How to import passwords from a CSV file into Barside

Every major password manager can export your logins as a CSV file: a plain table with one login per row. Barside reads those files and imports your website logins into its free password manager, on your own computer. This page lists how to export from each app, what Barside reads from each file, and how the import works.

Which apps Barside imports from

Barside matches columns by their names, not their positions, because vendors have changed their column order over time. A CSV from an app not on this list works too, as long as it has columns for the website, the username and the password.

How to export from each app

Use your app's own steps; menus change, so each step below follows the vendor's help page as of October 2026.

• 1Password 8: on Windows or Linux, the ellipsis (…) at the top of the sidebar → Export → choose the account → enter your password → CSV → Export Data. On a Mac, File > Export. Full guide: move from 1Password.
• Bitwarden: in the web app, Tools → Export → File Format: .csv. Full guide: move from Bitwarden.
• LastPass: the extension's Account tab → Fix a problem yourself > Export vault items > Export data for use anywhere. Full guide: move from LastPass.
• Dashlane: in the web app, open the Vault menu → Settings → Export data → Export to CSV. Dashlane makes a ZIP with several CSV files; pick the ZIP itself, and Barside finds credentials.csv inside.
• Proton Pass: in the browser extension, web app or Windows app, open Settings (the gear) → Export → CSV. Proton says you cannot export from its mobile apps.
• NordPass: Settings (the cog at the top left) → Import and Export → Export items → enter your master password → save the .CSV file.
• Keeper: from the account menu, Settings > Export → CSV.
• KeePassXC: Database → Export → CSV File…
• Chrome, Edge and Brave: see export Chrome passwords.
• Firefox: the Firefox menu → Passwords → the about:logins menu (…) → Export Passwords… → Continue with export.
• Apple Passwords on a Mac: File > Export All Passwords to File → Export Passwords → Save. Safari's newer File > Export Browsing Data to File makes a ZIP; pick it, and Barside finds the passwords file inside.

Every one of these vendors warns that the exported file is not encrypted. Export, import and delete it in one sitting.

How to import the file in Barside

1. Open Barside Passwords: the key icon in Barside's title bar, Passwords in the tray menu, or pw in the search bar.
2. Choose Import from another password manager.
3. Pick the CSV or ZIP file.
4. Read the summary: Import 120 logins from Dashlane, how many have two-step codes, and what is left out and why.
5. Choose Import.
6. Choose Move the file to the Recycle Bin (the Trash on Linux), then empty it.

Barside reads the file in its main process and shows the window only counts. If you import more than one file, logins merge into one vault.

What Barside imports, and what it leaves out

Barside keeps, for each website login: the website, the username, the password, a name, and the two-step code when the file has one.

It leaves out, and counts in the summary:

• Rows that are not website logins: secure notes, cards and identities. Bitwarden, Proton Pass and NordPass mark them with a type; LastPass gives notes the address http://sn.
• Logins without a website: app passwords such as android:// addresses.
• Logins without a username or password.
• KeePassXC's recycle bin: entries in a group named Recycle Bin.
• More than 10,000 logins: Barside's vault holds up to 10,000.

Notes, folders, tags, custom fields and attachments stay in the old app. When a login has several websites, Barside uses the first one.

Keep the exported file safe

The export is the most exposed your passwords will ever be: every login in plain text, in one file. A few habits keep that moment short:

• Save it to your own computer, not to a synced folder such as OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive, and never send it by email or chat.
• Import right away, in the same sitting.
• Use Barside's Move the file to the trash button, then empty the Recycle Bin or Trash.
• Delete copies in your Downloads folder and on any USB stick you used to carry the file from a Mac or another computer.

Is Barside Passwords right for you?

Barside's password manager suits one person who works on a Windows or Linux computer and wants a vault that stays there: no account, no subscription, and logins kept apart from notes, backups, sync and AI. It fills in Chrome, Brave and Edge on Windows and copies on Linux.

Stay with a cloud password manager if you need family or team sharing, a phone app, or filling inside every browser through an extension. The 1Password alternative guide compares the two approaches in detail.

Before and after the move

• Use Barside 1.50 or newer on Windows, Linux or Mac.
• Keep the old app for a week while you check that everything works.
• Run Password health → Check now after the import. It finds leaked passwords using only the first five characters of each password's hash, and lists reused passwords.
• Replace weak passwords with the password generator.

Read how Barside protects your logins, fills them and makes two-step codes in the password manager guide.