OTOH, there’s a companion app to KPD that allows you to open it via a NFC tag (assuming your device is NFC-enabled) and thus avoid having to wrestle with a entering a complicated master password. That might give K2A an edge, because it has a quick-reopen feature that allows you to use a shorter password to reopen the db if you’ve already opened it (with the full password) recently. KPD accesses the local copy of your db, and the cloud provider’s app keeps it in sync with the cloud.īear in mind that if you use a strong master password to open your KeePass db, that can be a hassle on your mobile, where keyboards are harder to use. KPD only opens a local db, though you can use it with gdrive or dropbox if you install one of those apps on your android device and sync a folder on your device to the cloud. (Of course, this assumes you have a cloud account.) OTOH, that’s a slower way of getting at your stored passwords. The latter can be used even if you haven’t installed the cloud provider’s android app, because it accesses the cloud directly. K2A comes in two flavors–one version that only opens a local db and another that will directly open cloud dbs, such as a KeePass db stored in gdrive or dropbox.
It’s a little less convenient, though supposedly prevents the possibility of other apps snooping on the cut/paste operation without your knowledge. K2A instead copies the credentials to its own, secure keyboard, so when you open your web browser it takes a few more steps to select the keyboard and then select the username/password to paste.
With KPD you open the database and select an entry, and it copies the username and password to the android notification shade, where you can then copy/paste into websites or password entry boxes in other apps.
OTOH, that may be because Keepass2Android is arguably a little more secure. I’ve tried both of the others and they are quite similar, though I find KeePassDroid easier to use. (There is a crippled, “Lite” version, but why bother with crippled when the other two are free and work quite well?) I know nothing about KeepShare other than it costs money. AFAIK, there are only three real choices of android apps that are compatible with KeePass PC databases: KeePassDroid, Keepass2Android, and KeepShare.
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