Norton Password Manager Review and Pricing in 2025

If you understand password managers, you already know they can vastly improve your account security. But that doesn’t mean you have enough money leftover in your monthly budget to pay for one of the best password managers available. That’s where the top free password managers come into play. They let you experience those security benefits without any impact on your monthly budget.

Today, we’re going to look at one of those free password managers. Our cybersecurity team spent the last two weeks using Norton’s new password manager they’re offering for free. We didn’t even need to sign up for Norton 360 to get access. And overall, we thought it worked well enough to compete with paid password managers although it lacked a few features we look for, like data breach monitoring.

Norton Password Manager’s Pricing

The pricing of Norton’s password manager is one of its biggest selling points. That’s because it’s free. We used it for as long as we wanted with support for unlimited passwords without ever even putting down our credit card information.

We’ve only experienced this once before when we tested NordPass. Although they have paid plans too, they offer a lifetime free plan that supports unlimited passwords. Most competitors include some type of limitation with their free plans. For instance, when we tested Dashlane, they only allowed us to store 25 passwords until we needed to pay for an upgrade.

Signing Up for Norton Password Manager

Since we already had a Norton account from when we tested Norton 360, we didn’t need to sign up. All we had to do was download the extension for our preferred browser and sign into our Norton account. We use Chrome most often, so we downloaded the Chrome extension. But, Norton also offers an extension for Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.

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We didn’t need a new account, but we still went through the process of making one to see what the sign-up process would be like for you. When directed to the sign-in page, we hit create an account instead of filling out our login credentials. Then, we input our email address, created a password, and selected our region to create an account. From there, we could use Norton’s password manager for free with our new account.

We also installed Norton Password Manager on our Android device. To sign up, we just needed to search it on the Google Play Store, download the app, and sign in. Then, it automatically synced our passwords with the browser extension as well. We’ll get into how we imported our passwords next. If you’re looking for a password manager specifically for your Android, check out our roundup of the best password managers for Android.

Setting Up Norton Password Manager

Before we could start importing passwords to Norton, we needed to create a vault password and set up our vault. Their requirements for a vault password are more stringent than most. Not only did they require at least 12 characters (most require eight), upper and lower case characters, and digits, but they also required a different password than our Norton 360 account.

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That security measure prevented us from reusing passwords because if we had a common password we tend to use for accounts, we probably already used it for our Norton 360 account. This extra security measure kept our vault password from leaking if our password to one of our other accounts was compromised.

After setting up our password, we needed to retype it to make sure we knew what it was. Then, we could either download the password as an encrypted file or check a box stating that we knew if we forgot our password, Norton would not be able to recover it. While that could be inconvenient, we appreciate that Norton doesn’t know our vault’s password and therefore can’t access its contents.

Once we set up our vault, our Norton password automatically got put in the password manager. That let us see how the password manager looked and worked right off the bat. To us, that was a nice touch. The automation let us see if it was a password manager that could work for us before we went through the effort of inputting all our passwords.

On the main screen, Norton gave us a guide on how to add our other passwords. During the initial setup, we recommend importing passwords if you’ve used a password manager before. That even includes saving passwords on your browser. All we had to do was export our passwords into a CSV file and then upload them to Norton. After uploading that CSV file, we recommend deleting it so it doesn’t get compromised.

After we imported most of our passwords, we stopped there. Instead of manually inputting each of our accounts we didn’t already save on Chrome, we decided to let Norton add our login credentials on its own. Anytime we logged into an account, Norton prompted us to save it in our vault. All we had to do was hit yes and those new login credentials were added.

That same process happened when we created accounts, too, except Norton also helped us make secure passwords. Just like when we tested ExpressVPN Keys, we could choose how many characters and the type of characters in the generated password to fit any website’s requirements. Then, when we selected the create account button, Norton asked us if we wanted to save the login credentials for this account.

Our Favorite Norton Password Manager Features

During our two weeks of testing Norton’s password manager, we found a few features to really improve our user experience and security posture. Here’s a breakdown of each one.

End-to-End Encryption

This is a core capability we always look for in password managers. End-to-end encryption means your password manager can’t read the data you store in your vault. And that’s the way it should be. We use password managers to improve our security. If our password manager having a data breach exposed all of our passwords, that would make it less secure than keeping our passwords to ourselves. Even though it’s a feature we always look for, we were impressed it was included in Norton considering it’s a completely free password manager.

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High-Quality Mobile App

The Norton Password Manager app is easy to navigate and fully functional. It offered us all of the same capabilities as using Norton on our computer through a browser except for importing passwords in bulk. But, ideally, we should only need to do that once. Otherwise, we could do anything we could in the browser app from our phone app.

What impressed us most though was the security they added to the mobile app. We’re always worried about losing our phone and therefore all of our passwords ending up in someone else’s hands. Well, Norton required biometric verification to open up our password manager. On top of that, they don’t allow screenshots in the app (that’s why we don’t have any pictures here). All of these precautions ensured our passwords stayed safe.

Passwordless Login

As soon as we downloaded Norton on the mobile app, we could activate passwordless logins. Instead of using our vault password, this feature sent us a push notification asking us to approve a sign in. We thought this was a relatively unique method for passwordless login as most password managers send a code to authenticate a login request. This made using two-factor authentication easier since all we had to do was click approve on our phone.

Update Passwords in the App

One of our favorite features whenever we use a capable password manager is the ability to update our passwords directly in the password manager. That lets us update all of our passwords in minutes.

Normally, when we find out one of our accounts was involved in a data breach, we need to create a complete list of all our accounts. That alone normally takes at least 15 minutes. Then, we go through our list one-by-one logging into each account, finding the setting to change our password, and coming up with a new password. While we were testing Norton, all we needed to do was open up our vault and hit the pencil next to each account and then it would generate a new password for us and change our account’s credentials.

Custom Password Tags

We like to sort our accounts into the amount of privacy we need in each account. Norton lets us do this through tags. So, we tagged our accounts as Low, Medium, and High based on their sensitivity levels.

The accounts with the Low tag only contain our email address at most, e.g., our Reddit login. Medium accounts include a payment method, such as a streaming service. High sensitivity accounts are accounts we never want hacked, like our online banking. This lets us prioritize our security and immediately know how severe any potential data breaches are.

Permanently Delete Vault

With Norton being a free password manager, it’s easy to test it out and see if it’s right for you. But, if you’re like us, you’d be concerned about leaving your passwords in a password manager you don’t end up using. Even though they claim it’s secure, they haven’t gone through a third-party audit and Norton has been through data breaches before.1 If you end up not wanting to use Norton as your password manager, you’ll want to make sure you can delete your vault.

After we were done testing Norton, we did exactly that. So, we can confirm permanently deleting all our passwords was a simple process. At the bottom of the settings tab in the browser, there’s a link right there to permanently delete your vault. We clicked the link and it immediately logged us out. After we logged back in, Norton asked us to confirm our request to permanently delete our vault. Once we confirmed, all of our passwords were gone.

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Final Thoughts: Can Norton’s Free Password Manager Keep You Safe Online?

Based on our two weeks of using Norton Password Manager as our primary password manager, we can confirm it can improve your safety if you don’t currently use a password manager. Despite being completely free, it still had some premium features like auto-updating credentials from the app, custom password tags, and a good mobile app. It also stored unlimited passwords and was free forever, which is uncommon with free password managers.

That said, we did miss out on a few features we expect from paid password managers. One of the most important was data breach notifications. Norton bundles data breach notifications in their paid Norton 360 plans. We wish they at least included email monitoring since they offer a free email data breach scanner web app.

Despite the lack of a couple premium features, we liked when testing Total Password and other paid password managers, Norton is a solid free option.