I lost faith in 1Password when they forced me into the subscription model despite paying full price for the product years ago
Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
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Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#12I have been using Bitwarden for some time now. It’s an open source password manager. There are apps for all major platforms and extensions to all major browsers. Checkout https://bitwarden.com/
To be precise, their base software is Free software, licensed under the AGPLv3. The also distribute non-Free (and non-Open Source, and non-gratis) software. Their base software has an artificial limit in terms of number of users and number of 'collections', which goes contrary to the ethics of Free software.
Boo, I was looking for something that had a cli and integrated with every browser as well as had an ios app.
I've not looked again recently but lastpass is the only thing I've found that fits those bills.
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#13I have been using Bitwarden for some time now. It’s an open source password manager. There are apps for all major platforms and extensions to all major browsers. Checkout https://bitwarden.com/
To be precise, their base software is Free software, licensed under the AGPLv3. The also distribute non-Free (and non-Open Source, and non-gratis) software. Their base software has an artificial limit in terms of number of users and number of 'collections', which goes contrary to the ethics of Free software.
How can this be an issue if their base software is open source? Just recompile it with the numbers upped, surely?
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#14I’m very happy with Safari and the macOS keychain app. Indeed if apple allowed access to un-sandboxed apps I’d be happy to share with Chrome
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#15…but they will still be selling individual non-subscription licenses through their own website, so anyone who wants to avoid a subscription can still do so.
Still, this is a trend I will have nothing to do with if at all possible. And besides subscriptions, version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me. On one hand, password managers in browsers are becoming nearly good enough to cover for 80% of my use cases, and most of the other 20% boil down to convenience (ease of pasting, updating, etc.) I don't like the idea of being forced to move…
> And besides subscriptions, version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me.
What do you mean by "only sync using their back-end"?
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#16…but they will still be selling individual non-subscription licenses through their own website, so anyone who wants to avoid a subscription can still do so.
Still, this is a trend I will have nothing to do with if at all possible. And besides subscriptions, version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me. On one hand, password managers in browsers are becoming nearly good enough to cover for 80% of my use cases, and most of the other 20% boil down to convenience (ease of pasting, updating, etc.) I don't like the idea of being forced to move…
> version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me
Are you sure about this? My understanding is that they will support other places to sync, like iCloud, as in previous versions.
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#17I have been using Bitwarden for some time now. It’s an open source password manager. There are apps for all major platforms and extensions to all major browsers. Checkout https://bitwarden.com/
Interesting in that you can host your own instance of their cloud server, but I really prefer something that uses standard cloud storage mechanisms (Dropbox, iCloud, etc.) for sync and works on top of that.
Like others here, I'll probably be reevaluating my choice when it feels like it's time to upgrade. For me, some of the open source solutions are perfect as far as the underlying storage format and sync technology, but lack good browser extensions that already understand all the quirks of various sites. That's the kind of thing that a commercial product can tend to do a better job at.
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#18I've been using KeepassXC (KeePass w/ macOS GUI elements) and enjoying it. It's a little simple (you just copy and paste the PW). It doesn't do fancy autofill but there's support for pretty much every OS.
(I use Spideroak to sync the DB across devices)
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be precise, their base software is Free software, licensed under the AGPLv3. The also distribute non-Free (and non-Open Source, and non-gratis) software. Their base software has an artificial limit in terms of number of users and number of 'collections', which goes contrary to the ethics of Free software.
Boo, I was looking for something that had a cli and integrated with every browser as well as had an ios app. I've not looked again recently but lastpass is the only thing I've found that fits those bills.
Re: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still, this is a trend I will have nothing to do with if at all possible. And besides subscriptions, version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me. On one hand, password managers in browsers are becoming nearly good enough to cover for 80% of my use cases, and most of the other 20% boil down to convenience (ease of pasting, updating, etc.) I don't like the idea of being forced to move…
What alternatives do you have in mind? I was thinking the same, but haven't done much research yet. I definitely want to have more control over my passwords.
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