It has a one time buy option of $80 for “all of your devices”. I suspect, unverified, that Agilebits thinks by having servers supporting your passwords, justifies them asking for a subscription.Įnpass, has a free download, and I assume a trial period. I have accepted anti-virus subscriptions (a virus database constantly updates), and OS utilities subscriptions (if they are inexpensive enough), but a frick’n password manager? NO ******* WAY if I can avoid that. I thought I read, they broke that promise already once before, but I think am going to try them again, because philosophically I don’t like subscriptions. Now, Enpass is offering a personal lifetime license, but what does that mean, forever through each coming version of the program to accommodate OS updates? Maybe. Subscriptions just keep the money flowing into their coffers no matter what innovations they make or don’t make. Let the developer make an upgrade that is compelling enough that their customers will pay for an update. There are people who don’t update their OS every time there is a major OS update, and they are particularly screwed over by subscriptions. It would have cost me more with a subscription. But there have been some cases where I’ve had a functional program for 5+ years. I am very hostile to the idea that one day I’ll be renting all of the software I use! There are people who don’t update their OS every time there is a major OS update, and they are particularly screwed by subscriptions.Įven when you buy programs it’s not unusual to be faced with upgrades that cost money every couple of years usually associated with an OS upgrade, ie the version of the program no longer works if you upgrade your MacOS, so you pay again. So if it’s working, it could be a matter of a short period of time before it’s not. If I recall correctly it was an a MacOS version that caused me to have to upgrade 1PW the last time. I would think that if they ethical, Agilebits would leave v7 functional with the current MacOS and iOS, although Big Sur has been in existence for a while, but iOS15 is new. I do remember at some point recently, I think associated with an update, regarding 1PW, I saw a message about private vaults no longer being supported. When I check them they still appear to syncing with my Dropbox located vault. Regarding the latest with 1Password, I have 1PW v7.8.2 on both my iPad and iPhone, v7.8.8 on Catalina and I have installed iOS 15 on my iOS devices. Get into one of those and walk away with the data of thousands of people with a single heist. Your private sensitive passwords are not sitting on a server to be stolen. A good list of those who have, and this isn't even recent (read: up to the past year, as there have been even more since this list):Ĭlick to expand.The big deal is requiring a subscription if you don’t want one, and an even bigger deal is doing away with private vault support which was Agilbits onetime hallmark standard of security. SaaS (Software as a Service) providers have been hacked.What happens to your data? If you cancel, will AgileBits delete your data? How can you be sure that your data will indeed be deleted?.People say that the price shouldn't matter, but the cost of having that cheap price is you no longer have full control of your data. So you're stuck with the subscription model or nothing at all. Making that worse, is that if you download 1Password 7, you can't purchase a standalone license from that, because they disabled the servers that provision those. So 1Password 7 is the last version to allow a standalone license. Making it worse, if you have a standalone license, to use 1Password 8, you have to pay for the subscription, regardless. You can no longer purchase a standalone license. Starting with 1Password 8 for MacOS and Windows, they will only use a subscription model. See #3 and #4 as to why that is a problem. You can no longer keep the vault containing your passwords in your possession, whether that be locally on your PC or Mac, or any cloud service you choose.
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