Just cancelled my subscription, which was due for renewal a few days after the change takes effect. I can live with vaults being read-only while I find a (self-hosted) alternative.
nothing better than bitwarden
1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
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Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#92Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed. Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
Bitwarden is a shit product lacking basic niceties: search is terrible (substring match is beyond first page of results), UI is sometimes non-async (typing freezes search), no way to sort by newest/date added, no way to make two note (textarea) fields, no way to expand it, consumes memory and CPU etc
However, it’s open-source, cross platform and sorta works.
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#93Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#94Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed. Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
What bugs have you encountered? It’s been flawless for me.
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#95Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed. Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
What bugs have you encountered? It’s been flawless for me.
It's been little things and mainly usability/polish things.
Sometimes the vault doesn't unlock and I have to enter in my password 2-3 times.
It doesn't always capture all information from a page properly when creating a new login and there are additional fields to capture.
The "detecting if a website supports key passes and one time password" feature for Watchtower was overwhelming with lots of information, until I clicked each one and had to ignore it.
These reasons alone are not enough for me to leave, the 3 big problems are below.
1 - I was feeling more uncomfortable having websites promote using passkeys, and I would store that in 1Password, but then I wasn't sure if 1Password as going to make it easy to migrate that stuff out. So, I want to use something open source, so I don't have to worry about losing access/managing that stuff in a propertiery/closed product. It might be easy to export/migrate out today, until something changes and they no longer allow that or make it very difficult/hard to scale/automate.
2 - I have a strong feeling this price increase is being justified by "AI" somehow. I'm sure, like all other companies, 1Password is internally forcing/requiring its developers to use coding models, and sonnet, opus, etc are expensive to use and the cost adds up. Also, I don't like the direction of where things are headed, where people are becoming more relaxed and not reviewing code properly and merging in code that will cause security issues later (perhaps openclaw fits into this bucket) or they are taking open-source code they laundering it for companies internally to use (I can't prove this, but if a model is trained on public data/code, it seems very likely). Something about that just bothers me especially when a company is worth billions of dollars.
3 - I've spent the last 3 years building up my homelab and using Pikapods for hosting various things. I want to support open-source more and run my own things and pay supporters properly to maintain things. I've always been a bit nervous what might happen if 1Password gets hacked, either because of poor security or due to a third party vendor. I still have the problem of my things getting hacked, but I pay more attention to how I secure things and use Tailscale and not publish things on the broad internet (when it makes sense). Also, I would be a hypocrite to dismiss the value of coding llms, as I'm using them myself. But how I'm using them, I'm using them to do security reviews of my docker compose files or kubernetes yaml files. Having coding llms has made it so much easier to maintain a homelab.
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#96You left out the most bizarre part of the email: > Action needed: Please go to my.1password.com/billing to register your approval. If you do not provide consent by your next renewal date on or after March 27, 2026, your subscription will automatically be cancelled at time of your next renewal Apparently you get auto-cancelled if you don't manually accept the price increase?
Wasn't mentioned on mine, either (Ohio, United States). My subscription is through in-app purchase, so I'm assuming that'll go through Apple's usual "your subscription price is increasing" flow.
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#97Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed. Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
Bitwarden is a shit product lacking basic niceties: search is terrible (substring match is beyond first page of results), UI is sometimes non-async (typing freezes search), no way to sort by newest/date added, no way to make two note (textarea) fields, no way to expand it, consumes memory and CPU etc However, it’s open-source, cross platform and sorta works.
Ah that's disappointing.
So you've just been with 1Password then? Did you try KeePass or anything else?
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#98Anyone 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.)
I'm working on an alternative that I hope would be better. https://github.com/lockstepvault-hq/lockstep (early alfa project) Would you mind sharing what user experiences are not ideal with 1Password, I'd like to know I can address those those in Lockstep.
I'd say it's mainly to do with browser/iOS plugins not being responsive. I find myself often resorting to opening the app and copying and pasting the password or other info because autofill function doesn't work on different websites.
Otherwise minor UI things like categories on the sidebar which made it easy to navigate, but they got rid of it a while back.
Good luck with your project!
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#99Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed. Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
I don't like Bitwarden UI/UX. It looks not really polished. Especially the "folders" are akward. How the implemented it, calling them labels and designing them like labels would make way more sense. But the whole UI looks like software developers - and not designers - built it.
Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
#100Yeah, pretty disappointed by this as well. The app has been getting buggier overtime and I was already considering leaving, so this was the push I needed. Seems like the most popular players in this space are Bitwarden and KeePass, does anybody have a positive or negative experience to share with either?
I don't like Bitwarden UI/UX. It looks not really polished. Especially the "folders" are akward. How the implemented it, calling them labels and designing them like labels would make way more sense. But the whole UI looks like software developers - and not designers - built it.
That makes sense.
I think I tried using it maybe 4 years ago or so, and I had the same feeling. It just felt.. awkward to use, lots of friction. I was hoping it had changed by now, but I guess that hasn't happened.