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Count me as one of the users who are getting annoyed at 1Password’s attempts at recurrent monthly spending. In addition, while their cloud service is probably fine, the best option is to locally sync and not involve the cloud at all.

I would much rather just keep using the “local app” license, which sadly isn’t even available for sale anymore. In fact, I can’t even use my Windows license I bought back in the day.

One of these days I’ll probably just stop using 1Password and move on to something else. Are there any good free/one-time purchase locally syncable password apps that works on Mac/iOS?

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You can definitely still buy the standalone app license, but they use a pretty dark pattern to hide it. They don't really talk about it anywhere, in the forums they will just push subscriptions, and they constantly change how you get a new license.

In the past, they moved the standalone license page from 1password.com to agilebits.com, and made it purposely difficult, if not impossible to get to.

Now here's how you do it for the most recent version:

Download and install the app. When it asks you about a subscription, there is another link that you can click, but I don't remember what it says, but it should be at the bottom of the pop-up. It will take you to a checkout page where you can get a standalone license.

They'll probably change it yet again in the next major release so YMMV in the future.

Here are the direct links to buy the standalone licenses:

https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-wi...

https://1password.onfastspring.com/in-app/1password-7-for-ma...

I switched to BitWarden from LastPass and 1Password and I couldn’t be happier. You can self host if you want but you still have to pay.

bitwarden_rs is free to selfhost

I agree, the subscription pestering is annoying. They do still offer a standalone version though. I just upgraded from an ancient Windows version (4 or 5) to 1Password 7 for $49. They really avoid mentioning that the standalone exists, but just install 7 and there is a purchase option.

Well, that’s several hundred dollars of their software which I would have happily bought if they’d told me about it.

I totally agree. I understand why they push subscriptions, and they offer decent value for the subscription, but they are going too far in hiding the standalone. The hard sell is probably a net loss for them.

I use KeePass and sync the database using Google drive / dropbox.

It's free.

Actually keepass (i.e. .net app) or keepassx/keepassxc (Qt fork)?

Keepass on my work laptop (Windows). KeepassXC on my personal laptop (Manjaro Cinnamon). Keepass2Android on my smartphone. MiniKeePass on my iPad.

I've moved from dropbox to google drive for synchronizing my keepass database because of the recent changes to dropbox, where you can only sync 3 devices for free accounts.

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