Most password managers do one thing: remember website logins and fill them in automatically. Useful, but narrow.
And honestly, even for that you do not need a standalone app anymore. Your browser does it for free. Apple Keychain and Google Password Manager are built into your devices. If all you need is to store and autofill passwords, you are already covered.
Your digital life is far more than passwords. Passports, licenses, credit cards, bank accounts, investment folios, insurance policies, utility accounts, memberships. Each has its own set of details, and none of them fit into a username and password field. For all of that, you have to look beyond password managers.
HexaVault was built for all of it.
The Problem with Existing Password Managers
Established password managers like Bitwarden, 1Password, and many others are excellent tools for what they were designed to do. But their design reflects their original purpose: storing login credentials for websites. Everything beyond that is an afterthought.
Take Bitwarden. If you want to store your passport details, the closest option is the Identity card type. It bundles a passport number, national insurance number, and driving licence number into a single entry. Any additional detail has to be added as a custom field. You select a field type, it appears at the bottom of the entry, separated from everything else. The experience feels like a workaround because it is one.
1Password is more flexible. It supports a wider range of templates and even allows sections within an entry. But try storing an insurance policy, a utility account, or a mutual fund investment with its folio number, security questions, and fund house URL. No template exists for these. You fall back to a secure note and start adding custom fields one by one, each requiring you to choose a data type first. It works, but you are clearly operating outside of what the tool was built for.
Others like Proton Pass, LastPass, and Dashlane follow the same pattern. A handful of templates for logins, cards, and identity documents, and a secure note for everything else. The message is clear: if it is not a password, it does not quite belong here.
HexaVault's Approach: Templates That Match Real Life
HexaVault starts from a different premise. It is not a password manager that also handles other things. It is a secure vault for all important information, and website logins are just one category within it.
The foundation is simple: every information is a collection of label-value pairs. Every template is a predefined list of labels.
- Credit Card: card number, name on card, expiry, CVV, bank name, credit limit.
- Passport: passport number, full name, date of issue, date of expiry, issuing authority.
- Domain Name: registrar, registered on, expiry, domain secret.
Flexibility Without Complexity
Not every piece of information fits a predefined template, and HexaVault does not pretend otherwise. Press Add Field and a blank label and text field appear. Type whatever you want. No field type to select, no dropdown, no settings. Just a label and a value.
If you store a particular type of information regularly, you can define your own template and reuse it whenever you need it.
This is the balance HexaVault strikes: structured enough to be useful, flexible enough to handle anything.
How Information Is Displayed
When you view an entry in Bitwarden, fields are grouped according to the original template structure. Some are hidden, some are visible, and the custom fields you added appear separately at the end. It requires effort to understand what you are looking at.
HexaVault takes a simpler approach. Every entry displays as a clean list of all its fields. All values are hidden by default. You reveal only what you need. There is no visual hierarchy to decode, no separation between template fields and custom fields. Everything you stored is right there, in the order you entered it.
Icons and Organisation
HexaVault includes a built-in icon library for categories and individual entries. It is a small detail, but it makes a meaningful difference when you are navigating a vault that contains dozens of different types of information. Bitwarden does not allow changing icons at all. 1Password either fetches a website's favicon automatically or lets you upload a custom image. Neither approach works well for offline information like documents and financial accounts.
The Bigger Picture
Password managers have trained users to think of a secure vault as a place for passwords. HexaVault challenges that assumption. A truly useful vault should be able to hold everything that matters: identity documents, financial information, utilities, memberships, accounts of every kind, both online and offline.
Most people do not have a system for this kind of information. Details are scattered across emails, notes apps, spreadsheets, physical files, diaries, and wallets. Some things are memorised. Some are on a printout somewhere. Some are simply not stored at all and have to be looked up every single time.
It works, until it does not. Until you need a detail urgently and cannot find it. Until someone else needs access and there is no single place to point them to.
HexaVault is that single place. Everything structured, everything secure, everything where you expect it to be.
Give it a try. You may just like it more than the other password managers.