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Comment by kalleboo | Hacker News Reader

The developer's comments on the article contradict what you're saying:

> 1Password 7 from the Mac App Store will only support our hosted service, as that’s what you’re purchasing with a 1Password membership. If you install from our website, you’ll have to option to use a standalone vault synced via iCloud if you purchase a standalone license, or use our hosted service if you purchase a 1Password membership.

> As it stands, though, how you purchase 1Password is intrinsically tied to where you store your vaults and how you sync them

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If you download 1Password through our website instead of the Mac App Store you can indeed use a subscription with standalone vaults. It isn’t the recommended configuration, as you’re paying for features you can’t use, but it is possible. We intentionally don’t talk about this in marketing as in the past it has caused a lot of confusion, particularly with less technical users. HN is obviously a different audience, and we can talk about that here.

Ben Woodruff

AgileBits

It's super frustrating how vague and contradictory they're being about this :\

I understand why they're subscription-only for the mac app store, as a way around its insane lack of pricing flexibility. Makes sense, fully support, etc. But they seem to be continually pushing the non-cloud options further and further away from visibility :|

I get the impression that anything that is not on the agilebits cloud is legacy and they will eventually stop supporting the other options bit by bit, despite what they say on HN forums.

I understand the attraction, from a software development standpoint it's much easier to make everything work well when you control the server and client software together.

This. The writing is on the wall ever since the subscription model hit. I'm holding out until stuff breaks, and then I'll transition to something open source for my very modest needs.

Late update: I asked on twitter, got an answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17115334

Subscriptions will only support cloud sync, not local.

Sorry for the confusion. This is simply incorrect and I need to hunt down who is saying otherwise and get this fixed on our end.

If you have a subscription you can create standalone vaults outside of your subscription and sync those using iCloud, Dropbox or WLAN sync if you wish.

This behaves the same in version 7 as it did in version 6.

Kyle

AgileBits

The first reply on the top comment of the official blog post says "1Password 7 from the Mac App Store will only support our hosted service" so you should probably start by correcting that...

Thanks, looking into addressing that now.

Kyle

AgileBits

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