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I have not tried the beta version of 1Password8, only read about it. I emailed their Customer Support and expressed my apprehensions. Considering how all this has happened conveniently after they got a huge VC investment makes me think the company is no longer run by the programmers with the vision.

This coming from an extremely Mac-first company it just feels like they're losing a little bit of their soul with this release. It just seems like the lazy way out and will make everyone's Macs with it installed just run a little bit worse than before.

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The Electron drama is also particularly disappointing as a long time Mac user. It doesn't look like there would be a way to select which vaults can be allowed on specific devices so in theory all of my vaults would appear on the work computers as well. Now, unless I read it all wrong, everything has to go into 1Password's cloud.

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Granted it's all protected by the same password but I just felt better not having all my credit cards, bookmarks and other personal stuff syncing to a device that I don't own. Basically my work computers only had access to my work vault and my personal computers had access to everything. I use a mix of cloud based vaults to keep my personal data separate on my work computers. The new Mac app looks really badly written (and reading their blog on how v8 came to be makes me think there was a ton of drama developing the entire platform) and the way it handles vaults is unfortunately going to make it a no-go for me. While BitWarden does let you run your own server, I don't need one when I only have two devices to keep in sync.īig 1Password fan here but the more I read about v8 the more I dislike it. I'm not going to do anything at the moment, but if version 8 ships without locally hosted vaults & syncing then I'll find another password manager that does allow those things.Įdit: After reading this thread on the 1Password forum, it sounds like I might as well start looking now.Įdit 2: After going through all the password managers in this recent review on Tom's Guide, it looks like KeePass might be the only one that lets me sync passwords directly between my laptop & iPhone without having any server or file sharing service involved. But there's no way I'm uploading my passwords to their cloud service that's a deal breaker. And I might have been willing to pay for a subscription depending on the cost - I use 1Password almost every day, so it has value to me.

I don't see moving to Electron as a positive change (no pun intended) but I was willing to keep an open mind & give it a chance. And if they don't fix the Mac experience, I'll likely go elsewhere when version 7 stops working. I'll probably keep version 7 subscription (I bought a subscription on day 1) as long as it is supported until I'm confident on where 1Password is headed. I haven't decided on what I'll do with 1Password. Oh and despite removing features, using a worse development framework, and losing their first class Mac experience.they aren't lowering the price of their subscription. Luckily those changes don't affect me personally, but it is not good for longtime users who did rely on those features.

So if you liked buying a standalone license, and/or syncing to say Dropbox/iCloud or keeping a set of logins/data only locally.you're out of luck with version 8. The other aspect of version 8 is it removes any non-1Password Cloud sync services, locally hosted vaults, and non-subscription license. It's unclear if 1Password is going to put the time/effort into making their Electron app a first class citizen of the Mac or if they will take the easy way out and just use roughly the same app you get on Windows/Linux. There has never been a first class Mac app based on Electron.

And longtime Mac users is how 1Password even became a legitimate/successful company and they are the ones who are not happy about this transition. Some people might not care about things like scrolling behavior, window resizing, fonts, memory/CPU, etc. Slack and other electron apps are terrible Mac citizens.for example, I've lost track how many times Slack causes my Mac's CPU and fans to take off. It uses far more memory and CPU, it's a security incident waiting to happen, it's accessability features are terrible, it's OS integration is often sub-par, and the look/feel never matches the target OS. They got the Mac.Įlectron is a bloated mess of a framework. If you wanted to point to a developer who got the Mac platform, utilized the technologies Apple offers to their fullest etc, 1Password was on the short list. The big uproar over this is that 1Password was the gold standard Mac app over the past decade plus.