Tool: XKCD Password Generator

Let me be honest: I built this for myself first. I kept falling into the same trap—using some variation of "password123" for things that didn't matter, and then a complicated mess with numbers and symbols for the important stuff. And I would forget that mess within a week. Reset password. Rinse. Repeat.

Then I remembered that XKCD comic about password strength—you know, the one where "correct horse battery staple" is both easy to remember and takes centuries to crack. The idea stuck, but I never found a generator that felt right. Most of them gave me weird word combinations or tried to sell me something. Or they'd bury the actual passphrase in a sea of ads for "best password manager 2025". No thanks.

What's wrong with the other options?

There are plenty of password generators out there. But they tend to fall into two camps:

• The corporate ones – they want you to install their app, create an account, and buy premium. I just want four random words.
• The overcomplicated ones – they let you pick from 17 options including "include upside-down question marks" and "use Esperanto words". I don't want to configure a password, I want it generated in one click.

And many of them don't even use a decent word list. They'll throw in "xylyl" or "qubit" and pretend that's memorable. It's not.

So what does this one do differently?

Honestly, nothing revolutionary. It does exactly what the XKCD comic suggests: picks random common words from a curated list, combines them, and gives you a passphrase. The word list is based on frequency (actual English words people know), not stuff nobody uses. You get between 4 and 6 words by default, no forced symbols unless you want them, and you can copy the result with one click.

It's also completely client-side. Nothing gets sent to a server. No tracking, no "we'll save your password for you" nonsense. The words are shuffled in your browser. That's it.

I made it because I wanted something that sat in a browser tab, gave me a few words, and got out of my way. It's for people who already know about the XKCD method and just want a clean tool that does one thing.

“The tool should do the work, not make you think about the tool.”

You can try it here—no signup, no email, no "limited time offer". Just a page that gives you a strong password.