1. 1Password is SUPER expensive for what it is. You really pay for the fact that it looks nice and integrates well with mac.
2. It has no enterprise level features (This is for my organization) such as user management, access logging and fine grained roles and sharing.
1Password might be good for an individual or a small team, but it's too simple for anything beyond that.
Aren't those exactly the kind of things I'd want to pay for-- rather than opting for a cheaper solution that doesn't have those features?
I routinely use both a Ubuntu Linux laptop and a MacBook. Unfortunately 1Password does not support Linux.
And while I do use Dropbox, I like having the flexibility of switching to Google Drive. Speaking of look & feel, on Android the 1Password interface is the ugly duckling that doesn't use material design.
And back to price. At home I also have a Windows box that I sometimes use for media. My phone is an Android, but I also have an iPad. So 1Password would set me back $42 for OS X + Windows (includes the discount), about $7 for Android and another $7 for iOS. That would be $56 with the discount, or $84 without the discount. And that is expensive, I mean that's almost the price of an IntelliJ IDEA upgrade.
It's not terrible, I mean it does provide value and the price is sort of justified. But careful on the wanting to pay for things, as that's not how the world works. Do you know what happens to the farmers that invested money in the latest tractors and the seeds with the highest yield? Most are near bankruptcy, choked by loans and surviving on government subsidies. Just saying, wanting to pay for things is a sign that you've got more money than ability to spend, which is cool, but life is surprising and things change.
The lack of enterprise features is a killer though. We currently use 1Password at work, but we're evaluating LastPass and Meldium as options to switch to purely for the password sharing, access control,etc. We don't want to switch, but it's not clear there's any option if you want to manage passwords reasonably smartly among a small team.
Its auditing and logging features are excellent.
LastPass costs (or used to cost) $12/year while 1Password is $29, so if you intent to use a password manage for more than two years it's cheaper to buy 1Password than keep paying for LastPass.
And just a side note, I bought my 1Password for Windows, currently I'm using it on Windows, Linux, Mac and iOS and they all work fine. My OS X says that it's trial has expired, but it still works just fine, I can create new passwords and encrypt the old ones just fine. Maybe there are some pro features I'm not getting, but it's doing what I need it to do.
http://eduardosanchez.me/2015/01/25/1password-on-ubuntu-linu...
http://www.lucianofiandesio.com/1password-in-linux
But someone suggested Wine and I guess it works better, but this works just fine for my needs.
I don't know about that. LastPass wants $12/yr for their premium service. 1Password charged me $60 for the Windows + Mac bundle back in 2011. Other than the fact that you have to pay up front, the price seems similar.
Allowing any third party access to sensitive passwords sounds like a bad idea.
I would just like to clarify that AgileBits never gets access to your data or your Master Password. It is either stored locally on the user's machine or network or in his/her own Dropbox or iCloud account.
I'm really not keen on Dropbox syncing as there is no need for a copy to exist on the cloud
However, it would be nice to have official iOS 1Password support since I believe 1Password can leverage BTSync via API much like Dropbox for a much more seamless experience.
IE: your company makes a vault in a dropbox directory shared with employees, and multiple people just add that as a secondary vault?
conflicting changes are probably an issue though...