Apple / utilities / GENERATE STRONG PASSWORD
REVIEW
Generate Strong Password does a job iOS already does for free.
A single-purpose generator with a slider, a copy button, and a five-star rating average — which raises the question of who it is for in 2026.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Generate Strong Password
LMT DIGITAL CREATIONS
OUR SCORE
5.8
APPLE
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Generate Strong Password is the kind of app that would have made sense in 2014. A slider, four toggles, a Generate button, a Copy button. No account, no vault, no sync. You produce a random string, you paste it somewhere, you move on. As a piece of software it is honest about what it is.
The pitch lands hard against a feature Apple has shipped in every Safari and AutoFill prompt since 2018. Tap a password field marked correctly by the site and iOS offers a generated strong password right there, saves it to iCloud Keychain, and autofills it the next time you sign in. That is not a competitor to this app — it is a replacement for the entire reason to install it.
What remains is a small edge case: the form that does not trigger AutoFill, the hardware screen that wants a Wi-Fi password typed in, the moment you need a string outside the system’s reach. For that the app works. The question is whether a free ad-supported utility from an unnamed developer is the right tool to trust with the entropy that protects your accounts, when the platform already has an answer one tap away.
The pitch lands hard against a feature Apple has shipped in every Safari and AutoFill prompt since 2018.
FEATURES
The app does one thing. A length slider, toggles for uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols, a Generate button, and a one-tap copy to the clipboard. That is the entire surface area.
There is no vault, no sync, no autofill provider, no Face ID gate on the clipboard, no history of strings you've already produced. The output goes to the iOS pasteboard and from there into whatever field you were filling. If you close the app, the password is gone unless you've already pasted it somewhere durable.
Distribution is free with ads. The category is Utilities, the rating average is five stars across a small review count, and the developer lists no companion Mac, iPad-optimised, or web tool.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For a free single-purpose utility, the app does load instantly and does not ask for an account, an email, or a Sign in with Apple handshake before producing a string. That is more than can be said for half the App Store right now.
The character-class toggles work. Symbols are real symbols, not the sanitised ASCII-safe subset some generators ship. If you specifically need a 64-character string with no ambiguity between zero and capital O, you can get one in two taps.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The hard problem is that iOS already does this. Since iOS 12, every password field marked correctly in Safari and most third-party apps offers a system-generated strong password from the AutoFill prompt — saved to iCloud Keychain, synced to every Apple device you own, and autofilled the next time you need it. That is the workflow this app's output cannot match.
Beyond the platform overlap there is the question of trust. A password generator is a piece of software you have to take on faith about its entropy source, and a free ad-supported utility from an unnamed developer is a weaker faith bet than the system call sitting one prompt away. There is no published explanation of how the generator is seeded, no open source, no third-party audit.
CONCLUSION
Install this only if you specifically need a string outside an AutoFill prompt — for a non-Safari form, a hardware setup screen, or a password you intend to write down. Everyone else should let iOS do its job and pick 1Password, Bitwarden, or iCloud Keychain for the storage side of the problem. A free generator is not a password manager, and in 2026 the gap between the two matters more than the convenience of a slider.