#1password standalone license purchase for mac#

It provides a place for users to store various passwords, software licenses, and other sensitive. It's going to piss off a significant number of people, but it's what they needed to do given the choices they made a while back. 1Password is a password manager developed by AgileBits Inc.

But they went 'half-measure' for both - with 1P8 they are going full-measure. Agilebits decided years ago that they wanted to move from being a local vault Mac-first service to a cloud vault cross-platform service. Instead of ripping the plaster off, they slowly pulled it off over a number of years causing maximum pain in the process.ġP8 in general seems to be Agilebits finally deciding what they want to be in a password manager. What we've had for years is a terrible half measure of local vaults being supported but ignored for any future features.

Once they decided whether they wanted 1Password to be a local password manager or a cloud password manager, they should have gone 100% in the direction they chose.

#1password standalone license purchase for mac#

It's a sweet deal even if you don't have both OSes in your life, and sweeter yet if you dothat account will save you from having to purchase licenses for 1Password49.99 for Mac (introductory price) and. Personally, I think it's a decision that should have been done ages ago. For 3/month you get all of 1Password (including the up-to-date pro apps, always) on all of your devices, and many more benefits to boot.

Agilebits decided years ago that 1Password subscriptions were the future, and this is the natural destination of that. It is easily worth 80 as standalone software, and one would expect to pay about half. I think the writing was on the wall that they were going to do this many years ago. 1Password is one of my must have recommendations in Mac software.