European Alternatives to Dashlane
Looking for a European alternative to Dashlane? Dashlane has a Paris subsidiary, Dashlane SAS, which its privacy policy names as the GDPR controller, but the policy itself is issued by Dashlane, Inc. of 44 West 18th Street, New York, and the site's copyright line reads Dashlane Inc. Its business plans are sold per user and month billed annually, with an Enterprise tier on volume pricing.
The European tools below run from Proton Pass in Switzerland and NordPass in Lithuania to Uniqkey in Denmark, Passbolt in Luxembourg and heylogin in Germany, plus offline vaults such as KeePassXC and KeePass that involve no vendor cloud at all.
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10 European Alternatives to Dashlane
NordPass
The nearest match for both personal and business Dashlane accounts
Proton Pass
The privacy-first landing for personal users, with aliases Dashlane lacks
Uniqkey
A Danish business-only alternative for firms that need data kept in the EU
Passbolt
A team vault you can run yourself, with no vendor holding the data
heylogin
Drops the master password that Dashlane's own passwordless login only partly replaces
F-Secure ID Protection
A vault bundled with breach monitoring, priced per device
Psono
An open-source team vault from Germany, hosted by you or by them
Password Depot
A one-time licence from a certified German vendor with no cloud of its own
KeePassXC
The no-vendor route: an encrypted file on your own device
KeePass
The no-service answer: a local encrypted file instead of a vendor cloud
Key takeaways
- Dashlane, Inc. of New York issues the privacy policy, while Dashlane SAS in Paris is only the GDPR controller inside that group.
- Dashlane says its Secured Data cannot be decrypted by the company, so account metadata is the exposure that remains.
- Dashlane states that personal data may be stored and processed in the United States, which is the step a European alternative removes.
- Dashlane Enterprise is priced by volume on request, and its published business tiers are billed per user per month annually.
- Passbolt, Psono and KeePassXC are the only options here that can run without a vendor-hosted vault.
Why people leave Dashlane
Dashlane looks European from a distance. It has a subsidiary in Paris, Dashlane SAS at 21 Rue Pierre Picard, and its privacy policy names that company as the GDPR controller.
Read the rest of the document and the picture changes: the policy is issued by Dashlane, Inc., the legal contact address is 44 West 18th Street in New York, and every page footer carries the copyright line Dashlane Inc. The French company is an affiliate inside a group headed from the United States.
That matters less for the vault than for everything around it. The vault is encrypted on the device and Dashlane says it cannot read it, so a legal order against Dashlane, Inc. would mostly hand over ciphertext. What it could reach is the account metadata: billing data, sign-in records, and the IP activity the policy says is kept for 45 days in production logs and a further year in segregated backups.
The policy is also candid that data may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States, and that certain affiliates sit there. Buyers who must show a regulator or an auditor that credential data never leaves Europe, or who simply want a vendor whose parent company is European, are the ones who end up on this page.
- The group is American even though the controller is French The Paris company is the controller for GDPR purposes, which is a real legal anchor, but it is the affiliate and not the parent. Dashlane, Inc. issues the privacy policy and owns the copyright line. If your procurement rules ask where the ultimate owner is established, the honest answer for Dashlane is New York. Proton Pass (Geneva), NordPass (Vilnius) and Passbolt (Luxembourg) answer that question with a European address from top to bottom.
- United States processing is written into the policy Dashlane states that personal data may be transferred to, stored by and processed in the United States, and it relies on data processing addenda between its EU and US affiliates to cover that. That is lawful and clearly disclosed, but it means a transfer assessment on your side. Uniqkey keeps data in Danish data centres and heylogin in Germany, which removes the question instead of documenting an answer to it.
- The product has grown into a security platform Dashlane now sells Omnix, a platform that combines password management with credential protection, risk detection and AI phishing alerts, and its Enterprise tier is priced by volume on request. A team that wanted a vault gets a larger product than it asked for. Passbolt and Psono do the vault and the sharing and stop there, which is simpler to evaluate and to pay for.
- Most prices sit behind a sales conversation or a checkout The business pricing page lists Password Management and Credential Protection as "per user/month billed annually" and sends you to Buy now or Contact Sales, and the Enterprise tier is custom. Comparing that with the published per-user prices of Passbolt Pro or the one-time €99.95 of Password Depot takes a quote, not a table.
What you have to replace, not just match
What you replace is more than a vault. Dashlane covers the personal and family password manager, a business password manager with an admin console, passkey and passwordless login support, SSO and SCIM integrations, and monitoring features such as dark web insights and AI-powered phishing alerts. Check which of those your people actually use before you pick, because most European tools cover the vault and sharing well and the monitoring layer unevenly.
On the business side the pieces to inventory are the SSO connection, the provisioning link to your directory, the shared collections people rely on and any SIEM feed your security team reads from the Dashlane console. Uniqkey and heylogin cover SSO-style login flows, Passbolt offers groups and an API, and none of them is a like-for-like copy of the credential-risk dashboards, so decide whether you still need that view and from where.
For a household the replacement is simpler: autofill on every device, a generator, breach alerts and sharing with family. NordPass and Proton Pass cover that and F-Secure ID Protection adds breach monitoring. If you chose Dashlane for its Scam Protection feature, which warns about suspicious sites before you log in, treat it as a separate requirement, because no tool here is documented on the site as doing the same.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | NordPass | Vilnius, Lithuania | Free tier / from about €1.49/month (Premium) | EU (Lithuania) |
| #2 | Proton Pass | Geneva, Switzerland | Free tier / from about €1.99/month (Pass Plus) | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #3 | Uniqkey | Copenhagen, Denmark | From about €3/user/month | EU (Denmark) |
| #4 | Passbolt | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg | Free Community Edition / from about €4/user/month (Pro) | EU (Luxembourg) |
| #5 | heylogin | Hannover, Germany | Free tier / from about €2.50/user/month (Business) | EU (Germany) |
| #6 | F-Secure ID Protection | Helsinki, Finland | €49.99/year (1 device) / €69.99/year (3 devices) / €79.99/year (5 devices), VAT included | EU (Finland) |
| #7 | Psono | Germany | Free and open source / paid hosting and enterprise plans | EU (Germany) |
| #8 | Password Depot | Darmstadt, Germany | €99.95 one-time (1 user, all own devices) / Family €149.95 one-time for 5 licences / Enterprise Server by quote, free for up to 3 users | EU (Germany) |
| #9 | KeePassXC | Weimar, Germany | Free and open source | No service — the file is yours |
| #10 | KeePass | Germany | Free and open source | No service — the file is yours |
How each alternative compares to Dashlane
Best for: Individuals, families and small firms that want a polished vault from an EU company
NordPass is built by Nord Security in Vilnius, so the corporate trail ends in Lithuania where Dashlane's ends in New York. It follows the same consumer shape as Dashlane: generator, autofill on every platform, secure sharing and a data breach scanner, with a free plan limited to one device and Premium from about €1.49 a month.
The encryption is the notable difference. NordPass uses XChaCha20 and a zero-knowledge design where the master password and derived keys never reach the company, which is the same promise Dashlane makes about its own Secured Data. Dashlane's platform pitch is broader; NordPass stays a vault for people and small teams.
What NordPass does better than Dashlane
- Corporate trail ends in the EU instead of New York
- Cheapest paid tier on the page at about €1.49 per month
- Cipher chosen for speed on phones without hardware AES
- Independent audits stated for the zero-knowledge design
Where NordPass is a step down from Dashlane
- Free plan covers a single device only
- Nothing like Dashlane's credential-risk and phishing-alert layer is documented on the site
- Closed source, so the implementation cannot be inspected
Standout against Dashlane. The one tool here that mirrors Dashlane's personal and business split from a European head office.
Best for: Privacy-minded individuals who also want disposable email addresses
Proton Pass comes from Proton AG in Geneva, with data centres in Switzerland and Germany, and the source is public. It generates a forwarding email alias per sign-up, ten on the free tier and unlimited with Pass Plus, which hides the one identifier a password rotation never changes.
Dashlane is ahead on breadth for companies. Proton Pass launched in 2023, its enterprise controls are limited and it has no travel mode, so an IT department that relies on Dashlane's admin console and integrations will miss things. For a household moving across, it is the lighter, more private option.
What Proton Pass does better than Dashlane
- Swiss company with open, published source code
- Unlimited aliases on Pass Plus inside the same dialogue as the password
- Free tier available, from about €1.99 a month on Pass Plus
- Fits alongside Proton Mail, Calendar, Drive and VPN in one account
Where Proton Pass is a step down from Dashlane
- Enterprise and admin controls are limited next to Dashlane Business
- Younger product that is still closing feature gaps
- Autofill can miss fields on complicated websites
Standout against Dashlane. Aliases and source code together, neither of which Dashlane offers.
Best for: Companies that must show credential data stays in European data centres
Uniqkey ApS in Copenhagen sells to businesses only, from about €3 per user per month, and stores everything in Danish data centres inside the EU. Where Dashlane's policy discusses US transfers and addenda between affiliates, Uniqkey's position is that the processing never leaves the EEA at all.
It adds team management, roles and SSO to the zero-knowledge vault. What you lose is the free option: evaluation runs through a demo, and the product is not open source, so the client has to be trusted. For an organisation weighing it against Dashlane Business it is the shortest route to a clean data-location answer.
What Uniqkey does better than Dashlane
- Data held only in Danish data centres inside the EU
- Designed around GDPR instead of adapted to it
- Per-user pricing starting at about €3 stated up front
Where Uniqkey is a step down from Dashlane
- No free tier, evaluation goes through a demo
- Smaller ecosystem and fewer integrations than Dashlane
- Not suitable for individuals or families
Standout against Dashlane. A business vault whose data location needs no transfer assessment.
Best for: IT teams sharing infrastructure credentials who want to own the server
Passbolt SA in Luxembourg builds on OpenPGP, so each shared credential is encrypted separately to every authorised user. It is open source under AGPL v3, can be self-hosted on Linux, Docker or Kubernetes, and also exists as a managed EU cloud. The Community Edition is free and Pro is about €4 per user per month.
Against Dashlane the trade is control for convenience. You get groups, role-based access, an activity log and an API, but not the consumer polish: the GPG model has a learning curve and the mobile apps trail the web and extension. It suits technical teams more than households.
What Passbolt does better than Dashlane
- Can run on your own server, so no vendor cloud is involved
- Open source with published independent audits
- Per-recipient encryption means administrators cannot read shared secrets
- Free Community Edition for small teams
Where Passbolt is a step down from Dashlane
- Poor fit for a single individual
- Mobile apps and onboarding are rougher than Dashlane's
- Self-hosting means you maintain and patch it
Standout against Dashlane. The only option here that lets a team hold the server and still share secrets with per-user keys.
Best for: Small teams and individuals who want to log in by approving on their phone
heylogin GmbH in Hannover hosts in Germany and replaces the master password with your phone: a login request appears and you approve it with a fingerprint, face or PIN. Dashlane markets passwordless login as a feature on top of a vault; heylogin makes it the base of the design.
There is a free tier, and business plans start at about €2.50 per user per month with team sharing built in. The cost is a smaller feature set and a heavier reliance on the phone, so a second device is essential. It is not open source and it has no equivalent of Dashlane's monitoring layer.
What heylogin does better than Dashlane
- No master password to forget or be phished for
- German company with German hosting
- Business plan from about €2.50 per user per month
Where heylogin is a step down from Dashlane
- Smaller feature set than Dashlane
- Losing the phone matters more, so a backup device is needed
- Closed source and mobile-first
Standout against Dashlane. The only tool on this page where passwordless is the architecture, not an add-on.
Best for: Households that valued Dashlane's alerts as much as its autofill
F-Secure Corporation is a Helsinki company listed on Nasdaq Helsinki, and its ID Protection product combines a vault with monitoring that warns when your address appears in a breach. Prices are stated with VAT: €49.99 a year for one device, €69.99 for three and €79.99 for five, after a 30-day trial.
It is the most expensive consumer option here, and F-Secure names neither the country nor the provider of its servers, only Finland or the EEA. The source is closed and no independent certification is stated on the pages checked, so it is a monitoring choice more than a security-assurance one.
What F-Secure ID Protection does better than Dashlane
- Finnish listed company with public accounts
- Breach monitoring sold with the vault in one subscription
- Prices including VAT stated openly
Where F-Secure ID Protection is a step down from Dashlane
- Server country and hosting provider not named
- Much dearer than NordPass or Proton Pass
Standout against Dashlane. A listed European vendor you can read the accounts of.
Best for: Organisations that want shared logins on their own infrastructure
Psono is developed in Germany by esaqa GmbH, is open source and can be installed on your own server or used hosted on German servers. Encryption happens in the client, so the server stores material it cannot read, and credentials are shared with groups so that access can be withdrawn when someone leaves.
Self-hosting is free at any team size and paid plans add the administration features larger deployments need. Dashlane is far ahead on interface polish, integrations and consumer features, and Psono expects you to run and update the server yourself.
What Psono does better than Dashlane
- Self-hostable and open source, with free use at any team size
- German hosted option with client-side encryption
- Group sharing with revocable access
Where Psono is a step down from Dashlane
- Interface is functional rather than polished
- Smaller set of integrations than Dashlane
Standout against Dashlane. Free self-hosting for teams of any size.
Best for: Buyers who want to pay once and keep the vault off the vendor's servers
AceBIT GmbH in Darmstadt sells Password Depot for €99.95 once for one user across their own devices, or €149.95 once for five licences, and quotes an Enterprise Server for teams, free for up to three users. It holds an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate from TÜV NORD and has been penetration tested by SySS.
AceBIT runs no cloud, so the vault is a local file, your own server or your own Azure tenant. That is the clearest contrast with a subscription service. The source is closed, home sync goes through Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or HiDrive, and three of those four are American.
What Password Depot does better than Dashlane
- One-time price instead of a recurring subscription
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate from TÜV NORD
- No vendor-held data at all
Where Password Depot is a step down from Dashlane
- Closed source, so the client cannot be inspected
- Sync services offered are mostly American
- Enterprise Server pricing is quote-only
Standout against Dashlane. Pay once, and no vendor cloud ever holds the vault.
Best for: Individuals who want an offline vault and are happy to manage sync and backup
KeePassXC keeps passwords in an encrypted KDBX file with no account and no cloud, so there is no company to compare with Dashlane at all. It has native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux, supports Auto-Type and passkeys, and holds an ANSSI CSPN security visa for version 2.7.9 on Windows 10, valid until 17 November 2028.
It is free under GPL-2 or GPL-3 and maintained by a community team with a legal contact in Weimar. The price of that independence is that you arrange sync and backup, nobody provides support, and sharing with colleagues is awkward. It replaces the vault of Dashlane, not its monitoring, admin or phishing tools.
What KeePassXC does better than Dashlane
- No account, no cloud and no provider to breach
- Free and open source with no paid tier
- State-run ANSSI evaluation of one version
Where KeePassXC is a step down from Dashlane
- No support contract and no service level
- Sync, backup and recovery are your responsibility
- Team sharing is awkward next to Dashlane Business
Standout against Dashlane. The only entry here that needs no vendor and no jurisdiction.
Best for: People who want their passwords in a file they control, with no service at all
KeePass has no account, no sync server and no subscription. Passwords live in a single encrypted file on your own device, so there is no provider that could be breached, which is the opposite of Dashlane's hosted model. It is written by Dominik Reichl in Germany, has been maintained since 2003, and the EP entry lists an ANSSI CSPN certification, an EU-FOSSA audit and a BSI-sponsored code analysis.
The costs are real. You handle sync and backup yourself, and losing the file without a backup loses everything. The interface is dated and sharing with a team is awkward, which the EP entry says is what Psono exists for. Compatible clients on every platform read the same file format, so it works with whatever storage you already trust.
What KeePass does better than Dashlane
- No company or cloud that can be breached
- Free and open source
- Independent audit and certification noted in the EP entry
Where KeePass is a step down from Dashlane
- Sync and backup are your job
- Dated interface
- Awkward team sharing
Standout against Dashlane. There is no company to breach, so a provider compromise cannot reach you.
What actually breaks when you switch
The export is the easy part and the habits are the hard part. The European tools import common formats, so an export file from the old vault is the usual route, but the file is unencrypted while it exists, so keep it short-lived. What does not move is shared access: collections created by colleagues belong to them, so ask owners to export their own, and expect to rebuild group permissions by hand in Passbolt, Psono or Uniqkey.
Plan for the integrations next. If your company uses SSO or SCIM provisioning with Dashlane, recreate the connection before you switch anyone over, and check that the destination supports your identity provider. Passkeys and one-time-code entries may need re-enrolling, and people will have to set a new master secret, or phone approval in heylogin's case, so allow a week of broken autofill. The business plans of Dashlane are billed annually per user, so time the move to the renewal date.
Dashlane was founded in France, so is it not already a European company?
It has French roots and a French subsidiary, and the policy names Dashlane SAS in Paris as the controller under the GDPR. What decides eligibility on this site is the contracting entity and the ultimate owner, and the pages we read point to Dashlane, Inc. in New York: it issues the privacy policy, it is the legal contact, and the footer copyright belongs to it.
You can check this yourself in the policy, in the sections on the data controller and on how to contact Dashlane. If your contract names a different Dashlane entity than the policy does, ask the sales team which entity signs, because the terms pages did not render for us and we do not quote them.
If Dashlane cannot read my vault, why does the company address matter?
It matters for what is not in the vault. Dashlane describes the stored credentials as ciphertext it holds no keys for, but it also keeps billing data, account records and IP activity logs. A US company can be served a US order for those regardless of where its servers are, and an American parent also complicates a data transfer assessment.
For many buyers that residual exposure is acceptable and the zero-knowledge design is the main point. For public bodies, regulated firms and anyone who needs a European ultimate owner in the file, the address is the deciding fact, and the vault design is a second question.
Which one to pick
For an individual or a family, start with NordPass if you want the nearest match to what Dashlane felt like, and Proton Pass if privacy and email aliases matter more than breadth. Choose F-Secure ID Protection only if breach monitoring was the reason you paid, since it costs more, and KeePassXC if you would rather hold the file yourself.
For a company, Uniqkey is the cleanest answer to the data-location question and heylogin the lightest to roll out. Passbolt and Psono suit teams that want to host the server, and Password Depot suits a buyer who prefers a one-time licence and a certificate. If your security team depends on Dashlane's credential-risk and phishing alerts, keep that requirement open, because the European tools here cover the vault more fully than the monitoring.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on who you are replacing it for. NordPass is the closest like-for-like for individuals and small businesses, Proton Pass suits privacy-minded personal users who want email aliases, and Uniqkey, Passbolt and heylogin cover teams. Passbolt and Psono add self-hosting, and KeePassXC keeps the vault as a file on your own device with no vendor at all.
Partly. Dashlane SAS is a Paris company and the policy names it as the GDPR controller, and the Dashlane trademarks are held by it. But the privacy policy is issued by Dashlane, Inc., its legal contact address is in New York, and the site footer carries the copyright line Dashlane Inc. For eligibility on this site it counts as a US-headed group.
The policy does not publish a region for the vault. It says Secured Data is encrypted so Dashlane cannot access it, and separately that personal data may be transferred to, stored by and processed in the United States by Dashlane, its affiliates and service providers. If you need a named European location, ask Dashlane directly or pick a vendor that states one.
Dashlane states business plans as per user per month billed annually and the Enterprise tier as custom volume pricing, and the personal page offers a 14-day free trial. We do not quote its figures because they do not render on the pages we could read. For comparison, NordPass Premium starts at about €1.49 a month and Passbolt Pro at about €4 per user per month.
Yes, through an export file that the destination imports, usually CSV or a format the importer names. Treat the file as plain text: create it on an encrypted disk, verify the import, then delete it. Shared items belong to whoever owns them, so each owner should export their own collections instead of assuming one export covers everyone.
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