1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults

The chrome extension leaves a tiny bit to be desired, but definitely still usable:

* Not as good about determining correct sign-in URL and lots of times will send me through the auth redirect from registration

* Launching sites without mouse isn't possible (shortcut exists to open extension but can't select site to launch it using arrow keys, for instance)

* Button locations aren't consistent between search view and opening it on a site you have a password on

Definitely still the best for me though. It's frustrating, though, that I don't feel like the paid plans really give me anything useful, so I'd be paying basically just to support the product (which I'm happy to do!). It's a weird spot for sure, I feel like table-stakes for a free password product is infinite devices + usable browser extension + phone apps + password generation. But figuring out what to add on top of that is always either directed at businesses or families, or things I don't care about like 2FA or an authenticator. I want to support you, damnit!

Electron apps typically don’t work for me because they don’t integrate with the rest of the system cleanly, and so once you stray off the designers’ happy path it becomes clumsy to use the app. This isn’t an esthetic or ideological argument; simply for my usage an electron app can rarely be as convenient as a native app on the Mac. Things like input integration, system service integration, selection, and responsiveness are much harder to do when you are fighting the electron abstraction, so no wonder devs leave those things out.

It's basically E2EE (where the encryption key is your master password + secret key, which looks similar to a guid), with the caveat being that 1password is still accessible via the browser so you do have to trust they're not compromising you by saving your secret key + master password separately (that is, unless you're auditing the login page every time you open it).