probably my favorite open source project in years, together with Lichess. No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers.
- "It just works" for me and my non-tech-family
- It's only $50/year
Maybe BitWarden is just as good or better. But why take the gamble and migrate everything and everyone, when I have multiple happy 1P users for a low yearly cost?
The paying part is when you want to sync key-chain between device and require an iCloud subscription which start at $0,99 and bundle other features.
While I would never trust a "free service" (fremium backed with pro account/bundling is still ok AFAIC), it's still hard to consider $4/month for a syncing service cheap. It's literally the price of a cheap VPS service!
PS: From another angle if security is really your priority maybe $4 is not expensive enough. Password manager don't protect you from an hostile OS vendor and on top of that you now have to trust another entity. High levels of security require a global approach and paying more for a Password manager might provide a false sense of security.
1PW has so many more features on top of Apple’s native PW stuff it is only comparable If the basics are needed.
Not paying for something because it's not free is being penny wise, pound foolish.
For a program I use every day, which is well made and has pretty good UX, the price is in line with other utilities I pay for.
I've tried Bitwarden for a few days with their Firefox plug-in. During those few days there were multiple occasions were it would create a password for me, but wouldn't save the login.
I switched to 1password and it is way better in letting you know if it saved a password or not. I also ran in to some other small issues with the Bitwarden ux that made it less than ideal to use.
I want to like Bitwarden, but 1password just seems to be better at managing passwords.
I've been a BW user for years (relatively early adopter), and they are improving. At the moment I wouldn't consider anything else, for the simple reason that I could host it myself tomorrow if they went closed-source or shut down. For something like secret management, continuity planning is a must IMHO. I think they have been very good at doing things The Right Way since early days. Also 1Password always looked very Apple-focused and I'm trying to move away from that.