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1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by dongforceking »

bombcar wrote: post #76
drcongo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I stopped using 1Password for personal stuff and switched to just Apple Passwords about a year ago so I can add a little colour to what to expect. Firstly, the Apple Passwords app is slow as molasses, just really really bad. If you've got more than about 1000 items, it's almost unusable. That said, you very rarely have to use it, because password entry in Safari is perfect, and the menubar app for it doesn't have the…

Is it possible to set it to NOT require Touch ID for every single password every time?

Not to my knowledge, but if you have a paired watch, it will let you do the double-side-button-click to approve

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by al_borland »

quacker wrote: post #157
Valodim wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean they didn't increase prices in 10 years? A 2016 dollar is not the same thing as a 2026 dollar

Oh true. Considering inflation, $60 in 2016 is about $80 in 2026 so really the price has gone down in real terms. (Not actually sure about the price history of the family plan or when family was introduced. I was originally on the individual plan and it was $35 then, and switched to the family plan in 2022. I don’t think prices have changed though)

1Password 8 looks like it was released around 2022. 1Password 7, which seemed to get support until sometime in 2023 supported local vaults and syncing yourself (via Dropbox or whatever).

So it’s really only been about 3 years since people were forced to get accounts with subscriptions, and now it’s going up 33%.

I still have the zip archive of 1Password 7 in my applications folder that the v8 upgrade created. It hasn’t been very long.

From my vault, I can see I got 1Password 7 in 2018. Using 2016 as the price anchor seems generous when subscriptions weren’t required in 2016.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by al_borland »

malshe wrote: post #84
nerdjon wrote: post #48

I feel like I am really struggling to see the issue here with pricing, it is still a very cheap subscription and it does what we need it to do. And they were one of the ones that came out better in that recent security analysis of password managers. I see a lot of people upset here and I don’t get it. Did they need to increase the price? Honestly I don’t know, without seeing their financials it is hard to say. But I…

> I will still want somewhere as a secondary area incase I loose access to my apple account I'm quite content with Apple's Password app but I pay for 1Password only for the peace of mind of having a backup in case Apple ever locks my account. I will suck it up and pay the higher price.

Part of my migration plan from 1Password to Apple Passwords is making sure I have all the account recovery options possible.

I had risks with 1Password as well. If my house were to burn down, and my phone was also inside, I’d lose it all. I have offsite backups, but I need 1Password to get into them.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by al_borland »

don_neufeld wrote: post #118
morgango wrote: post #116

Completely worth it to me. It would be an incredible value at twice the price and part of my daily workflow on all machines.

Same, just excellent software that I use 100+ times per day. Quality matters in what you use constantly.

My issue is that quality has noticeably dropped over the years. I can’t justify paying more while the core functionality is getting worse. It’s been going downhill since the launch of v8. I sung its praises for many years (I’ve been using it for 18 years), but that mostly stopped after v8 was released.

I kept going with it because I thought being platform agnostic with my password manager was important. But with them taking on all these investors, watching quality drop, and now that they have everyone migrated to subscriptions… raising prices rather significantly. I’m done. I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by al_borland »

Raed667 wrote: post #27

There is no reason for this increase except the fact that they know people are too lazy to migrate away. Most of the listed features don't make any sense as core value propositions (wtf is AI-powered item naming)

I just wrote up my migration plan. This is going to be very painful.

Step 1 is deleting accounts I don’t use anymore. I did 2 of them today. One required an email, another required a phone call. Both were rather painful, but at least I was able to get them done within the day. I have 320 accounts left to go through.

I have been wanting to reign in my digital footprint, so I guess this is a good excuse, it’s just very difficult. Last year I tried to delete a PSN account (I have 2 of them). I waited on hold with Sony for 45 minutes for them to just hang up on me. I also got caught in captcha hell a few times.

I also have to be willing to let things ago. I found an old Zinio account. I assumed the company would be dead (digital magazines), but they are still going, my account still works, and I have dozens of magazines in there I purchased 15 years ago when the iPad launched. Do I keep it around just incase, or let it go… there are going to be a lot of things like this. I almost feel like I need to take time off work to deal with this.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by drcongo »

bombcar wrote: post #115
drcongo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've no idea I'm afraid, I've never tried as it's so quick and seamless to use.

On phone it's no issue to use FaceID, but my laptop and desk setup is such that I have to reach my arm over to use it. Oh, the humanity!

That sounds awful, you have my full sympathy.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by gaws »

JavaWing wrote: post #138
firefax wrote: post #107

I've had good experiences with KeePassXC. In addition to being able to store your passwords, it can ingest TOTP seeds. And finally, it's open source and cross platform. (I originally stumbled upon it because it was the only KeePass implementation that tried to look like a native MacOS app) This is a killer feature for me, since apparently iOS backups do not backup your TOTP generators in Google Authenticator, which I…

Is KeePassXC better than Bitwarden?

Bitwarden is superior, especially for syncing between desktop and mobile devices.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by gaws »

paxys wrote: post #33

It's a shame that the free/cheap password managers that regular people would use (like those by Apple, Google) seem unwilling to loosen their platform lock-in, and others like 1Password mainly target business use and are too expensive for the average joe to bother. So decades and dozens of new auth standards later we are still in a place where people use the same password on all accounts and write it down on post-its…

> It's a shame that the free/cheap password managers that regular people would use (like those by Apple, Google) seem unwilling to loosen their platform lock-in, and others like 1Password mainly target business use and are too expensive for the average joe to bother. So decades and dozens of new auth standards later we are still in a place where people use the same password on all accounts and write it down on post-its.

Bitwarden is free and easy to use.

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