1Password Introduces $2.99/Month Plan for Individuals, With 6 Months Free at Sign-Up [Updated]

how about we pay once for things that don't need to be paid for multiple times.

Just lovely. I'm starting to wonder if we actually own anything anymore...

I’ll just use iCloud Keychain and save myself $36 a year.

MEMO TO ALL APP DEVELOPERS: I will never pay for a subscription, and if you ever change your model to a subscription one, I will stop using your app and recommend a different one to others.

Hi folks!

how about we pay once for things that don't need to be paid for multiple times.

Full disclosure: I work for AgileBits.

We do still offer standalone 1Password licenses for folks who don't want or need the benefits offered by our 1Password.com services. We do think that for most folks the subscription service will be the way to go (better disaster recovery, access to latest versions of all apps, etc) we will still sell licenses to folks who prefer to purchase that way and are comfortable managing their own syncing & storage.

Drop box works well.

No need for a subscription, unless they are planning to kill existing
'Cloud' support.

No plans like that.

Great, another "give us all your data and pay us every month" subscription.

There is absolutely no need to store all my data with you... i can just use iCloud sync for free. The only reason for these subscriptions is the $

You are certainly welcome to continue doing that, but hosting the data allows us to do a number of things that we can't with iCloud... such as sharing, web access, etc.

AgileBits will do the right thing and maintain the traditional one-off payment for version X with usually a free upgrade for version Y. If they don't, I may have to send a strongly worded email to Dave Teare who every couple of months will send me an email updating me about various happenings. I don't want to hit that unsubscribe button Dave! But don't tempt me. Dave, don't you [S]Teare[/S] dare Dave!
:D

Major upgrades for the licensed standalone products will typically have a price associated with them (e.x. going from v6 -> v7), but in-version updates are included. :)

Just lovely. I'm starting to wonder if we actually own anything anymore...

Taking my AgileBits hat off for a moment...

You generally don't "own" any software. Unless you wrote it. Then you might.

Thanks!

Ben

Great, another "give us all your data and pay us every month" subscription.

There is absolutely no need to store all my data with you... i can just use iCloud sync for free. The only reason for these subscriptions is the $

And that is fine -- we're not forcing a subscription on anyone. It is simply an option.

We continue to add improvements to both the subscription services and the standalone apps. The apps are the backbone of the service, after all.



That is the long and short of it, yes, though I will clarify that the pricing for the standalone apps is not necessarily per-device, but per-platform (with Mac and Windows bundled). So if you have two Macs you do not need to purchase two licenses, unless two different people will be using it.



The reason for the increase in price there is that we now also include 1Password for Windows with that. We no longer sell 1Password for Mac and 1Password for Windows separately. We've simplified down to one bundle license (which is less expensive than a Mac+Windows bundle license used to be).

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Ben Woodruff
Positive Experience Architect
AgileBits

I don't have a Windows PC so you are forcing me to pay for something I don't need.

This is not a pro-consumer decision by AgileBits. Stop pretending it is.

The reason for the increase in price there is that we now also include 1Password for Windows with that. We no longer sell 1Password for Mac and 1Password for Windows separately. We've simplified down to one bundle license (which is less expensive than a Mac+Windows bundle license used to be).

I don't have a Windows PC so you are forcing me to pay for something I don't need.

This is not a pro-consumer decision by AgileBits. Stop pretending it is.

LOL completely agree. It's just unfortunate that AgileBit's PR is here trying to paint a different narrative and are assuming their customers are dumb enough to not see it for what it is. It leaves me with a negative impression of their company, which kind of sucks since I've been a fan of theirs for years.

There's also no mention of how to receive the bundled Windows version when you purchase from the MAS or whether you actually receive one (not that I need a Windows version).

It's likely just them realising that hardly any of their users need both the Windows and OSX versions, and that very few people would buy both. However, they can 'bundle' them together to give "perceived" added value when in the end very few really benefits from it. Everyone who doesn't need or want both versions pay more, and AgileBits gets a nearly double the income for providing the same service to those users. I mean seriously... trying to claim the reason for bundling them together was too many support emails on the topic is laughable at best. I can only imagine that number is only a small percent of the number of people who only need one version and managed to buy 1Pass without contacting support.

So yea.... It's obviously not a money grab and it had nothing to do with realising that their customers are smart enough to look at a $35 one time buy-in for a software license (for a particular version) or $3/month or $36/year for a subscription, and laugh AgileBits right out of the room. I would imagine when the price is comparable to 2 years of a subscription, people are more likely to go with the subscription.

I used to recommend 1Password to everyone I knew who bought a Mac. I would try to talk people away from Dashlane and LastPass in MR news about those password managers since it's insane to pay for a subscription when you could get a version license of 1Pass for $35. Now, I can't in-good-conscious recommend the software to anyone at nearly double the cost.

I have been expecting this for a while so about a month ago I transferred all passwords to encrypted iOS notes and they sync across all my apple devices just fine

iCloud Keychain does the trick very well for me. It could be easier when you need to find a password on an iOS device but that happens rarely. I wish more developers implemented this in their apps...

Subscription? No effin way