Your passwords in Vando

Where you end upCopy Anchor Link

You open an app or a website and tap the password field. Vando offers your login and fills it. Netflix fills while your vault is open; your bank asks for your fingerprint first. Every password is in your Vault, sorted into Personal and Work, and a piece of paper in a drawer gets you back in if you ever lose the phone.

It takes about 10 minutes, plus however long your old password manager takes to export.

Before you startCopy Anchor Link

• An Android phone with a screen lock: fingerprint, face or PIN.
• Your email, for a sign-in code.
• Paper and a pen, or a USB stick, for your recovery kit.
• If you are moving from another app: its export file. Bring passwords from another app says how to make one.

The stepsCopy Anchor Link

Sign upCopy Anchor Link

Open Vando and tap Get started. Type your email: We send a code to it. No password to remember. Type the 6-digit code from the email (it works for 10 minutes). Then tap Continue with your fingerprint. Your vault key is made on this phone, and Vando never sees it.

Make your recovery kitCopy Anchor Link

The app shows eight groups of letters and digits. Write them on paper, or tap Save a copy and save the file somewhere off this phone, like a USB stick. Never a screenshot or a note on this phone: the kit is for the day the phone is gone. Then type back the one group the app asks for, to check your copy is right while you can still fix it.

Why the kit matters.

Bring in your passwordsCopy Anchor Link

The last screen asks What first? Tap Bring passwords from another app and pick the export file from your old password manager. It is read on this phone and never uploaded. You see what comes in and where it goes, then tap Import (it names how many) and approve once with your fingerprint. The whole import, step by step.

Starting fresh instead? In the Vault, tap New and pick what you are saving: a login, a note, an API key, a card, a one-time code or a file.

Turn on autofillCopy Anchor Link

In Settings → Autofill, the app walks you through three switches, each with its own button:

1. Autofill: Android lets one app fill passwords, so you pick Vando once.
2. Passkeys: so new passkeys are kept in your vault too.
3. Chrome: Chrome keeps its own password list unless you tell it to use Vando.

If Samsung Pass or Google fills passwords on your phone today, switching to Vando deletes nothing there.

What success looks likeCopy Anchor Link

• The Vault lists your passwords, in Personal and Work (or a new vault named after your old app).
• Settings → Autofill shows Autofill is on.
• Tapping a login field in an app or in Chrome offers your Vando login. An Easy login fills straight away while your vault is open; a Just me login asks for your fingerprint, face or PIN first.

New things start at Just me. You can change each thing’s lock on its page: the four levels.

What can go wrongCopy Anchor Link

“That code didn’t work”

The code was mistyped or is older than 10 minutes. Tap Send a new code.

“That isn’t group 3. Check it against your copy.”

Your copy of the kit has a mistake. Fix it on paper now, while the app still shows it.

Nothing offers to fill

Another app still holds Android’s autofill. Open Settings → Autofill in Vando again and redo the first switch.

“This export is encrypted.”

Export again from your old app without a password, then pick that file. More.

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Last verified 15 October 2026