Honestly? My favorite is using it as my Authenticator/2FA app. I pull up a website, 1Password fills in the user-name/password, and then when the 2FA field opens, it fills that in as well.
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Lot of comments as to how bad something is for using Electron. From an end user’s view, what are the problems with Electron? And how do they manifest in 1Password for the user? Serious questions, never even heard of Electron before reading this thread, and I bow to those with far greater depth in the subject. I guess I’m looking for the Cliff Notes version of Electron for Dummies.
Are you running the Beta? I just pulled activity monitor. 1Password is using less than 300Mb (still larger than v7) and less than 0.5% of CPU.
While I am not particularly excited about the move to Electron, it has not been the disaster that was predicted.
Seriously Macrumors, don’t give AgileBits free press. With 1Password 8, they have royally screwed over their most loyal and long time users. Beyond the move to a subscription only service and forcing users to store their passwords in the 1Password cloud, 1P8 itself has so many issues as a result of it being a sh**ty Electron app. It’s a borderline travesty. What I found most disheartening is the sheer hubris of the developers, chasing profits at the cost of its most loyal users. Then again, perhaps I shouldn’t be too surprised, as at the end of the day it’s all about the money.
For those looking for a replacement password manager, I highly suggest checking out Minimalist Password Manager - http://minimalistpassword.com/. It’s not quite there yet for me, but the developer is unbelievable responsive and the app has grown leaps and bounds in a very short period of time.
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For those looking for a replacement password manager, I highly suggest checking out Minimalist Password Manager - http://minimalistpassword.com/. It’s not quite there yet for me, but the developer is unbelievable responsive and the app has grown leaps and bounds in a very short period of time.
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This is good news, thanks for the post. still, over 300 is much worse than ~80, but not nearly as bad as other electron apps I've used like teams and discord.
See that again. Bitwarden is $10 a year not $10 a month.
Check out Minimalist Password Manager - http://minimalistpassword.com/, it can import 1P’s database relatively easily.
Teams is garbage, I've said it many times on this forum. I have no idea why companies keep using that crap over Slack, but I digress. My company's management took one look at Teams (the app) and said hell no.
Discord has a lot of features but usually doesn't go over 1 GB for me even in voice calls.
BINGO! - I got rid of the spattering of others I had. All in 1Password now. Well, except for MS Authenticator. Need that for work, and use it for all MS use.
In a word, no. Did it used to be, absolutely, but with the move to an Electron app, a subscription only service, and a plethora of other questionable decisions, I’d stay far away from 1Password and AgileBits.
Electron. Barf.
Took a great, mac native app, and made it look like a crappy electron app. Bonus points for turning a lightweight efficient set of code into a bloated unstable mess.
Cross platform frameworks dumb down to the worst of all platforms.
I don't begrudge the subscription...they have to make money and fund development. But if we're being asked to fund development, then don't create a crappy UI.
Took a great, mac native app, and made it look like a crappy electron app. Bonus points for turning a lightweight efficient set of code into a bloated unstable mess.
Cross platform frameworks dumb down to the worst of all platforms.
I don't begrudge the subscription...they have to make money and fund development. But if we're being asked to fund development, then don't create a crappy UI.
Nope, it’s the 1P cloud or nothing. This has been a major source of contention with 1P, but the developers have thus far refused to budge. There is a survey going around about a self-hosting option, but something like that isn’t going to happen anytime soon (if at all).
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I found Apple Passwords to be pretty poor,. wouldn't generate complex passwords required by many sites.It looks like an Electron app.
Sad.
They took $620 million dollars in series C funding and they gave their users an electron app.
1Password Closed a $620 Million Series C Funding
1Password, a password management platform, closed a $620 million Series C funding, raising the company's valuation to $6.8 billion.thinkremote.com
So very sad.
I realized apple passwords and Secrets was enough to cover my needs.
Happy.
I don't have to deal with 1password ever again.
Priceless.
Yes. Feature set is excellent and there's a lot of good onboarding steps for new and existing users to explore the app and save more sensitive stuff in there than just their passwords (API credentials, crypto addresses, etc).
Keychain Manager is still present in Monterey. If you use iCloud Keychain then Keychain Manager simply syncs with iCloud. Save a password in Safari, it appears in Keychain Manager and within seconds is available on your iPhone or iPad. Unfortunately third party web browsers can no longer access Keychain.
Only if you use it for every site? Consider the options... maybe you just use it for all the unimportant ones? But then... how do you remember the important ones? What's your solution?
I love 1Password, I have used it for many years. I buy each new version. I like that it can stay local on my computer and sync to my phone over wifi.
I am sad to say I will have to find something else when they stop offering browser updates for version 7. I am not switching to a subscription model and not putting my data on their servers.
I am sad to say I will have to find something else when they stop offering browser updates for version 7. I am not switching to a subscription model and not putting my data on their servers.
Simple: It's no longer a native Mac app with a native UI. It's now an Electron app with an electron UI. It doesn't look, feel, operate, or function like a native Mac app - they've abandoned their largest and most loyal customer base.
It's also a bloated unstable mess. I have slack lockup hard a couple of times a week, requiring a force quit, and sometimes even a reboot. Memory usage is 10x what it is for a native app too.
I love 1Password and think the $35/year is more than worth it. Of course, if Apple started to take iCloud Keychain seriously and create a dedicated, cross-platform app things might change.
You can export from 1password and have Bitwarden get the logins and passwords.