My family has purchased several copies of 1Password, including iOS (Pro), Mac, PC. Originally I purchased the Mac client before it became available in the MAS, and I recall I upgraded to the MAS version for the iCloud sync option. I have also encouraged several family and friends to purchase the app, it has become a standard in my circles! PC users in our family have been using DropBox for their sync destination.
Given the considerable investment we have already made in the apps, we are hesitant to move to a family account.
Thanks for jumping in on this forum, I use this product many times daily, and it is reassuring to see the dedication to security and transparency.
- Will AgileBits continue to update the standalone clients, or will there be an end of road for the standalone clients as happened with v3 (actually, it still works with local sync as i recall)?
- I glossed over the security paper because it focusses on Teams, is there a similar document covering the standalone clients or are the concepts similar?
First, thanks for being so willing to pay for all the various versions. This is one of the reasons why the subscription option actually came about. Users of our subscription option get all of the applications (Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android) and even allows Mac users to use our website version or the MAS version now that we've made it free with In-App Purchase just like the iOS app has been for awhile now. This sounds like it may have alleviated some of your troubles right with that.
We've stated in the past we'll continue to provide the standalone versions and we have, they're available both in the App Stores and for the Mac version on our website. We continue to push out updates to version 6, we released version 6.7 not too long ago and we're hard at work on version 6.8 now.
The security paper is the same for individuals and family accounts. The big differences between them is with regard to features mostly. Each has slightly different wording because "admin" doesn't make sense for Families, so they're called Family Managers, and there's no such thing as an admin or family manager in individual accounts. So template differences between them mostly and then features, as you'd expect the Team solution has more features targeted at businesses, and the family solution has things more focused on families.
But under the hood, all 3 solutions use the same exact underlying technology. So the white paper applies to each and every one of them from a security standpoint.