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by Tomte 3885 days ago
I had hoped AgileBits would step up their Windows offerings.

I've recently bought the "real Windows application", since the Universal App doesn't allow to enter new logins (really?), only view existing ones.

Unfortunately, KeePass was much more useful with its Alt-A shortcut. In 1Password I need to manually copy login data from the application, since I'm using Edge and there's obviously no plugin, yet (Edge's fault).

Oh, and syncing must be a bad joke. Lots and lots of sync options, but the only one working across all platforms (iOS, Windows Phone and Windows are the ones relevant to me) is Dropbox. No OneDrive, no WLAN sync.

And don't get me started on vault management. I was using a non-synced vault without realizing it for weeks, and then I was pulling my hair out trying to sync the correct one. I finally only managed to do that by completely removing the Windows Phone app and starting from scratch.

At least they are moving everything to opvault. It was fun trying to get everything to sync, only to find out that the default vault format "agilekeychain" cannot be synced to Windows phone (or was it Windows desktop? I'm not sure).

2 comments

Hi there!

We are working on adding Teams to 1Password for Windows. Hopefully we'll have more to show for that in the not too distant future.

I also hear you on the Edge front, we're excited to see what we'll be able to do with Edge once a plugin framework is available.

As for syncing, the Windows application does support Wifi sync to iOS and Android applications, in addition to Dropbox. Between computers, you could use any sync service that syncs like Dropbox, i.e. to a folder locally and then the sync service copies the data back and forth while the data rests locally. Keep in mind though that we've only tested and can support Dropbox for this so you might run into unforeseen problems, but we do have users doing this and it seems to work for them.

That said, I am sorry for the trouble you've had. If you have any questions getting things setup you're welcome to ask questions on our support forum at https://discussions.agilebits.com. We're always happy to help users get setup and running.

I'll certainly pass your feedback along to the proper people as well.

Kyle

AgileBits

I rely upon 1pw on iOS and Mac, so I was really happy with the Windows Store version of 1pw.

It is billed as a work-in-progress, but on my terribly limited HP Stream 7 tablet (Windows 10), 1Password is no less stable than any of the other apps.

I suspected that Windows development has been delayed by the need to support iOS MDM (mobile device management) for businesses. And here we are!

I also suspect that Microsoft changes in development options - particularly "Universal apps" via HTML and Javascript - moved too fast for an indie developer to follow, at least over the past 18 months.

We actually have different teams working on each platform, mostly anyway (our iOS and Mac teams have people who rotate between the two in addition to having dedicated members for each). The drop in noticeable forward momentum (at least publicly) on all of our projects over the last several months has been due to getting Teams implemented, everything seems calm on the surface but underneath there's a lot happening.

Our Windows developers will get their day to shine soon enough as well and we hope you'll enjoy the work they've done. :)

Kyle

AgileBits