Dashlane’s free password manager ends soon. Here’s what to do

Dashlane is one of our favorite password managers, in part because of its free plan. Though restricted, you could try it for an unlimited amount of time. Or at least, you could until last week, when the company announced an end to the good times.

Dashlane Free users get the boot on September 16, 2025—so if you’re one of them, you have a little over a month to decide your next steps. Fortunately, Dashlane allows you to export your passwords, which means you can choose to stay or go.

If you stay with Dashlane, you must upgrade to a Premium subscription (our current top pick for best password manager). Its features include unlimited password storage, multidevice access, phishing warning alerts on suspicious websites, secure sharing of passwords, access to customer support, and VPN service.

Normally, this plan costs $60 per year, but you can get 50 percent off through the link in the August 5 email you received about Dashlane Free’s discontinuation. (The offer was supposed to expire after August 12, but as of August 14, it’s still live.) Note that Dashlane appears to have sent out this email in waves—I received mine on August 7.

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Otherwise, you can export your passwords to a CSV file and then upload them to a new service. Excellent alternatives exist, like Bitwarden and NordPass—you can read about them in our best free password manager and best password manager roundups. (Spoiler: Both services offer generous free plans and very affordable upgrade subscriptions. Bitwarden is just $10 per year!)

Heads-up: If you do export to a CSV file, be aware the contents of the file are not encrypted—anyone can look at your passwords in plain text. So be careful where you save the file, and after uploading the data to your new password manager, delete it!

Which route you go will depend on how easily you can adapt to a new password manager. I recommend still staying with a third-party service, since good free ones provide a heck of a lot more than Apple Passwords or Google Password Manager.

Dashlane says this “streamlining” of its personal plans is to allow them to “further accelerate [its] security innovations.” The good news is plenty of other password managers keep pushing out new updates, too—and some of them are still free.