1Password 8.0

Subscription only and no vault location besides their servers…so no DropBox or local only vaults. But the biggest loss for any competent computer security user is the complete lack of a local backup and restore capability in the users control. They use a MySQL or some other database which…maybe…gets backed up by Time Machine but the daily backup to a location of the users choice of the complete vault is gone…as is restore from that backup. Vi is totally dependent on their servers for backup and restore. They haven’t provided any detailed info about what their backup strategy is beyond …trust us…and eliminated the ability to do your own. You can export an unencrypted file but that’s it.

I did a pretty complete survey of alternatives and when/if v7 dies I’m shifting to Enpass as the best alternative.

I could live with the subscription and lousy client…but relying solely on them for backup of the most important data you have is fundamentally stupid.

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