I started research with a big expectations and a lot of hope, but it looks like most of big players don't meet one of my primary goals – they all offers subscription model. Possibility to have more than one "safe". There also things that are not important for me, such as: Ability to store other type of data (notes, software keys, credit cards…) □□.Good browser support (prefferably lightweight extension) □□□.Free or standalone paid license (not subscription) □□□.Open source or otherwise trustfull developer □□□.Possibility to sync to iCloud or store data in predefined directory □□□.– I gave myself an amount of time (year or so) to perform a switch, and this post is not finished piece of writting, but will be updated in the process of researching.Īt first I thought about what are the most important features that I value in password managers and give them priorities: – Your priorities may be different than mine. – It is great if you are happy with 1Password, I don't want to convince anyone to switch. This post is a documentation of serching for the new holy grail, and I believe it can help you if you also considering a change. This is another trend that, midly saying, I dislike, and another topic to elaborate.īut this belief and my attachment to iCloud syncing help me to make decision to switch to another piece of software. In this time it also turned out that new release was rewritten, and from native, award-winning mac app 1Password turns to Electron-baked multiplatform app. Personally, I consider subscription model of software as harmfull for users, but this is topic for another post. After couple of minutes everything becames clear – 1Pasword will cancel standalone licenses and becomes subscription only software. I don't have an account… Is new sersion subscription only?" – I tought and switched back to Twitter to ask company about it. At first I was happy to see new version, and eger to give it a try! But after installation there was screen that ask me to login… "hmm. Last days I saw announcement on Twitter about public preview of new big release for password manager that was my tool of choice for a lot of years – 1Password 8.
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