id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Matt Elliott/CNET Welcome to CNET's 2019 directory of password managers. We've picked our favorite tools for taming the chaos of all those accounts and passwords.

And let's be honest: "chaos" is an accurate description. Complex passwords are difficult to remember, so many users have defaulted to passwords like "password," "abc123," their pet's name and other hacker-friendly naming conventions.

In a world where password breaches can affect hundreds of millions of users, it's plausible that your passwords may already be floating around the seedier corners of the internet.

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<b>Password managers to the rescue!</b>
A password manager serves many purposes, all of them helpful. It keeps all your passwords under one encrypted (and password-protected) roof. It generates strong passwords for you and automatically inserts th