Norton Password Manager vs Safe Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Norton Password Manager
This app securely stores and manages your passwords across multiple devices. It offers features like one-tap autofill, encrypted storage with zero-knowledge encryption, and password strength assessment to enhance your online security.
- One-tap password autofill
- Zero-knowledge encryption
- Cross-device syncing
- Biometric unlock (Touch ID/Face ID)
- Password strength assessment
- Generate strong passwords
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Want a free, powerful password manager? Norton Password Manager is a single solution to help manage your unique passwords in multiple ways. Memorizing complex passwords with symbols, numbers, capital letters, and more, is difficult but using strong passwords is important to help keep your personal information secure. With Norton Password Manager, your information is encrypted, helping keep it secure, yet still available across your devices so you can access it anywhere. Best of all, it’s free!* Why Norton Password Manager • Passwords filled in a single tap When you log in to websites and apps, it’s a smoother, quicker, and more convenient experience. Your passwords are stored in an online vault, which can be used to auto fill online login information with a single tap.¹ • Encrypted With zero knowledge encryption and two-factor authentication, only you control access to your password vault–not even Norton can access it. These security measures help keep your data safer from cybercriminals and hacking attempts. • Free* Norton Password Manager is free and accessible to anyone and works on devices including computers, tablets, and phones. • Sync passwords¹ Your entire password vault can be synced and accessed across your devices. Your logins and credit card credentials can be auto filled. • Biometric unlock² There’s no need to even type in your vault password. Access your vault faster or recover your vault password³ using Apple’s Touch ID® or Face ID®. • Password Assessment Check if your passwords are strong and easily create new passwords or change weak passwords to strong ones that are more difficult to crack. Your information stays private even from us because it’s encrypted using zero-knowledge encryption before being stored in your cloud-based vault. Your passwords and other personal information can be even more secure by enabling two-factor authentication, plus you can use Apple’s Touch ID® or Face ID® so you can access your vault even faster. Creating and remembering complex passwords doesn’t have to be difficult. Norton Password Manager helps you safeguard your personal information by making recommendations to strengthen passwords, adding more security to your online, digital life. * With the free version of Norton Password Manager, we reserve the right to limit the number of entries (like passwords) at any time. This limitation won’t affect any existing entries in your vault. ¹ Requires your device to have an Internet/data plan and be turned on. ² Only available on iOS devices with Fingerprint Authentication or Touch ID/Face ID activated. ³ Vault Password Reset can only be initiated on an iOS smartphone. To work, your smartphone must have the Norton Password Manager mobile app installed, set up, and connected to your Norton account, plus the Biometric Authentication (fingerprint, or Touch ID/Face ID) activated, beforehand. PRIVACY POLICY Norton respects the privacy of our users and carefully safeguards personal data. For more information: https://www.norton.com/privacy
Safe Notes
Securely store and organize your thoughts, plans, and sensitive information with a password-protected notepad. Create text notes, checklists, add images and audio, and convert content to PDF for easy sharing. Access your data offline and enjoy automatic backups.
- Password protection
- Offline access
- Convert notes to PDF
- Add photos and audio
- Organize with tags
- To-do lists
- Automatic backup
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Safe Notes is a password-protected notepad that's safe, smart, easy to use and free! Safe Notes gives you a complete and simple notepad to create text notes and checklists. It saves your inspirations, plans, ideas, contacts, passwords, sensitive information, lists or anything you want to organize or remember and keep them private and yet available. You can use Safe Notes as a digital notebook or diary and add pictures, taking them with camera or your gallery. You can keep notes of lectures, business meetings and interviews or if you need quickly transfer URLs, code snippets and email addresses. It is easy to create reminders and to organize data in lists. With the checklist you can plan your day with to do list, make tasks list and tick the completed ones. Safe Notes is intuitive and versatile. You can organise notes using tags to manage your schedules and notes. You can add title to your notes, instead of just the first line of the note and convert text into a checkbox list or vice versa. Safe Notes now allows you to convert your notes and lists to PDF. You can then normally view, store, transfer or share your PDF files. Safe Notes provides safe access using a simple pin number. It stores all your data on the device instead of uploading your personal information on external database. Easy to use with a clean interface, it’s the app that you’re missing on your phone and it is free. Download Safe Notes now. Key features: * Password protection. Protect your notes and checklist with password and lock the whole notepad app with your PIN. * Offline access. Access your notes even without internet connection. * Autosave. The notepad will save your notes automatically while you edit them. * Use your Fingerprint to quickly unlock the app. * Convert your notes and images into PDF * Quickly share your PDF * Automatic Backup (NEW FEATURE) * Backup and Restore (NEW FEATURE) * Tags. Organise your notes and to do list with labels to find them easily. * Search function. Easy search notes and filter tags. * Preferred Notes. Set note importance. * ToDo lists. * Fast memo. Import text data directly from another source. Copy and paste from your phone to your note. * Simple and intuitive user experience. Create. Edit. Delete. * Photo support. Add photos and images to your secure notes. * Audio notes support. Add audio notes to your secure notes. * Text To Speech support * Colours. Use colours to categorise notes by importance, tags or subject or just make your notepad more fun. * Reminders. Set a reminder for your note or for your to do lists and you'll receive a protected local notification: For your privacy, the actual text of the reminder is visible only inside the app! * Tick the completed tasks. * Share. Send and share individual note to yourself or another contact if you need. * Unlimited text size. * Possibility to set a reminder for Notes and ToDo lists and receive a notification to help you remember things! * Multi languages. * Off-line security. You are the only one that knows your password and everything that you write and save it is stored only on your phone instead of app and database. You don't have to trust any other third-party as nobody else have access to it. Nothing is stored online where someone could potentially read it. 100% privacy protection. * Support: HELP will help you to work with notes, checklist and tags. Also you can always contact us if you have some questions. * Free (Safe Notes is a free app and ads supported).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Norton Password Manager at none against Safe Notes's 1. Norton Password Manager also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (42K vs 22). Safe Notes's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Safe Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Norton Password Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Safe Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Norton Password Manager has 42K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Norton Password Manager's written reviews are positive against 100% of Safe Notes's.
Norton Password Manager ships an update every 5 weeks, Safe Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Norton Password Manager | Safe Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (42K ratings) | 4.9 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42K — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 165 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gen Digital Inc. | Marco Troncone |
Customer experience
Norton Password Manager
Safe Notes
Bugs and requests
Norton Password Manager
Reported bugs
4 issues- Randomly deleting saved passwords
- Inability to reset vault password
- Inconsistent password autofill behavior
- Compatibility issues with certain browsers and devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create password folders or groups
- Option to use longer vault passcodes for increased security
- Seamless integration with other password managers
- Backup and export functionality for passwords
- Biometric authentication support on all platforms
Safe Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Norton Password Manager
No in-app purchases
Safe Notes
- Remove ads$2.99
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