RoboForm is a password manager, which is a class of software that allows users to have secure, unique passwords for every website accessed. It is amongst the older
password managers
on the market, developed by US company Siber Systems, distributed as a
freemium
Freemium, a portmanteau of the words "free" and "premium," is a pricing strategy by which a basic product or service is provided free of charge, but money (a premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual (online) or physical (o ...
product with a
subscription plan,
available on
macOS,
Windows,
iOS and
Android
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and as a
plugin for
web browsers.
Overview
Siber Systems is a company founded in 1995 by Vadim Maslov with headquarters in
Fairfax, Virginia.
The company was founded to capitalize on research into
text parsing
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, compilation and transformation to produce useful, commercially-viable technologies.
They released RoboForm as their first consumer product in 1999.
RoboForm was initially a form-filling utility and was further developed into a full-fledged password manager,
then delivered with
password generator
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, password capturer, password importer,
multi-factor authentication and secure password sharing.
The first business version of RoboForm was released in 2009. In 2010 it was introduced premium cross-platform subscription service for individuals and in 2015, Siber Systems launched RoboForm as a
software as a service solution (SaaS). The freemium model was available starting in 2017.
See also
*
List of password managers
References
{{Password managers
Password managers
Utilities for Windows