I'm curious what features set the paid apps apart from KeePassDroid. I just started using it so have no idea about what features are good.
I do like the copy and paste to notification bar though.
To me, the gold standard in Wallet type programs is Ilium eWallet. Unfortunately, it is not available for Android, but possibly will be somewhere down the road. If you want to see what it can do, take a look at:
eWallet - Password Manager and Digital Wallet for Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows PC
KeePassDroid works fine for what it does, and if it does everything you want, then its's probably exactly what you should use. It does have the rudiments, you can define categories/folders to organize the data (and not all paid Apps do that, WalletPro is an example of one that does not), and you can add then entries that save:
- Name
- User Name
- URL (Web Address)
- Password
- Comments (Text)
So KeePassDroid will work fine, so long as those are the only things that you need to store.
The difference comes from the some of the other Apps in that they can do this sort of Web entry, that's sort of the buy-in at the poker game, plus a lot more entries for things like (this is a partial list from eWallet)
- Bank Account
- Calling Card
- Car Info
- Cellular Phone
- Clothes Sizes (!?)
- Combination Lock
- Contact
- Contact Lens Prescription
- Credit Card
- Driver's License
- eMail Account
- Emergency Numbers
- General Purpose (or Text/Blank)
- Health Numbers
- ID Card
- Insurance Policy
- Internet Settings (proxies, servers, etc.)
- Lens Prescriptions
- Library Card
- Membership Info
- Note Card
- Passport Info
- Password (essentially, this is the built-in for KeePassDroid)
- Picture Card
- Prescription
- Serial Number
- Social Security Number
- Software Serial Number
- Voice Mail Info (number, password, etc.)
- Voter Card
- Web Site
And so forth. Don't need all those cards? Nobody does, I had eWallet for years, probably didn't use 30% of them, but the point is they're there, well thought out, if you do need one. The Credit cards are actually amongst the handiest, couple of clicks and you can just read off the number, CVC, etc. Further, eWallet, WalletPro, and Secforms Lite allow you to define your own templates or Cards, should one have been left off the list.
Another differentiator is a means of backing up or sharing the data, between the phone and a PC, in some cases the web. A lot better than typing in the data all over again, if your phone is ever lost or has to be replaced.
And so forth. If eWallet were available for the Moto Droid, I'd buy it in a second. But it's not, so for now at least, you have to go with one of the alternatives. Some of the free ones are still quite good, B-Folders for instance, and Secforms Lite is free for the Android variant. Secforms Lite is the only one I'm aware of that's free and has template (card) creation ability.
If you don't mind the cross post, there's a series of evaluations out at:
Wallet app? - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum
These are Moto Droid (Android 2.0) specific, but give you some reading and more details.