I currently use LastPass but I'd really like to try out 1Password. Their interface and Mac support looks awesome. Unfortunately, their licensing model looks confusing and prohibitively expensive. Their password sharing model also looks confusing.
A primary requirement I have is that I need my passwords from any device. At home I have 2 Macs and a Windows thing. At work I have a couple of Windows boxes as well. I also go to my parent's place and use their computer as well. I've also got a bunch of iOS devices. It sounds like I've got to buy a license for all these devices. And it looks like if I were being legit about things, I'd have to buy 7 licenses. Maybe I could get by with a single Mac and PC license and share those between the devices, but I don't know if that's possible. The website didn't have obvious answers to these questions.
Then there's the issue of my rest of my family using 1Password on the same devices. I don't know if they need licenses. And then there's the issue of sharing the password between these devices. There's all this talk on the website about using Dropbox to share password and then there's other talk of using iCloud. Then there's the issue of upgrades. Apparently every (major) upgrade costs something. Grrrrr....
LastPass's model seems much simpler to follow (free browser plugin + optional yearly premium subscription) covers all my devices. Everything is cloud-synced. The interface is clunky, but manageable.
Maybe there's some "easy" button on the 1Password website I missed?
Hi there!
Unfortunately, their licensing model looks confusing and prohibitively expensive. Their password sharing model also looks confusing.
The licensing model is pretty straight forward actually. The desktop version is per user, per platform. Buy the Mac license, you can use it on any number of Macs you have. Buy the Windows license, you can use it on any number of Windows computers you have. The per user part is the limiting factor. You can use it with up to 6 family members in the same household. Your spouse, your kids, they can all use the same license as you so long as they live in the same house. It's not for business use though.
iOS (and MAS) follows the typical Apple model of licensing. You buy an app and it can be used by any device on the same AppleID. In the iOS case the application is free, with in-app purchase for more advanced features. Family sharing cannot be used for in-app purchases (Apple limitation) but can be used for the MAS version of the application.
The password sharing model is, admittedly, a little more complicated. The general scenario is you want a vault for yourself, so we create a primary vault to start with. Then you want to share some items with another person. We allow you to create a secondary vault (several if you wish) and you can then sync this vault to Dropbox and either via the same Dropbox account or via a Shared Dropbox folder you can share that vault with someone else. They simply open it and type in the master password and you're now sharing the data in that vault.
LastPass uses a hosted solution, so they hold your data. This does make some of the sharing features a little easier but it's because they control the data. 1Password does not hold your data so we are a bit limited by how we can do this. We're trying to give you control of the data so you know where it is and why it's there. We don't do anything the user doesn't ask us to do first, so by default no vaults sync and only upon you telling the application to sync data is that done. The control is in your hands as a result.
It's just a different way of handling things, some people will want that control and knowing that the data is in their hands. Others won't care but we feel it's important to have options like this.
In your case you'd need to buy a Mac and Windows license, and if you need the Pro features the Pro in-app purchase on the iOS side.
Since you're using Windows, Dropbox is the sync method that would work across all platforms. So, that makes it simple you can just buy the Mac and Windows license bundle from our site, that'll cover you, your family and any Mac and Windows computer that you and your family use. Please note that due to limitations with iCloud sync, only the Mac App Store version (and iOS) can sync to iCloud. Windows cannot and our website version of the Mac app cannot.
For iOS, you'd have to determine who needs Pro features and whether or not the AppleID is shared to see how many copies of the Pro features you'd need. You'd have to buy a copy for each AppleID that needs access to the Pro features.
Sharing would be a simple matter of creating a second vault, copy your items to it (Item->Share->Vault Name and copy or move it) then setup sync for that vault to Dropbox, share the folder in Dropbox or use the same Dropbox folder.
Let me know if that helps or if you have any other questions. Probably best to simply Private Message me since we're a bit off topic for this particular discussion.
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It's a little confusing as to how 1password would work to allow you to simply raise your wrist to see the password.
Does it use the phone's GPS to identify your location, and you configure the specific login/password to only display when you're in the area?
Will it show it EVERY time you raise your wrist?
Is the user using Siri to request the password?
It's an app, so you'd run the app on your Watch and you can view select items you chose to sync with the Watch. For me the big use case is seeing garage door codes, one time passwords for sites like my gmail account or github account or similar, pin codes for debit cards, etc.
Hope that helps explain things in a little more detail.
