PSWD vs GmPasswords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PSWD
Generate strong, random passwords with customizable options. This app offers phonetic password generation, interval separators, and real-time strength analysis. It prioritizes user privacy by operating entirely locally on your device.
- Generates passwords up to 128 characters
- Customizable character combinations
- Phonetic password generation
- Password presets and iCloud sync
- Real-time entropy and strength calculation
- Share or copy passwords with one tap
- Shortcuts app integration
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PSWD is a comprehensive strong password generator for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Features of PSWD: • Four generation modes: random characters, pronounceable passwords that follow a consonant–vowel pattern, passphrases built from dictionary words, and dice for games • Word passphrases in nine languages — English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese and a hand-crafted Turkish list — mix several at once, or import your own word list synced through iCloud • Remove diacritics from a passphrase for sites that only accept plain ASCII letters • Passwords up to 128 characters, one or many at a time • Minimum or exact counts per character class — uppercase, lowercase, digits, symbols, and your own custom set • Exclude specific characters, or skip ambiguous look-alikes like 0 O o 1 l I • Group characters with a separator at regular intervals for readability • Entropy and strength calculated live as you configure • Save presets and load them anywhere — they sync between your devices through iCloud • Generate passwords from the Shortcuts app without opening PSWD • On the Mac: a menu bar panel, a system-wide global shortcut that generates and copies in one press, open at login, and an optional hidden Dock icon • On iPhone and iPad: a layout made for each device, with a choice of accent colors • Full VoiceOver support PSWD works completely locally on your device. It does not collect, store or transmit anything — not the settings you enter, not the passwords it generates. It is a sandboxed app that takes your privacy seriously.
GmPasswords
Generate strong, unique passwords using a pattern-based approach. This tool helps create secure credentials for all your online accounts, ensuring better digital security.
- Pattern-based password generation
- Secure credential creation
- Enhanced digital security
- User-friendly interface
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GmPasswords is a pattern based password generator
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GmPasswords at none against PSWD's 4. GmPasswords also leads on iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.0). PSWD's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (154 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PSWD sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. GmPasswords asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for PSWD against 5.0 for GmPasswords. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PSWD has 154 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of PSWD's written reviews are positive against 100% of GmPasswords's.
PSWD ships an update monthly, GmPasswords every 5 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | PSWD | GmPasswords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (154 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 154 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kerem Erkan | George Mizzi |
Customer experience
PSWD
GmPasswords
Bugs and requests
PSWD
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Auto-launch option when logging in
- Auto font matching when copy and pasting
- Diceware password generation method
- Display generated passwords when multiple are created
- Reset button for password settings
GmPasswords
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PSWD
- Small cup of tea$0.99
- Large cup of tea$1.99
- Teapot!$3.99
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- Samovar!!$4.99
GmPasswords
No in-app purchases









