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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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The 33% increase (47.88/35.88) for the "features" I don't need is too much. I will be switching to Bitwarden. I think if they increased the prices by 5% or something like that, I'd said fine, that >30% is simply not justified.

Most users don't need any of the premium features, so the point may be moot, but it's worth mentioning that bitwarden increased their premium tier prices by 100% this year (10/y to 20/y). https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-launches-enhanced-premi...

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

#42

Enshittification strikes again. For a normal user, the software seems to be getting worse and more cumbersome, and the company seems to continue focusing solely on pushing business- and enterprise-centric features that I have no use for. They'd do well to offer a non-pro type subscription for users who don't want all of that. Instead, though, I and a lot of others will simply be canceling.

I've only been using it for a couple years, but I find it has gotten better not worse for me.

It used to be really, really good on Mac, simply phenomenal, even when it was "syncing" via a dropbox folder.

Now it's more clunky, gets in fights with Apple's (admittedly much better passwords/keychain) via overlapping dialogs, and generally feels much worse.

This is going to be the impetus to move me off.

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

#44
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…

1Password used to be great for personal use and you could sync your vault with Dropbox or Synchings or whatever. I'm sad they stopped selling "forever" licenses and supporting local sync and went the SaaS route.

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

#45
post #32

Lately their Windows client has been consistently crashing for me when it tries to auto-run on a fresh boot. It always works the second time, but still, how about getting your shit together before dropping a 30% price increase.

I’ve always had fine experiences with 1Password both on iPhone and my Mac. With how bad Windows 11 is and continues to be, I wonder if your ire is misdirected. On my work computer (Windows) I’ve had a plethora of stability issues across a variety of programs/applications including ones developed by Microsoft.

Maybe, but I've found Win11 to be stable in general. Not to say there aren't issues elsewhere.

https://old.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/1bwesve/1passwor...

Seems like it's been a recurring issue for years, even on Win10.

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

#46

The email I got with individual plan went from $35.88 USD / year to $47.88 USD The new price then is $4/month. From $3/month. (So still 33% increase, similar to family plan in OP]. I found it very cheap before, which is part of what encouraged me to get it in the first place, vs trying to do something free. Would I have signed up for it originally at this price? I don't know. But it's not enough to make me switch to…

I use passwordsafe https://pwsafe.org/

Sync the file to Dropbox. Available on all my devices. 2fa protection in password safe - yubi + password.

This is probably not the most secure system in the world but I've been using it for 10+ years. And it's free.

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

#47

Anyone have suggestions for a good alternative? I've been using 1Password (family version to share some subset within the family) for more than 10 years now, but I have to say the user experience has degraded quite a bit. Anyone have a better overall alternative? (Doesn't necessarily have to be cheaper.)

Bitwarden, keepass

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

#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 would much rather they be able to be sustainable.

It likely doesn’t help that they are facing more and more free competition from Google and Apple. I know I have been considering a switch to Apple Passwords after the recent changes to it. I doubt this will excelerate it or anything because I will still want somewhere as a secondary area incase I loose access to my apple account.

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

#49
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

How do you mean? You can export your passwords from the Apple app:

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/export-passwords-iphf...

Does Apple have an Android or Windows app? Well, no, and if that's your meaning then I can see your point.

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

#50

Anyone have suggestions for a good alternative? I've been using 1Password (family version to share some subset within the family) for more than 10 years now, but I have to say the user experience has degraded quite a bit. Anyone have a better overall alternative? (Doesn't necessarily have to be cheaper.)

If you're in the Apple ecosystem, password and passkey management via iCloud is included.

Don’t lock yourself in apple ecosystem especially in such important thing as password management.
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