I don't see moving to Electron as a positive change (no pun intended) but I was willing to keep an open mind & give it a chance. And if they don't fix the Mac experience, I'll likely go elsewhere when version 7 stops working. I'll probably keep version 7 subscription (I bought a subscription on day 1) as long as it is supported until I'm confident on where 1Password is headed. I haven't decided on what I'll do with 1Password. Oh and despite removing features, using a worse development framework, and losing their first class Mac experience.they aren't lowering the price of their subscription. Luckily those changes don't affect me personally, but it is not good for longtime users who did rely on those features. So if you liked buying a standalone license, and/or syncing to say Dropbox/iCloud or keeping a set of logins/data only locally.you're out of luck with version 8.

The other aspect of version 8 is it removes any non-1Password Cloud sync services, locally hosted vaults, and non-subscription license. It's unclear if 1Password is going to put the time/effort into making their Electron app a first class citizen of the Mac or if they will take the easy way out and just use roughly the same app you get on Windows/Linux. There has never been a first class Mac app based on Electron. And longtime Mac users is how 1Password even became a legitimate/successful company and they are the ones who are not happy about this transition.

Some people might not care about things like scrolling behavior, window resizing, fonts, memory/CPU, etc. Slack and other electron apps are terrible Mac citizens.for example, I've lost track how many times Slack causes my Mac's CPU and fans to take off. It uses far more memory and CPU, it's a security incident waiting to happen, it's accessability features are terrible, it's OS integration is often sub-par, and the look/feel never matches the target OS. They got the Mac.Įlectron is a bloated mess of a framework.

If you wanted to point to a developer who got the Mac platform, utilized the technologies Apple offers to their fullest etc, 1Password was on the short list. The big uproar over this is that 1Password was the gold standard Mac app over the past decade plus.

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