It's easy to create your Password Boss account; just follow the instructions below. First, it's important to understand that accessing your account requires knowing your Master Password. This is the only password you'll need to remember since Password Boss will remember all your other passwords and secure items.

Guidelines for choosing a master password

If you forget the master password for your Password Boss Desktop account, you cannot reset it or recover your account. If you use our Password Boss WebApp account, create a Recovery PDF to recover your account. Choose a Master Password that you will not forget. You can change your Master Password at any time from Settings.

Your Master Password must include:

1. 8+ characters
2. At least one capital letter.
3. At least one number. 
4. At least one special character, such as !, $, %, or &.

See the section at the bottom of this article for more ideas about creating a strong password that is hard to guess.

Create your account

Installing Password Boss on your other devices

Once you use Password Boss on one device and create an account, you can connect other devices to your account so you can access your account from multiple devices.

On any device you want to connect to your account, you will need to download the app or visit the  WebApp site on that device and then choose to Log in to your account. When adding a new device to your account, you will need to verify ownership of your account as a security measure. The process is simple: log in to your existing account from your new device. We will send you a verification code to enter into the app on your new device.

Tips for choosing a good Master Password

Choose a Master Password that is easy to remember but hard for others to guess. Here are some ideas for choosing a good password.

Use a passphrase

The best tip for creating a strong and easy-to-remember password is to use a passphrase—a short sentence that’s distinctive, unique, yet easy to remember. Think of something that describes your life—something that no one knows but you. A good passphrase is particularly meaningful and memorable for you, such as “I went to college on September 3rd 2001.”, or a favorite movie line: “You are here there is nothing I fear.”

Choose the first letter of every word in the passphrase

For example, you can pick the first letter from every word of the passphrase “I went to college on September 3rd 2001.” to create a strong and easy-to-remember password “IwtcoS32”.

Substitute some numbers

Increase the strength of your passphrase by changing some letters to numbers while keeping it easy to remember. For example, you can replace an "s” with a “5”, a “2”, or “3”, replace an “L” with a “7” or a “1”, or replace a “b” with a “6”.

Change some of the letters to symbols

To increase the strength of the passphrase further, change some letters to special symbols that will be easy to remember. For example, you can change an “I” to a “!”, change an “a” to a “@”, or change an “S” to a “$”, etc.

Example of how to create a strong password that’s easy to remember

Let's say you went to college on September 3rd, 2001, and you want to use this significant experience to form the basis for your strong, easy-to-remember password. Choose the first letter from every word in the phrase “I went to college on September 3rd 2001.” ensuring that you include the upper and lower case letters and all numbers. That would produce a password of “IwtcoS32001.” It’s 11 characters long and includes upper and lower-case letters and all numbers. It’s a strong password. Change the “I” to the symbol “!” and the "S" to a "$" to make the password even stronger and harder to crack.