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Buttercup vs Dashlane: What are the differences?
What is Buttercup? Free and open source password manager for Windows/Mac/Linux. Buttercup is a cross-platform, free, and open source password manager based on NodeJS.
What is Dashlane? Dashlane is a password manager and online security app for everyone who lives, works, and plays on the internet. Dashlane is a password manager and online security app for everyone who lives, works, and plays on the internet.
Buttercup and Dashlane can be primarily classified as "Password Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Buttercup are:
- Supports loading and saving credentials archives both locally and remotely. Remote archives can be stored in a variety of service providers like Dropbox, ownCloud and Nextcloud (and others that support WebDAV, such as Yandex)
- Archives store groups and entries in a simple hierarchy. Both groups and entries can be moved into other groups. Deleted items are trashed before being removed permanently.
- Basic merge conflict resolution when 2 changes are made at once on the file (locally or remote).
On the other hand, Dashlane provides the following key features:
- Identity Management
- Password Manager
- Autofill
Buttercup is an open source tool with 2.86K GitHub stars and 201 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Buttercup's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Buttercup
Pros of Dashlane
- Digital wallet4
- Safe & secure4
- Best UI3
- Synchronized across browsers and devices1
- Passwords stored encrypted1
- Easy setup1
- All devices1
- Firefox addon for desktop and mobile1
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Cons of Buttercup
Cons of Dashlane
- Closed Source3
- No longer has PC app; must be online2
- Inflexible permissioning1