Passwords
Litr saves the passwords you sign in with and fills them in for you, in its own vault in your Mac's keychain.
Saving
When you sign in to a site, a strip under the toolbar asks Save the password for … on …?
- Save keeps it. If you already had one for that account, the strip asks to Update it instead.
- Never for This Site stops Litr from asking there.
- Not Now asks again next time.
Sign-ins in two steps, such as Google's (the account on one page, the password on the next), are saved as one.
Forget tabs never offer to save.
Filling in
On a sign-in page for a site you have a password for, the strip says Sign in to … as with your accounts. Click one and Litr fills in the account and the password. A 🔑 in the address bar brings the strip back.
Litr never fills in by itself, and only in the page's main frame, on the site the password was saved for or one of its subdomains. It checks the site itself rather than trusting the page.
The Passwords list
Settings → Passwords… (or Litr → Passwords…) lists every saved password by site and account, with a search field.
- Show and Copy ask for Touch ID or your Mac's password first, then not again for five minutes.
- Delete asks you to click again to confirm.
- Never saved lists the sites you told Litr not to save for; click one to let Litr offer again.
Importing passwords
From Chrome, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and Opera
In Import from another browser (Settings, the Bookmarks menu, or the Passwords list), choose the browser and turn on Passwords. These browsers encrypt their passwords with a key in your keychain, so macOS asks whether Litr may use that key ("Litr wants to use your confidential information stored in 'Arc Safe Storage'"). Enter your Mac's password and click Allow. Litr reads the passwords, keeps them in its own vault, and leaves the other browser as it was. Sites you told that browser never to save for come along too.
From Safari, Firefox and password managers
Export the passwords as a CSV file, then click Import CSV… in the Passwords list:
- Safari and the Passwords app: File → Export All Passwords…
- Firefox: Settings → Passwords → ⋯ → Export Passwords…
- 1Password, Bitwarden and others: their CSV export.
A CSV file holds your passwords unencrypted. After importing, Litr offers to move it to the Trash; empty the Trash afterwards.
Importing again adds only accounts Litr doesn't have yet, and never overwrites a password you saved in Litr.
Where they're kept
In your login keychain, as internet passwords labelled "… (Litr)", encrypted by macOS and readable only by Litr. They don't sync to other devices, and they aren't in Apple's Passwords app. Deleting Litr's keychain items (or a password in the list) removes them.
Web apps don't use the vault: each is an app of its own.
Passkeys
Sites that offer passkeys use the ones in your iCloud Keychain instead; see Troubleshooting.