Move your passwords from your browser to a password manager

How to export your passwords from Chrome, import them into Bitwarden, 1Password, or Proton Pass, and delete the unencrypted file afterward.

Key points

Browsers export your saved passwords to a CSV file, and every password manager listed here imports it.
The CSV file is not encrypted: anyone who gets it can read all your passwords. Delete it right after the import.
Bitwarden’s desktop app can also import directly from Chrome and other browsers, without a file.

Before you start

The exported file holds every saved password in plain text. 1Password advises turning off your backup software before the export, so that the file does not end up in a backup, and turning it on again after you have deleted the file.

Export from Chrome

In Chrome, open the menu, then Passwords and Autofill › Google Password Manager. You can also type chrome://password-manager/settings into the address bar.
Open Settings and choose Download file under Export passwords.
Confirm with your computer password. Chrome saves a CSV file, for example “Chrome Passwords.csv.”

Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Brave can export to a file too. Proton Pass, for example, has import guides for all of them.

Import into your password manager

Manager	How to import
Bitwarden	web app: Tools › Import, choose the file format and the file. The desktop app can also import directly from Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, and Arc
1Password	app: File › Import › Chrome, then add the file. Only passwords come over, no cards, addresses, or passkeys
Proton Pass	imports from Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Safari, and other password managers such as 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePass, Keeper, and LastPass
Keeper	see Keeper’s own import guide; this site has not checked it

Bitwarden notes that the import does not check for duplicates. If you import twice, you get every entry twice.

After the import

Check a few entries in the password manager: does the sign-in work?
Delete the CSV file, and empty the trash. Then turn your backup software on again.
Delete the passwords saved in the browser, if you want them in one place only. 1Password points out that this cannot be undone, so do it only after checking step 1.
Turn off password saving in the browser, so that it stops offering to save new passwords next to your password manager.

Next step

The guide Set up a password manager: the first half hour covers the steps around the import, from the main password to the first new passwords.

The figures in this guide come from the archive and change with every data update. As of November 13, 2026.