The 1Password Disaster (And Two Brilliant 1Password Alternatives)
What’s happened to the world’s most-loved password manager?
UPDATE: WATCH MY INTERVIEW WITH 1PASSWORD HERE
“The world’s most-loved password manager,” says the 1Password website.
Meanwhile, on Reddit: “Delay 1Password 8 and unfuck it! Ditch Electron before your customer base ditches you!”
In fact, if you search Google for ‘1Password 8’, you’ll be hit with a barrage of anger-fuelled Reddit threads that are full of teeth-grinding Mac users.
Something has clearly gone very wrong indeed. And if you’re a 1Password user, you might be reading this in search of an alternative.
Let me shed some light and, hopefully, point you in the right direction.
What has happened to 1Password?
1Password is on the verge of releasing its biggest update in many years.
As explained by 1Password founder Dave Teare in a blog post about the release, 1Password 8 is “the next generation of 1Password for Mac”. He even adds a little heart-eyed emoji to the end of that sentence.
Unfortunately, that love isn’t shared by 1Password’s sizeable Mac user base.
