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

I actually don't have a problem with this, but I do have a problem with press releases that are sprayed with emojis. It's incredibly unprofessional and gives a real amateur flavor to the whole thing, which for security software is really offputting.

https://clipperz.is/ is so much cooler and free. Best of Luck 1Password.

Nah. I'm good. See ya 1password.

This makes sense to me. Lots of other products have head in the same direction over time (e.g. YNAB) for similar reasons.

SaaS is familiar to consumers and ultimately a nicer business model for most products. If you support SaaS for new customers, maintaining the old product / pricing model indefinitely eventually stops making sense. At some point you have to make a move like this.

It is probably particularly timely to do this because Lastpass recently changed their pricing model (whether deliberately aligned or not). It's no longer possible to use the free plan of Lastpass and use it on both desktop and mobile: you have to pick one or the other. For many use cases this is effectively a requirement to use the paid plan. So now 1password has the opportunity to push legacy users to a paid monthly subscription knowing that some portion who may have switched to Lastpass to avoid a monthly fee now won't be able to do so, and will probably just pay the monthly fee to 1password instead.

app.keeweb.info with drive sync... good way to go