probably my favorite open source project in years, together with Lichess. No idea why people still throw money at proprietary password managers.
- "It just works" for me and my non-tech-family
- It's only $50/year
Maybe BitWarden is just as good or better. But why take the gamble and migrate everything and everyone, when I have multiple happy 1P users for a low yearly cost?
Not paying for something because it's not free is being penny wise, pound foolish.
For a program I use every day, which is well made and has pretty good UX, the price is in line with other utilities I pay for.
The paying part is when you want to sync key-chain between device and require an iCloud subscription which start at $0,99 and bundle other features.
While I would never trust a "free service" (fremium backed with pro account/bundling is still ok AFAIC), it's still hard to consider $4/month for a syncing service cheap. It's literally the price of a cheap VPS service!
PS: From another angle if security is really your priority maybe $4 is not expensive enough. Password manager don't protect you from an hostile OS vendor and on top of that you now have to trust another entity. High levels of security require a global approach and paying more for a Password manager might provide a false sense of security.
1PW has so many more features on top of Apple’s native PW stuff it is only comparable If the basics are needed.
I've tried Bitwarden for a few days with their Firefox plug-in. During those few days there were multiple occasions were it would create a password for me, but wouldn't save the login.
I switched to 1password and it is way better in letting you know if it saved a password or not. I also ran in to some other small issues with the Bitwarden ux that made it less than ideal to use.
I want to like Bitwarden, but 1password just seems to be better at managing passwords.
I've been a BW user for years (relatively early adopter), and they are improving. At the moment I wouldn't consider anything else, for the simple reason that I could host it myself tomorrow if they went closed-source or shut down. For something like secret management, continuity planning is a must IMHO. I think they have been very good at doing things The Right Way since early days. Also 1Password always looked very Apple-focused and I'm trying to move away from that.