1Password 8 for Mac With Improved Interface, Performance, and More Now Available in Early Access

[MacRumors]

Popular password management app 1Password today previewed the "next generation" of its app, 1Password 8, featuring a more contextual user interface, redesigned menus, improved password generation, and more.

The new update is a considerable update, featuring refinements that make it easier for users to track, manage, and keep an eye on potentially vulnerable passwords. One of the first changes relates to shared password vaults, where 1Password 8 will now offer more visual representation for what passwords are being shared with who.

You'll also notice an indicator next to each shared vault, making it easier to see which vaults are private and which are shared. No guesswork. And items show who they're being shared with.

Throughout the app you're in more control, with more contextual information available at all times. Try dragging-and-dropping an item from a personal vault to a shared vault. When you do, 1Password will show you who will gain access to the item so there's no doubt about what's happening.

Taking some inspiration frm macOS Spotlight, 1Password 8 includes a more powerful search bar, allowing users to be more granular with the search terms based on tags, websites, and more. An important aspect of any good password management app is the oversight of your passwords and their vulnerabilities. 1Password 8 is promising more advanced password oversight with an improved version of Watchtower. The new version includes a new editing experience with "a powerful new password generator, smart suggestions, and simpler file attachments."

On top of front-end user refinements, 1Password is promising improved speeds with its upcoming Mac app alongside continued improvements on end-to-end encryption.

You won't see this change but you'll feel it. The app is incredibly responsive across the board, from unlocking to adding accounts to searching your items — especially when combined with native support for Apple Silicon and all the speed improvements that brings. We're talking breaking-the-warp-barrier speed.

1Password 8 for Mac is available in early access for Mac users wishing to try it out.

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[sniffies]

Apple, just buy the damn company already.

Your Keychain Access app sucks, your Passwords preference pane sucks, your Passwords Safari settings section sucks, your iOS Passwords settings section sucks.

How hard is it to build a proper full-featured app and call it Passwords???

 

[jhawk28]

They killed standalone licenses: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917

Such a stupid move.

 

[sydneysider88]

‘Improved performance’
Electron app

 

[kguay]

It doesn't support local (non 1Password.com) vaults.. 😞 A long time coming I suppose.

 

[Mick-Mac]

"Improved interface" - yes please!! Never liked the old one

 

[jcshas]

I’d be lost without this app.

 

[veggiespam]

Happily running this app, but I maxed out at version 6 with no plans on updating to 7 or 8.

 

[Blackstick]

I understand ongoing development costs, but I'm not subscribing to a password manager app. Let me spend $40 for a major feature upgrade every 4 years like in the old days.

 

[outdevo]

They killed standalone licenses: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917

Such a stupid move.

From perpetual license to perpetually paying for a license…

 

[techno-Zen]

I hate all of these apps.

I must be the only person on earth happy with iCloud keychain

 

[srbNYC]

Can't find the Safari extension. All the links take me to the App Store.

 

[kaiguy]

I owned 1password for years on Mac and PC. As soon as they moved to the expensive subscription model I bailed to Bitwarden. Couldn’t be happier. Gladly pay their premium fee since it’s reasonable ($10/yr), but their free tier is pretty darn robust. Bonus points: you can self-host.

 

[Boris Bronson]

Remember when Ben said they were never going to drop stand-alone licences?

Must be the Apple ecosystem that attracts liars and charlatans.

 

[icanhazmac]

Normally I would be with everyone who is against the subscription model but 1password is my single guilty pleasure. I loosely justify this because of the number of changes they need to account for in any given year to operating systems as well as browser revisions. I consider something like 1password as a living product versus something like MS Office which is really a static product that only needs to account for security patches and major OS changes.

 

[McG2k1]

LastPass is still working great for us. It would take a lot to switch.

 

[WeatherWeasel]

I used dashlane for quite a while and moved to 1password, costs less and sometimes it actually works with the autofill, with the exception of credit cards. Anyway. Ihope it does. when it is onboard again, I plan to install it on my wife's computer, she can remember numbers but not her passwords.

 

[LordDeath]

Like version 8 for Windows and Linux, this uses a React web frontend + a native Rust backend bundled within an Electron app: https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for-linux-d59b19143a23
It will be interesting to see how a multiplatform "Electron done right" implementation will stack up against their current native app (idling with 80 MB RAM usage here).

 

[bwoodruff]

‘Improved performance’
Electron app

Hey sydneysider88.

I understand a number of apps that are out there have used Electron as a way to ship an app quickly and without focusing on performance, which has resulted in a bad name for it. That's not what we're doing here. We are indeed using Electron for some elements of the app, but we’re strongly focused on delivering performance as a feature. The bulk of the app is written in Rust, which enables us to be much more performant than other Electron-based apps you may have used. Additional details about the layers involved in our 1Password 8 apps can be found here:
https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for-linux-d59b19143a23

One of the additional early concerns raised with Electron was that we might lose some of the tight integration with the OS that people have come to love and expect. We made sure that didn’t happen.

I'd suggest giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

- Ben, 1Password

 

[bwoodruff]

Can't find the Safari extension. All the links take me to the App Store.

Hey srbNYC. The 1Password for Safari extension is only available through the App Store at the moment.

Like version 8 for Windows and Linux, this uses a React web frontend + a native Rust backend bundled within an Electron app: https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for-linux-d59b19143a23
It will be interesting to see how a multiplatform "Electron done right" implementation will stack against their current native app (idling with 80 MB RAM usage here).

I'm sitting at 90.5 MB right now on 1Password 8, with 4 accounts and thousands of items.

- Ben, 1Password

 

[Sciomar]

I would use this if I was not in the Apple ecosystem, like relying on an Android phone for security. After iCloud keychain, there's just no need for third party apps like this.

 

[MacLawyer]

They killed standalone licenses: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comment_601917

Such a stupid move.

Seems to be the direction so many products are taking. I don’t mind subscription fees if the customer support is good. I like Dashlane for that reason. You go to any of their support portals (Reddit, website, etc.) and they answer right away.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Apple should just purchase the app how they did with carrot weather app

 

[chewbaka]

I understand opposition to the subscription model in general. But for something like a password manager, where compatibility needs constant upgrading and they are using their ecosystem to deliver your PWs securely to various devices, it makes sense. It truly is software as a service, as opposed to MS Word, which is just software.

Adobe’s and MS’s ridiculous subscription models have ruined the perception for other developers where it makes sense.

 

[fwmireault]

I would use this if I was not in the Apple ecosystem, like relying on an Android phone for security. After iCloud keychain, there's just no need for third party apps like this.

I’d agree with you but Keychain has a long way to go before having a similar user experience with other third parties solutions like 1Password. It takes too many steps to access to passwords, you can’t really customize what info is stored on the keychain an you can only store passwords, no IDs or credit card or other. I wish Apple would give a major shift forward for keychain