Why staying with 1Password when there is Bitw.....
I use 1Password from 6 years now and have a 1Password family account.
There are plenty of similar apps on the market but one of them has let say very good arguments.
The fact that it's open-source is a big one. The fact that it's 5-6 time less expensive is another one.
I thought this forum was the good place to hear from 1Password staffs and users why 1P is still better.
PS: I don't plan to quit 1P soon! But it's always a good idea to think about what the others are doing, mostly when it's better (and open-source + cheaper is better!).
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@mickaphd - thanks for checking in. We don't make it a habit to discuss the products or business practices of competitors. Or course we're aware there are competitors out there, but our focus is on making the best password manager we can, the best one available. Related to that idea, if cost is your - or any prospective user's - sole or even primary criterion in choosing a password manager, we're not likely to be your choice. That's not just because several of the available password management options are completely free and it's tough to beat "free" on price alone, but also because it takes a great deal of work from a lot of people to keep 1Password at the head of the pack; secure, easy-to-use and responsive to the changing landscape of the technologies and the needs of our users. We price 1Password sustainably so we can continue to do that for the long haul.
Open source software has its benefits, no question. But those benefits are not as iron-clad as many people imagine. Our Chief Defender Against the Dark Arts, jpgoldberg, went on at some length about this issue in another thread, but the basic idea is this: if you've experimented with open-source software and installed some of it to check out on your Mac or PC, did you download the source code yourself and inspect it, then compile it using a compiler you've also previously inspected and know to be free from malicious code? Or did you just download a binary that was helpfully pre-compiled on the homepage of the application, and unzip or install it? If you didn't do the former, then there's no more way for you to know that the source code which is available and reviewed by the community (presumably) is the same source that was used to compile the binary you just downloaded and installed, than you do that our code is as "clean" as we say it is.
However, there are multiple independent security audits of 1Password (including SOC2), as well as ongoing bug bounty programs, all of which lead to a considerable number of eyes on various portions of our code on a nearly constant basis. You can't inspect our code directly, but others have, and will continue to do so.
At the end of the day, we encourage everyone to make the decisions about their own digital security that they believe fit best with their own unique mixture of self-assessed threat profile, UI preferences, and budget. Perhaps the biggest reason there will always be competition is that no one solution will be the best choice for all users.
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:+1: :)
Ben
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