative on the Mac. I tried the others and this was the one that was best overall package.

Capable app

Capable app with well designed UI although the free version spams with self promotion and the pro version is too expensive if you don’t need any of the advanced features. Seems to have lost its ability to read my files in Dropbox via files - was working great now it’s got some weirdly cached copy after an iOS upgrade
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Almost Awesome

Checks all the boxes for an off-cloud password-manager which synchronizes between devices (all offline on local network). Would have rated it 5 stars EXCEPT it has this very irritating issue where it constantly loses track that I’ve purchased the Pro version (required for syncing) and refuses to sync. Restoring the license always fails on first try. Fortunately, it works on second try. But I’m growing weary of telling it over and over and over that I have a Pro License when it forgets and refuses to sync.
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Продолбало мой пароль

Точно помню, как вбил, по итогу — ничего нет. Спасибо. Либо не смогло сохранить, либо такой ux, что решило, что можно молча не сохранить явно вбитый пароль

All you need!

This is an amazing password manager, it works exactly like Keepass, but bringing more features up it sleeve and thanks to it minimalist design it’s such an ease to navigate through the app. Especially once you categorise your passwords.

Nagware

Constant nags. New version forces you to sign up for a trial in order to activate on first install. Keepassium is less trash.

3 years good so far

No issues, syncs well between devices

Please add GPG key storage

Terrific app