Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET has announced(nouvelle fenêtre) that ESET Password Manager is being discontinued. Sales for the product ended on October 21, 2025, and new subscriptions can no longer be purchased. No replacement app is being developed as the company is opting to end support for some of its older services, such as its parental control app for Android

ESET Password Manager will shut down on October 18, 2027. After that date, the app won’t work anymore and all your stored data will be permanently deleted. In other words, you’ll need to export your passwords and find them a new home before that deadline.

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How your ESET Password Manager subscription is affected

Here’s what all of this means for your subscription:

  • If you activated ESET Password Manager before October 21, 2025, you can keep using it until your current subscription period ends. However, any subscription changes you make after that date (upgrading, downgrading, enlarging, downsizing) will block new activations.
  • If you have an annual subscription and your first renewal happens before October 18, 2027, you’ll be able to use the tool until the end of your renewed subscription period plus 14 extra days. But if your first renewal is scheduled after October 18, your access will end on that date.
  • If you have a monthly auto-renewal subscription, the app stopped working for you on December 5, 2025, and you can no longer access it.
  • If you purchased a subscription but didn’t activate it before October 21, 2025, you won’t be able to anymore, as the feature no longer appears in any ESET product or in ESET HOME.

Choose your new password manager

When you’re ready to move to a new password manager, you can choose one that goes beyond just basic password management. With Proton Pass, you can:

  • Store as many items as you want, including passwords, identities, credit cards, and encrypted notes.
  • Securely share vaults containing logins, aliases, notes, and more with anyone.
  • Attach files (such as ID scans or receipts) to items in your vault and share them securely, keeping everything you need organized in one place.
  • Use hide-my-email aliases to sign up for online services without exposing your real email address, helping you protect your privacy and avoid spam.
  • Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for all your saved accounts with an integrated 2FA authenticator.
  • Protect yourself from data breaches with Dark Web Monitoring, which alerts you if your personal data was leaked.
  • Create and store passkeys for faster logging in and stronger security than passwords.

End-to-end encryption protects everything you store in Proton Pass — the same encryption used across all Proton apps. Plus, our password manager is open source and has been independently investigated by third-party security experts, so anyone can verify its security model. You can use it as a web app, through browser extensions, and by downloading the dedicated apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.

For teams affected by ESET Password Manager’s discontinuation, Proton also offers Pass for Business — a secure, end-to-end encrypted password manager built for organizations of all sizes. It makes it easy to deploy password management across your team, share logins safely, enforce security policies, and monitor activity with detailed reporting.

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How to switch to Proton Pass

Moving all of your passwords from ESET Password Manager to Proton Pass is simple:

  1. In ESET Password Manager, go to Settings → Export data.
  2. Choose an export option and type your master password.
  3. Select Export Data.
  4. Create a Proton Pass account or log into your existing account.
  5. Import your data into Proton Pass.
  6. Delete the file you exported from ESET Password Manager.

Once you’ve imported all of your data, you’re ready to start using Proton Pass.

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