Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lmedinas 2470 days ago
Sometime ago, I bought 1Password for iOS, then Mac, mostly for convenience and I was happy with it until I got no viable way to use it on Windows simply because their client still in early development sucked. After some time again they stopped caring about the local db feature and for me that was it. I Moved immediately to Keepass and never looked back. The reason was because I can find a client for nearly every platform possible and because I store MY OWN database where I want.

I prefer to store KeePass encrypted dB on Dropbox than going for 1Password cloud.

Plus Keepass is opensource...

1 comments

This is also what I do. Password managers are one of those few applications where I find it vitally important to not be subject to the whims of a particular company. Even semi-abandonware (like some things I used pre-KeePass) is preferable to an actively maintained product, if said abandonware is open source and something I can keep tweaking into working.

I also find it extremely important for my password manager to be available on EVERY platform I might use. Not just the popular ones a company can make a business case to support. Historically this has been a bigger issue than at present, but its still a big one to me.