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If you're using a version of 1Password that's several years old and no longer updated, and also splitting your passwords across two solutions, one of which is not accessible on all your devices, I'm not too surprised that you don't enjoy the experience. The current version of 1Password is pretty much seamless for me across Linux, Mac, and iPhone. It's more seamless than it ever was before, honestly. It works for my technical needs and my parents' non-technical needs alike, and greatly simplifies tech support for the latter. I would sincerely recommend giving it a shot if you haven't already. > I'm not sure a password database is a 'online bodyguard'. If that's all 1P is, why not just spin up an SQL db yourself? Because, of course, that's not all 1P is. It's a database, a GUI (for five OSes on two architectures, plus web), extensions to auto-fill (and recognise new passwords, or changed passwords) on a range of ever-changing browsers / websites, a great deal of security hardening for their software and servers, an office full of people that evaluate and consider how to combat emerging threat models, etc. None of this is technically impossible to handle yourself, but that's an extremely inefficient allocation of most people's time. |
What initially attracted me to 1password was certainly it's browser integration features but after switching to keychain I find the 1password save login/autofill interfaces to be clunky and jarring... and the input/search interface. Those features would be hard for me to write myself, however given that 1password when they killed local vaults also switched to a resource hogging cross platform framework (electron) for it's 'native apps' at the same time.. well two straws that broke my back in that case.
My current 1password vault probably has a dozen entries, I've considered moving them to just an encrypted (doubly encrypted I guess) note inside keychain for break glass emergencies.