{"slug": "1password", "name": "1Password", "category": "security", "category_name": "Security and passwords", "description": "Cross-platform password manager for storing passwords, passkeys, 2FA codes and secrets, sold as a subscription.", "recommenders": 30, "commenters": 66, "warners": 11, "score": 23.336, "rising": 2.13, "first": "2025-11-06", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "Liked for handling passkeys and syncing them across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux, and for easy password sharing that suits families and less technical relatives.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 31, "neutral": 25, "compare": 2, "warn": 12}, "spark": [2, 2, 2, 6, 0, 2, 1, 3, 4, 0, 4, 5], "listed": true, "loved": ["Passkey support", "Cross-platform sync"], "caveat": "Subscription pricing", "short_quote": "1password is by far my most recommended subscription to friends and family.", "icon": true, "domain": "1password.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://1password.com", "pricing": "paid", "aliases": ["1Password"], "verdict": [{"text": "Liked for handling passkeys and syncing them across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux,", "cites": [{"id": 784201264, "item_id": 49012579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012579", "by": "izacus", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I login to 1Password on another device and all passkeys are there, and usable.", "excerpt": "I login to 1Password on another device and all passkeys are there, and usable. The OSes I use where that works fine: - Android - Windows - Linux - macOS - iOS", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing passkeys across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784168384, "item_id": 49010524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010524", "by": "izacus", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The passkeys sync just fine between iOS and Android on our devices using 1Password.", "excerpt": "> That's just wrong. I use android, my partner uses ios. If he creates the passkey in safari, it's not going to get synced over to my phone. And that's just the first of the family sharing passwords issues. Same person issue is also present if somebody uses an iphone and a windows laptop, or chromebook. The passkeys sync just fine between iOS and Android on our devices using 1Password.", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing passkeys across iOS and Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 800790832, "item_id": 50049427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049427", "by": "jesse_dot_id", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password handles them beautifully.", "excerpt": "I love passkeys. 1Password handles them beautifully.", "context": "", "use_case": "storing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are a trap"}]}, {"text": " and for easy password sharing that suits families and less technical relatives.", "cites": [{"id": 754305936, "item_id": 47144121, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144121", "by": "quacker", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing", "excerpt": "My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year. I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setup and 99% hassle free. Works on my various device types (windows, mac, ios). It supports passkeys and 2FA codes. I like having shared and private vaults. I love the ability to share an auto-expiring, ", "context": "manages a family plan", "use_case": "family password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password Raising Prices ~33%"}, {"id": 752682720, "item_id": 47042670, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042670", "by": "umairnadeem123", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password Families (best UX/recovery/sharing, paid)", "excerpt": "For \u201cfamily members who struggle with tech\u201d, I\u2019d optimize for: - cross-device autofill that Just Works - account recovery you can actually manage (but not so weak it defeats the point) - sharing a small set of household logins cleanly In practice that usually means either: 1) 1Password Families (best UX/recovery/sharing, paid), or 2) Bitwarden (good balance, cheaper, can self-host if you want, but UX is a bit more fi", "context": "", "use_case": "family password sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which password manager do you use / would you recommend?"}, {"id": 801438560, "item_id": 50089910, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089910", "by": "embeng4096", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I did say I like and use 1Password", "excerpt": "Exactly. So much for TFA's \"or whatever other software of your choosing\" claim. Passkeys are a trap, trying to lock users in to the service providers. I did say I like and use 1Password, but I do remember that they switched from a one-time payment model to a subscription model, and have now stopped supporting the old software and only support their subscription software. If it wasn't for my non-tech-savvy, aging fami", "context": "supports non-tech-savvy aging family", "use_case": "family password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is the move from one-time licenses to a subscription, now with price increases,", "cites": [{"id": 804976160, "item_id": 50311010, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311010", "by": "benhurmarcel", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Most recent criticism is about either: that they switched from selling licenses to subscriptions, that they stopped supporting self-hosting", "excerpt": "Most recent criticism is about either: that they switched from selling licenses to subscriptions, that they stopped supporting self-hosting, that they use Electron, or that they financially support Omarchy/DHH.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"}, {"id": 787505793, "item_id": 49219112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219112", "by": "SanjayMehta", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they both switched to a subscription model, which is an immediate nope", "excerpt": "SuperDuper! is one of those gems which I will happily pay to upgrade every release without a second thought. 1Password used to be in that list, as was Parallels before it, but they both switched to a subscription model, which is an immediate nope. Pleasantly surprised that I qualified for a free upgrade here from 3 to 4. Good old shareware days come to mind, I miss those developers.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SupererDuperer"}, {"id": 754259552, "item_id": 47141222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141222", "by": "dyeje", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update", "excerpt": "I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update and makes me concerned they\u2019ll try to gouge me in years to come.", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}]}, {"text": " followed by an unreliable browser extension and autofill since the Electron rewrite.", "cites": [{"id": 754332368, "item_id": 47145773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145773", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m really disappointed by this. I\u2019ve been a 1Password user for 18 years. Over the last several years, since they moved to Electron for the main app, things have gotten worse and worse. The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the ex", "context": "1Password user for 18 years", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 775932720, "item_id": 48495795, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495795", "by": "indemnity", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "1Password just couldn\u2019t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings", "excerpt": "1Password? The last year with it has been so bad I canceled our $80 Family subscription and switched to the native Apple one despite its feature gap, because 1Password just couldn\u2019t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings or some other arcane dance like force killing Safari to reload the plugin).", "context": "paid for $80 family subscription", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "1Password", "story": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"}, {"id": 796078688, "item_id": 49754918, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754918", "by": "nunez", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love not needing to deal with 1Password's autofill being flakey", "excerpt": "I respectfully disagree with the author! Passkeys have been a massive quality-of-life improvement. Yes, there's the minimal risk of lockout if you lose access to the passkey (though almost every site I've used that implements pk's lays it on top of their traditional user/pass auth flow), but generally speaking most people use iCloud or their Google account to store their passkeys, and because those sync everywhere, t", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Passkey support", "summary": "Commenters say it stores passkeys well and makes them usable on every device where it is installed.", "quotes": [{"id": 800790832, "item_id": 50049427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049427", "by": "jesse_dot_id", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password handles them beautifully.", "excerpt": "I love passkeys. 1Password handles them beautifully.", "context": "", "use_case": "storing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are a trap"}, {"id": 784175152, "item_id": 49010947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010947", "by": "eigenspace", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use 1Password to manage my passkeys and they are all synced across all my authenticated devices", "excerpt": "Passkeys do *not* do that. I use 1Password to manage my passkeys and they are all synced across all my authenticated devices where I installed 1Password.", "context": "", "use_case": "managing and syncing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 801538176, "item_id": 50096136, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096136", "by": "notJim", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The 1password integration works great IME.", "excerpt": "The 1password integration works great IME. When a site supports passkeys, 1password seems to offer to save the passkey, and at login time, a little popup appears from 1password asking if I want to use my passkey, and I can either enter my password, or use TouchID to unlock 1password. I use this across iPhone, MacOS and Windows, and haven't run into any issues.", "context": "uses iPhone, MacOS and Windows", "use_case": "passkey storage across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}]}, {"label": "Cross-platform sync", "summary": "Users say it works across iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux, including between family members on different phones.", "quotes": [{"id": 784201264, "item_id": 49012579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012579", "by": "izacus", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I login to 1Password on another device and all passkeys are there, and usable.", "excerpt": "I login to 1Password on another device and all passkeys are there, and usable. The OSes I use where that works fine: - Android - Windows - Linux - macOS - iOS", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing passkeys across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784168384, "item_id": 49010524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010524", "by": "izacus", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The passkeys sync just fine between iOS and Android on our devices using 1Password.", "excerpt": "> That's just wrong. I use android, my partner uses ios. If he creates the passkey in safari, it's not going to get synced over to my phone. And that's just the first of the family sharing passwords issues. Same person issue is also present if somebody uses an iphone and a windows laptop, or chromebook. The passkeys sync just fine between iOS and Android on our devices using 1Password.", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing passkeys across iOS and Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784131136, "item_id": 49008196, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008196", "by": "rsyring", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use 1Password and just have it installed on everything.", "excerpt": "FWIW: I find passkeys to be a very simple and easy to use concept. Simple: it's like a password that I don't have to type in Easy to use: because I use 1Password and just have it installed on everything. On Android, it can be set as the default passkey provider so, even on mobile, I am using passkeys shared across devices. Is this \"less secure\" because I'm sharing the keys through 1Password. I suppose, at some level.", "context": "", "use_case": "passkeys and passwords across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}]}, {"label": "Family sharing", "summary": "Recommended for families, with shared vaults, account recovery and simple setup for less technical relatives.", "quotes": [{"id": 752682720, "item_id": 47042670, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042670", "by": "umairnadeem123", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password Families (best UX/recovery/sharing, paid)", "excerpt": "For \u201cfamily members who struggle with tech\u201d, I\u2019d optimize for: - cross-device autofill that Just Works - account recovery you can actually manage (but not so weak it defeats the point) - sharing a small set of household logins cleanly In practice that usually means either: 1) 1Password Families (best UX/recovery/sharing, paid), or 2) Bitwarden (good balance, cheaper, can self-host if you want, but UX is a bit more fi", "context": "", "use_case": "family password sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which password manager do you use / would you recommend?"}, {"id": 754305936, "item_id": 47144121, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144121", "by": "quacker", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing", "excerpt": "My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year. I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setup and 99% hassle free. Works on my various device types (windows, mac, ios). It supports passkeys and 2FA codes. I like having shared and private vaults. I love the ability to share an auto-expiring, ", "context": "manages a family plan", "use_case": "family password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password Raising Prices ~33%"}, {"id": 801438560, "item_id": 50089910, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089910", "by": "embeng4096", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I did say I like and use 1Password", "excerpt": "Exactly. So much for TFA's \"or whatever other software of your choosing\" claim. Passkeys are a trap, trying to lock users in to the service providers. I did say I like and use 1Password, but I do remember that they switched from a one-time payment model to a subscription model, and have now stopped supporting the old software and only support their subscription software. If it wasn't for my non-tech-savvy, aging fami", "context": "supports non-tech-savvy aging family", "use_case": "family password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}]}, {"label": "Polish and quality", "summary": "Several commenters call it the highest-quality product in the category and say it just works.", "quotes": [{"id": 770978880, "item_id": 48186180, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186180", "by": "kjuulh", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like 1password, it is by far the highest quality product I've used in this category.", "excerpt": "At this point it is too high of a risk to store my password elsewhere. I've been screwed over by dashlane, lastpass, potentially bitwarden now, I am with 1password now, but I've had my passwords in all these places, and I've had to change them each time, probably missing a few. I like 1password, it is by far the highest quality product I've used in this category. I moved from BitWarden back then because their browser", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "Bitwarden", "story": "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"}, {"id": 754277792, "item_id": 47142362, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142362", "by": "brendanmc6", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1password is by far my most recommended subscription to friends and family.", "excerpt": "1password is by far my most recommended subscription to friends and family. In a world where almost every single app or service I use has thrown me into a rage from enshittification or show-stopping bugs or both, where I can hardly even type this message because even iOS keyboards have regressed\u2026 1password is actually a great service that makes my life objectively better. I put them in an exclusive S-Tier with, surpr", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password Raising Prices ~33%"}, {"id": 747420929, "item_id": 46713808, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46713808", "by": "nja", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "every time I use 1Pass for work it blows me away how much better it is", "excerpt": "Has anyone migrated off of LastPass recently? How was it? I've been a user for decades, and though my frustration with them has been mounting for a long time, I've felt locked in. Migrating seems like a pain, especially for elderly relatives on my plan who will have difficulty picking up a new manager (it was hard enough for them to learn to use a manager in the first place), but every time I use 1Pass for work it bl", "context": "", "use_case": "work password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link \u2013 it's a scam"}]}, {"label": "Developer secrets", "summary": "Used to keep SSH keys, kube configs and API tokens out of plaintext files, fetched through the CLI and TouchID.", "quotes": [{"id": 804811008, "item_id": 50300688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300688", "by": "thecopy", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can tell Claude to adjust the config files to get the secrets from 1Password when they are needed with TouchID requirements", "excerpt": "I recommend everyone to move your plantext secrets from ~/.kube/config, ~/.ssh etc into a password-manager. You can tell Claude to adjust the config files to get the secrets from 1Password when they are needed with TouchID requirements etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "storing secrets", "switched_from": "", "story": "Binance-hacker-1029 \u2013 $5.6B stolen from Binance"}, {"id": 764737232, "item_id": 47796077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796077", "by": "zackify", "date": "2026-04-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd rather have them in 1password because I use too many different computers and it is perfect for that", "excerpt": "I'd rather have them in 1password because I use too many different computers and it is perfect for that and with ssh agent forwarding", "context": "uses many computers", "use_case": "storing SSH keys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip"}, {"id": 747674784, "item_id": 46729674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729674", "by": "varshith17", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All secrets in 1Password/Bitwarden with CLI", "excerpt": "Concrete setup: (1) All secrets in 1Password/Bitwarden with CLI, (2) Agent sandbox with no env var access, (3) Wrapper scripts that fetch secrets on-demand and inject at runtime, (4) Context scrubbers that strip secrets before LLM sees logs. Key insight: don't prevent agent access to secrets, prevent secrets from entering agent context/logs. Different problem, solvable with tooling.", "context": "", "use_case": "storing secrets for agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Best practice securing secrets on local machines working with agents?"}]}, {"label": "Masked email", "summary": "The Fastmail integration creates a unique masked email address when you sign up for a new account.", "quotes": [{"id": 776996641, "item_id": 48562290, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562290", "by": "Henchman21", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Their integration with 1Password to enable creation of Masked Email at account creation time is really fantastic!", "excerpt": "So I guess I'll take a moment and plug my email provider, Fastmail. Their integration with 1Password to enable creation of Masked Email at account creation time is really fantastic! I have several hundred of these at this point, it's made my digital life appreciably better. But to the point of forward-in-only -- I use the fastmail web client and iOS client. Both of these respond using the Masked Email address if you ", "context": "", "use_case": "creating masked emails", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"}, {"id": 733454833, "item_id": 45840927, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840927", "by": "sloped", "date": "2025-11-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Having 1Password be able to generate a unique email makes it a no-brainer these days.", "excerpt": "I switched to using masked emails with Fastmail primarily so I could see who sold my data. The potential security benefit was not really a driver. Having 1Password be able to generate a unique email makes it a no-brainer these days. For those services that require a username that is not your email, they can usually be used without the domain part. Works really well. I even wrote a tiny little local only web app that ", "context": "", "use_case": "generate unique masked emails", "switched_from": "", "story": "Two billion email addresses were exposed"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Subscription pricing", "summary": "Many object to the switch from paid licenses to a subscription and to recent price increases.", "quotes": [{"id": 787505793, "item_id": 49219112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219112", "by": "SanjayMehta", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they both switched to a subscription model, which is an immediate nope", "excerpt": "SuperDuper! is one of those gems which I will happily pay to upgrade every release without a second thought. 1Password used to be in that list, as was Parallels before it, but they both switched to a subscription model, which is an immediate nope. Pleasantly surprised that I qualified for a free upgrade here from 3 to 4. Good old shareware days come to mind, I miss those developers.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SupererDuperer"}, {"id": 754259552, "item_id": 47141222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141222", "by": "dyeje", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update", "excerpt": "I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update and makes me concerned they\u2019ll try to gouge me in years to come.", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 754261537, "item_id": 47141346, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141346", "by": "qubex", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They\u2019ve added a lot of \u2018functionality\u2019 but I use none of it.", "excerpt": "They\u2019ve added a lot of \u2018functionality\u2019 but I use none of it. In December I migrated everything out and into Apple\u2019s native Password manager, and cancelled my subscription to 1Password. Just in time, apparently. Subscription models need to die.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}]}, {"label": "Flaky autofill", "summary": "Commenters report that the browser extension and autofill often fail, forcing copy-paste or repeated unlocking.", "quotes": [{"id": 754332368, "item_id": 47145773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145773", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m really disappointed by this. I\u2019ve been a 1Password user for 18 years. Over the last several years, since they moved to Electron for the main app, things have gotten worse and worse. The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the ex", "context": "1Password user for 18 years", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 775932720, "item_id": 48495795, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495795", "by": "indemnity", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "1Password just couldn\u2019t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings", "excerpt": "1Password? The last year with it has been so bad I canceled our $80 Family subscription and switched to the native Apple one despite its feature gap, because 1Password just couldn\u2019t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings or some other arcane dance like force killing Safari to reload the plugin).", "context": "paid for $80 family subscription", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "1Password", "story": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"}, {"id": 796078688, "item_id": 49754918, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754918", "by": "nunez", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love not needing to deal with 1Password's autofill being flakey", "excerpt": "I respectfully disagree with the author! Passkeys have been a massive quality-of-life improvement. Yes, there's the minimal risk of lockout if you lose access to the passkey (though almost every site I've used that implements pk's lays it on top of their traditional user/pass auth flow), but generally speaking most people use iCloud or their Google account to store their passkeys, and because those sync everywhere, t", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}]}, {"label": "Electron app", "summary": "Long-time users say app quality declined after the move to Electron, with added bloat and slow animations.", "quotes": [{"id": 755181281, "item_id": 47198830, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198830", "by": "xp84", "date": "2026-02-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "since 1PW went Electron I don\u2019t see a difference in quality", "excerpt": "I switched to a product called StrongBox which is an Apple-specific app (iOS and Mac clients) that uses standard KeePass vaults. Various free clients exist which I use for my Android and Windows devices, and you can sync using either direct integration with Dropbox, OneDrive, etc, or use the device\u2019s filesystem and sync it to whatever you like that way. It supports passkeys as well and you can have your iOS devices s", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 754332368, "item_id": 47145773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145773", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m really disappointed by this. I\u2019ve been a 1Password user for 18 years. Over the last several years, since they moved to Electron for the main app, things have gotten worse and worse. The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the ex", "context": "1Password user for 18 years", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 748630288, "item_id": 46789393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46789393", "by": "tootie", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I use 1password extensively on my phone and the process of loading and unlocking involves multiple superfluous animations", "excerpt": "Animations and transitions are out of control. I use 1password extensively on my phone and the process of loading and unlocking involves multiple superfluous animations for a task I'm trying to do quickly.", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What recent UX changes make no sense to you?"}]}, {"label": "Passkey friction", "summary": "Passkey use can fail in some browsers and now requires extra password entry on desktops without TouchID.", "quotes": [{"id": 800788976, "item_id": 50049311, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049311", "by": "oefrha", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I didn\u2019t sign up for 1Password 15 years ago so that I have to enter both my very complex master password and very complex login password", "excerpt": "I\u2019m an advocate for passkeys and I abolished passwords and embraced discoverable passkeys for our org\u2019s key internal systems exclusively. So the battle cry of a title immediately put me on the defensive, unfortunately. The urge to not read is strong. A more measured title may help here. But there\u2019s definitely a kernel of truth here. 1Password recently began to enforce userVerification: required[1][2], and suddenly on", "context": "15-year user, runs an org using passkeys", "use_case": "password and passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are a trap"}, {"id": 801520992, "item_id": 50095062, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095062", "by": "Whitespace", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have passkeys in 1Password, but it's a crap shoot if I'm able to login on a device.", "excerpt": "No, you can't just use whatever passkey manager that you want. I use Safari, Chrome, MacOS, a Google Pixel phone, and 1Password. I have passkeys in 1Password, but it's a crap shoot if I'm able to login on a device. Chrome wants me to use Google Password Manager. There's no option in chrome://settings to set 1Password as my passkey manager. If I try to use a passkey to login to GitHub Chrome pops up a modal that lets ", "context": "uses Safari, Chrome, MacOS, Pixel", "use_case": "passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 801427985, "item_id": 50089249, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089249", "by": "user43928", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Brave and 1Password.", "excerpt": "I think PassKeys are great. On my MacBook with the latest macOS I still can't use them. I use Brave and 1Password. Clicking the Use Passkey button typically results in some Chrome Bluetooth permission dialog rather than accessing my PassKeys. I tried to look into this once or twice with no success. I suspect macOS is at fault. Apple does not seem to care about getting basic functionality right. To this day Universal ", "context": "MacBook user", "use_case": "password and passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}]}, {"label": "No self-hosting", "summary": "Commenters note that self-hosted and Dropbox-style sync options were dropped in favor of 1Password's own cloud sync.", "quotes": [{"id": 804976160, "item_id": 50311010, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311010", "by": "benhurmarcel", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Most recent criticism is about either: that they switched from selling licenses to subscriptions, that they stopped supporting self-hosting", "excerpt": "Most recent criticism is about either: that they switched from selling licenses to subscriptions, that they stopped supporting self-hosting, that they use Electron, or that they financially support Omarchy/DHH.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"}, {"id": 792445984, "item_id": 49527874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527874", "by": "xoa", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "plus just plain still don't like the 1P8 software itself.", "excerpt": "In our case we use both Dropbox and also have a few teams using the 1P.com sync in addition. So we value both, plus just plain still don't like the 1P8 software itself. Of course with the original Dropbox based sync, a concern is that Dropbox itself isn't set in amber, at some point it might get rug pulled and sadly 1P never introduced WebDAV or some other self-hosted option before subscription/VC fever set in. And I", "context": "runs teams using 1Password", "use_case": "password management with Dropbox sync", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: 1Password 7 final retirement notice"}]}], "who": [{"by": "notJim", "context": "uses iPhone, MacOS and Windows", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096136", "date": "2026-10-14"}, {"by": "Whitespace", "context": "uses Safari, Chrome, MacOS, Pixel", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095062", "date": "2026-10-14"}, {"by": "embeng4096", "context": "supports non-tech-savvy aging family", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089910", "date": "2026-10-14"}, {"by": "user43928", "context": "MacBook user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089249", "date": "2026-10-14"}, {"by": "dewey", "context": "Safari user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701928", "date": "2026-09-14"}, {"by": "doublepg23", "context": "Safari user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701769", "date": 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"title": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753211", "title": "I don't like passkeys", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088935", "title": "Passkeys are not a trap", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951", "title": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048312", "title": "Passkeys are a trap", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559182", "title": "1Password Replied to My Disappointment", "mentions": 3}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 6, "warn": 3}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 3, "warn": 1, "neutral": 3}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 3, "warn": 2, "compare": 1}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 10, "compare": 1, "recommend": 4, "warn": 2}, "2026-10": {"warn": 2, "recommend": 5, "neutral": 3}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804976160, "item_id": 50311010, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311010", "by": "benhurmarcel", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Most recent criticism is about either: that they switched from selling licenses to subscriptions, that they stopped supporting self-hosting", "excerpt": "Most recent criticism is about either: that they switched from selling licenses to subscriptions, that they stopped supporting self-hosting, that they use Electron, or that they financially support Omarchy/DHH.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"}, {"id": 804811008, "item_id": 50300688, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300688", "by": "thecopy", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can tell Claude to adjust the config files to get the secrets from 1Password when they are needed with TouchID requirements", "excerpt": "I recommend everyone to move your plantext secrets from ~/.kube/config, ~/.ssh etc into a password-manager. You can tell Claude to adjust the config files to get the secrets from 1Password when they are needed with TouchID requirements etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "storing secrets", "switched_from": "", "story": "Binance-hacker-1029 \u2013 $5.6B stolen from Binance"}, {"id": 801538176, "item_id": 50096136, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50096136", "by": "notJim", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The 1password integration works great IME.", "excerpt": "The 1password integration works great IME. When a site supports passkeys, 1password seems to offer to save the passkey, and at login time, a little popup appears from 1password asking if I want to use my passkey, and I can either enter my password, or use TouchID to unlock 1password. I use this across iPhone, MacOS and Windows, and haven't run into any issues.", "context": "uses iPhone, MacOS and Windows", "use_case": "passkey storage across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 801520992, "item_id": 50095062, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095062", "by": "Whitespace", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have passkeys in 1Password, but it's a crap shoot if I'm able to login on a device.", "excerpt": "No, you can't just use whatever passkey manager that you want. I use Safari, Chrome, MacOS, a Google Pixel phone, and 1Password. I have passkeys in 1Password, but it's a crap shoot if I'm able to login on a device. Chrome wants me to use Google Password Manager. There's no option in chrome://settings to set 1Password as my passkey manager. If I try to use a passkey to login to GitHub Chrome pops up a modal that lets ", "context": "uses Safari, Chrome, MacOS, Pixel", "use_case": "passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 801438560, "item_id": 50089910, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089910", "by": "embeng4096", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I did say I like and use 1Password", "excerpt": "Exactly. So much for TFA's \"or whatever other software of your choosing\" claim. Passkeys are a trap, trying to lock users in to the service providers. I did say I like and use 1Password, but I do remember that they switched from a one-time payment model to a subscription model, and have now stopped supporting the old software and only support their subscription software. If it wasn't for my non-tech-savvy, aging fami", "context": "supports non-tech-savvy aging family", "use_case": "family password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 801427985, "item_id": 50089249, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089249", "by": "user43928", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Brave and 1Password.", "excerpt": "I think PassKeys are great. On my MacBook with the latest macOS I still can't use them. I use Brave and 1Password. Clicking the Use Passkey button typically results in some Chrome Bluetooth permission dialog rather than accessing my PassKeys. I tried to look into this once or twice with no success. I suspect macOS is at fault. Apple does not seem to care about getting basic functionality right. To this day Universal ", "context": "MacBook user", "use_case": "password and passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are not a trap"}, {"id": 800852608, "item_id": 50053288, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053288", "by": "hamsterbase", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Chrome and 1Password all worked fine", "excerpt": "Does Huawei provide an Android virtual machine with Google frameworks built in? When I was traveling in Japan, I used Google Maps, and for daily use, Chrome and 1Password all worked fine. In my daily use, only three apps run in the virtual machine: 1Password, Steam, and Chrome. They all run normally, but they're a bit laggy.", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"}, {"id": 800829072, "item_id": 50051817, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051817", "by": "cheema33", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use 1password but there are others", "excerpt": "A password manager solves this problem. I use 1password but there are others, including open source solutions. Passkeys for me are by far the most convenient form of MFA-based authentication.", "context": "", "use_case": "password and passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are a trap"}, {"id": 800790832, "item_id": 50049427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049427", "by": "jesse_dot_id", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password handles them beautifully.", "excerpt": "I love passkeys. 1Password handles them beautifully.", "context": "", "use_case": "storing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are a trap"}, {"id": 800788976, "item_id": 50049311, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049311", "by": "oefrha", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I didn\u2019t sign up for 1Password 15 years ago so that I have to enter both my very complex master password and very complex login password", "excerpt": "I\u2019m an advocate for passkeys and I abolished passwords and embraced discoverable passkeys for our org\u2019s key internal systems exclusively. So the battle cry of a title immediately put me on the defensive, unfortunately. The urge to not read is strong. A more measured title may help here. But there\u2019s definitely a kernel of truth here. 1Password recently began to enforce userVerification: required[1][2], and suddenly on", "context": "15-year user, runs an org using passkeys", "use_case": "password and passkey manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys are a trap"}, {"id": 797268177, "item_id": 49829261, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829261", "by": "renat2017", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use 1Password, and I set up API keys for my agents based on their role", "excerpt": "Very nice. I use 1Password, and I set up API keys for my agents based on their role, so each agent gets the tokens it needs in its environment before I start Claude. Convenient, but definitely not secure, as the agent can see the tokens. This one is much better.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent API key storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "Agent IAP \u2013 Little Snitch Meets 1Password for AI Agents"}, {"id": 796133312, "item_id": 49758332, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758332", "by": "spider-mario", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love not needing to deal with 1Password's autofill being flakey", "excerpt": "> I love not needing to deal with 1Password's autofill being flakey and having to CMD-C/CMD-V passwords/passphrases/OTPs on these sites. But that requires that website implement support for passkeys, and is that easier than just implementing a login form that doesn\u2019t break password managers\u2019 autofill?", "context": "", "use_case": "password autofill", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}, {"id": 796131008, "item_id": 49758188, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758188", "by": "tzs", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use 1Password and Amazon does not prompt me like that.", "excerpt": "> Amazon prompts me to create a passkey everytime I log in, even when I logged in with a passkey, because my passkeys live in Bitwarden rather than my OS or browser. I use 1Password and Amazon does not prompt me like that. However I do have two passkeys for Amazon, one in 1Password and one in Apple Passwords. There's not enough data yet to say if it happens to you because of something not working right between Bitwar", "context": "", "use_case": "passkey storage", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}, {"id": 796128976, "item_id": 49758061, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758061", "by": "Grombobulous", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "my 1Password needs to have both my password (something I know) and secret key or existing logged in device", "excerpt": "I think passkeys with single auth are fine because of how they end up being stored and managed. If you use them via Windows, iOS, Android, or macOS, they are tied to the biometrics on your device. Someone has to steal your device and unlock it to get in. They have to have something you know (phone unlock password) and something you have (biometrics). In a password manager case, trust is moved from the client device t", "context": "", "use_case": "password and passkey management", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}, {"id": 796095424, "item_id": 49755964, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755964", "by": "pottertheotter", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use 1Password, but passkeys have made things even easier.", "excerpt": "I'm in the same spot. It seems like every month a post pops up here that's \"I hate passkeys\" and most of HN seems to agree. I use 1Password, but passkeys have made things even easier. I'd rather have them than any 2FA method. So many websites make me use a login/password AND then send me an email or text with a code. Every. Single. Time. You're really telling me you would rather do that than have a passkey?! And, lik", "context": "", "use_case": "password and passkey management", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}, {"id": 796078768, "item_id": 49754923, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754923", "by": "dahart", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I disable the browser and OS password managers because I use 1Password", "excerpt": "Three of those four prompts are opt-in and configurable and aren\u2019t the site\u2019s fault, no? I disable the browser and OS password managers because I use 1Password\u2026 why do you have the Chrome and OS password managers enabled if you\u2019re using 1Password? Or if there\u2019s some reason you need them all available, at least rather than dismissing the prompts, why not add an entry to disabling prompting for a specific site in the 2", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}, {"id": 796078688, "item_id": 49754918, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754918", "by": "nunez", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I love not needing to deal with 1Password's autofill being flakey", "excerpt": "I respectfully disagree with the author! Passkeys have been a massive quality-of-life improvement. Yes, there's the minimal risk of lockout if you lose access to the passkey (though almost every site I've used that implements pk's lays it on top of their traditional user/pass auth flow), but generally speaking most people use iCloud or their Google account to store their passkeys, and because those sync everywhere, t", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "I don't like passkeys"}, {"id": 795230848, "item_id": 49701928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701928", "by": "dewey", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use 1Password", "excerpt": "I use 1Password, RSS Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my \"read later\" pile. It's not a lot of them, but every time I want to test a new one I dread it.", "context": "Safari user", "use_case": "Safari password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 795228305, "item_id": 49701769, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701769", "by": "doublepg23", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password (Password Manager)", "excerpt": "On Safari I use - Wipr (Ad Blocker) - 1Password (Password Manager) - Dark Mode HN (HN dark mode hack.) Not really sure what else I need tbh", "context": "Safari user", "use_case": "Safari password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"}, {"id": 793093616, "item_id": 49568351, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568351", "by": "bicepjai", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love 1Password", "excerpt": "Moved from LastPass because of sketchy behaviour, now we have to do this again. What happens to ethics in our society :) I love 1Password, how we can share password with link, they have it on all os and browsers; works well with Fastmail and other apps. Does Proton Pass have all these and if they have how is the appX ? Thanks", "context": "", "use_case": "password sharing and syncing", "switched_from": "LastPass", "story": "1Password Replied to My Disappointment"}, {"id": 793076017, "item_id": 49567251, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567251", "by": "mplanchard", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Setup and import from 1PW was easy, took maybe 15 minutes tops.", "excerpt": "I switched to Proton Pass yesterday, since I\u2019m already a subscriber to Proton Mail. Setup and import from 1PW was easy, took maybe 15 minutes tops. So far it has been working satisfactorily enough.", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password Replied to My Disappointment"}, {"id": 793058369, "item_id": 49566148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566148", "by": "LetMeLogin", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I still have about 150 entries in 1password that say @gmail.com", "excerpt": "It's not an easy task! I had mine account since gmail beta, so much stuff is going through it. Two years ago I moved to Fastmail(they're great), and pretty much setting up an alias per site/purpose. While I'm happy to see that gmail receives less & less, I still have about 150 entries in 1password that say @gmail.com... maybe one day...", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail to end support for \"Send as\" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"}, {"id": 793031024, "item_id": 49564439, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564439", "by": "ChrisMarshallNY", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On my machine, I can also keep passkeys in 1Password.", "excerpt": "I use passkeys only, for the backend admin app for my app. They work fairly well. I use a login ID/PW to set up the passkey, then the passkey, for everything else. Passkeys work well, but I feel as if they are still a bit too \u201cfiddly\u201d for your average mensch. I\u2019m pretty sure the private key is transferable, but Apple keeps them in the Keychain, so they seem locked into the OS. On my machine, I can also keep passkeys ", "context": "developer of an app using passkeys for backend admin", "use_case": "storing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"}, {"id": 792961457, "item_id": 49560091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560091", "by": "SanjayMehta", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "compare", "quote": "1p was always a smooth and unobtrusive experience", "excerpt": "I switched to bitwarden a couple of years ago when 1password locked down on their subscription model. I don't do subscriptions, I prefer paying for upgrades which I need. Importing was truly super easy, but bitwarden has some kind of latency issue compared to 1p on the same machine and the same browser. 1p was always a smooth and unobtrusive experience, you will be extremely aware of BW's presence.", "context": "", "use_case": "password manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password Replied to My Disappointment"}, {"id": 792753712, "item_id": 49547107, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547107", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "50 is the default in 1Password", "excerpt": "Because I just auto-generate them and 50 is the default in 1Password. I rarely change default in any software I use, partly out of laziness and partly to ensure consistency across devices.", "context": "", "use_case": "auto-generating passwords", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?"}, {"id": 792445984, "item_id": 49527874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527874", "by": "xoa", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "plus just plain still don't like the 1P8 software itself.", "excerpt": "In our case we use both Dropbox and also have a few teams using the 1P.com sync in addition. So we value both, plus just plain still don't like the 1P8 software itself. Of course with the original Dropbox based sync, a concern is that Dropbox itself isn't set in amber, at some point it might get rug pulled and sadly 1P never introduced WebDAV or some other self-hosted option before subscription/VC fever set in. And I", "context": "runs teams using 1Password", "use_case": "password management with Dropbox sync", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tell HN: 1Password 7 final retirement notice"}, {"id": 792304544, "item_id": 49519034, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519034", "by": "jarym", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "What\u2019s the best real alternative to 1Password?", "excerpt": "What\u2019s the best real alternative to 1Password? I\u2019d want: Secure with sharing capability, multi device sync and nice UX", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 789405041, "item_id": 49337815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337815", "by": "curun1r", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use 1Password for personal projects", "excerpt": "The concept is fine, but I'm a big fan of doing it with mise instead. It does the exact same thing plus a lot of other things really well. The environment for a project is not just things that get stored in environment variables, it also includes specific versions of tools, common project tasks, git hooks and such. Being able to manage all of that in one place ends up being really useful. I also really like that for ", "context": "", "use_case": "secret store for personal projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng"}, {"id": 789223281, "item_id": 49326455, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326455", "by": "anabis", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Should I use 1password, or setup passkeys and TOTP separately for iOS?", "excerpt": "I standardized on Google Password Manager, so use it for banking and stuff on many machines. Should I use 1password, or setup passkeys and TOTP separately for iOS? I have no idea.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"}, {"id": 789086944, "item_id": 49317934, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317934", "by": "bukershok", "date": "2026-08-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "no need for expensive 1Password tools", "excerpt": "Hypfer, I am a security leader at the age of 42 with more than 15 years of experience in the field, and I will tell you the truth: I lead a lot of cyber incidents. The purpose of this tool is to help you and companies protect yourselves from supply chain attacks and infiltrators for free no cost, no need for expensive 1Password tools. I put my heart into this tool, so give it a try and contact me directly if you need", "context": "security leader", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext"}, {"id": 787505793, "item_id": 49219112, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219112", "by": "SanjayMehta", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they both switched to a subscription model, which is an immediate nope", "excerpt": "SuperDuper! is one of those gems which I will happily pay to upgrade every release without a second thought. 1Password used to be in that list, as was Parallels before it, but they both switched to a subscription model, which is an immediate nope. Pleasantly surprised that I qualified for a free upgrade here from 3 to 4. Good old shareware days come to mind, I miss those developers.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SupererDuperer"}, {"id": 786749922, "item_id": 49171870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171870", "by": "stilwe", "date": "2026-08-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "copy your .env file into 1Password using the 1P CLI", "excerpt": "Hey cool, a relevant place to mention my project: https://dotprot.dev/ Type \"dotprot\" to copy your .env file into 1Password using the 1P CLI, it verifies it's there, then deletes the local copy of .env. When you're ready to work again, type \"dotprot\" again to restore the .env file from 1P. There is a .prot file in the directory that you can declare other files to store in 1P as well. Varlock (https://varlock.dev ) is", "context": "", "use_case": "storing .env files", "switched_from": "", "story": "Where .env Went Wrong"}, {"id": 786579442, "item_id": 49161215, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161215", "by": "rsyring", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "But we use 1Password for secrets", "excerpt": "I recommend mise for almost everything. But we use 1Password for secrets and I have the need to mix and match environment profiles. So I built: https://github.com/level12/env-config", "context": "", "use_case": "secrets management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks"}, {"id": 784219120, "item_id": 49013695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013695", "by": "sauercrowd", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It became even more useful once I stopped insisting they have to go into 1password", "excerpt": "I used to think this but once you treat them as another path to get in they become really useful. Yes, you still have your 2fa and password, but you create a fast path in addition to it when you get in. It became even more useful once I stopped insisting they have to go into 1password", "context": "", "use_case": "storing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784201264, "item_id": 49012579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012579", "by": "izacus", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I login to 1Password on another device and all passkeys are there, and usable.", "excerpt": "I login to 1Password on another device and all passkeys are there, and usable. The OSes I use where that works fine: - Android - Windows - Linux - macOS - iOS", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing passkeys across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784175152, "item_id": 49010947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010947", "by": "eigenspace", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use 1Password to manage my passkeys and they are all synced across all my authenticated devices", "excerpt": "Passkeys do *not* do that. I use 1Password to manage my passkeys and they are all synced across all my authenticated devices where I installed 1Password.", "context": "", "use_case": "managing and syncing passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784171552, "item_id": 49010722, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010722", "by": "maples37", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use 1Password as my password manager.", "excerpt": "I'd like to try passkeys out. I actually tried again on Amazon in response to reading the comments here. But it just.... doesn't work? I'm on a laptop running Ubuntu, I use Firefox as my browser, and I use 1Password as my password manager. I have both the browser extension and native Linux application installed, and they sync/communicate with each other (so if I unlock the native Linux app, the browser extension also", "context": "Ubuntu laptop user", "use_case": "password manager and passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784168384, "item_id": 49010524, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010524", "by": "izacus", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The passkeys sync just fine between iOS and Android on our devices using 1Password.", "excerpt": "> That's just wrong. I use android, my partner uses ios. If he creates the passkey in safari, it's not going to get synced over to my phone. And that's just the first of the family sharing passwords issues. Same person issue is also present if somebody uses an iphone and a windows laptop, or chromebook. The passkeys sync just fine between iOS and Android on our devices using 1Password.", "context": "", "use_case": "syncing passkeys across iOS and Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784160817, "item_id": 49010051, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010051", "by": "malfist", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Lastpass, 1password and bitwarden all do that.", "excerpt": "This is not much simpler than they think it is. > But you're not going to lose it, because you use a password manager, and the passkey will be stored there and synchronized to all of your other devices That's just wrong. I use android, my partner uses ios. If he creates the passkey in safari, it's not going to get synced over to my phone. And that's just the first of the family sharing passwords issues. Same person i", "context": "", "use_case": "exporting passkeys", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 784131136, "item_id": 49008196, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008196", "by": "rsyring", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use 1Password and just have it installed on everything.", "excerpt": "FWIW: I find passkeys to be a very simple and easy to use concept. Simple: it's like a password that I don't have to type in Easy to use: because I use 1Password and just have it installed on everything. On Android, it can be set as the default passkey provider so, even on mobile, I am using passkeys shared across devices. Is this \"less secure\" because I'm sharing the keys through 1Password. I suppose, at some level.", "context": "", "use_case": "passkeys and passwords across devices", "switched_from": "", "story": "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"}, {"id": 775932720, "item_id": 48495795, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495795", "by": "indemnity", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "1Password just couldn\u2019t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings", "excerpt": "1Password? The last year with it has been so bad I canceled our $80 Family subscription and switched to the native Apple one despite its feature gap, because 1Password just couldn\u2019t do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings or some other arcane dance like force killing Safari to reload the plugin).", "context": "paid for $80 family subscription", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "1Password", "story": "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"}, {"id": 754332368, "item_id": 47145773, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145773", "by": "al_borland", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m really disappointed by this. I\u2019ve been a 1Password user for 18 years. Over the last several years, since they moved to Electron for the main app, things have gotten worse and worse. The browser extension doesn\u2019t work half the time. In addition to being frustrating, that makes it a less secure system, as one of the benefits is that it only fills the password on the specified domain. A lack of reliability of the ex", "context": "1Password user for 18 years", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 754305936, "item_id": 47144121, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144121", "by": "quacker", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing", "excerpt": "My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year. I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setup and 99% hassle free. Works on my various device types (windows, mac, ios). It supports passkeys and 2FA codes. I like having shared and private vaults. I love the ability to share an auto-expiring, ", "context": "manages a family plan", "use_case": "family password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password Raising Prices ~33%"}, {"id": 754259552, "item_id": 47141222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141222", "by": "dyeje", "date": "2026-02-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update", "excerpt": "I love the product but this is a really aggressive price update and makes me concerned they\u2019ll try to gouge me in years to come.", "context": "", "use_case": "password management", "switched_from": "", "story": "1Password pricing increasing 20% in March"}, {"id": 752682720, "item_id": 47042670, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042670", "by": "umairnadeem123", "date": "2026-02-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "1Password Families (best UX/recovery/sharing, paid)", "excerpt": "For \u201cfamily members who struggle with tech\u201d, I\u2019d optimize for: - cross-device autofill that Just Works - account recovery you can actually manage (but not so weak it defeats the point) - sharing a small set of household logins cleanly In practice that usually means either: 1) 1Password Families (best UX/recovery/sharing, paid), or 2) Bitwarden (good balance, cheaper, can self-host if you want, but UX is a bit more fi", "context": "", "use_case": "family password sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which password manager do you use / would you recommend?"}]}