Dashlane

Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 16 threads.

People raised many different problems with Dashlane, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 17 complaints

Password manager described as having poor UX and stability2025-07-03
Admin work for sharing passwords is far more tedious than necessary2024-09-02
App adds itself to startup, minimises instead of quitting, and self-updates without asking2021-01-22
Desktop app and browser extensions are buggy and non-intuitive, causing frustration2020-08-05
Interface is clunky and slow; sharing requires recipients to log out and back in repeatedly2020-03-10
Bad UI led the team to drop Dashlane quickly during evaluation2020-03-10
Standalone license is hidden; users can't find it on homepage or support search2020-02-06
Extension is too slow and sometimes freezes the machine2019-02-24
Dashlane on Ubuntu is browser-extension only with missing features2019-01-18
Safari repeatedly opens a reminder page to install the plugin, with no way to stop it2018-12-22
Form autofill is pretty awful compared to LastPass2018-12-04
Password sharing is incredibly buggy and support gives excuses instead of fixes2017-03-23
Auto-generated passwords are hard to find later and many login forms aren't recognized2017-01-02
Password manager feels clumsy and frustrating to use compared to alternatives2016-07-01
Sharing multiple items at once is rough, and no way to create vaults or groups2016-04-27
Installing the app corrupted over 70 saved passwords, locking the user out of accounts2015-09-28
Auto-login entered credentials permanently and could not be disabled2013-11-02