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If you want updates, you can then pay to extend your license for another 18 months. After 18 months, you can still use the application but you no longer get updates. When you buy Bus圜al, you get free updates for 18 months. It’s the business model that Bus圜al uses. I also want to add that I think there is a payment model that makes more sense than subscriptions. However, it does not use the subscription model for payment. The only other app I’m considering is Secrets but its user-interface and features are not on par with mSecure. So, I have no idea if mSecure 6 has a login feature that’s anything close to 1Password’s.

However, buying it is a risk because I haven’t experienced mSecure’s auto login features, since, as far as I can tell, version 5 doesn’t have such a feature (there seems be no Safari extension and the link to the webpage for the Chrome extension leads to a missing page). So I may buy version 5 today before it’s too late. I also saw in these forums that if I buy version 5 now, that the premium features of version 6 will be available to me without a subscription. I don’t see why I should pay monthly for mSecure if I’m saving my data in Dropbox or iCloud. Regarding tags: I’m hoping with mSecure 6, I can import my 1Password items and that the tags will be retained (they weren’t when I imported my 1Password items into mSecure 5).īut then I saw in these forums that msecure is also migrating to a subscription model! So I’m torn and disappointed. And I just learned, from these forums, that version 6 is imminent and will have features I’ve been wanting that version 5 doesn’t seem to have: tags and auto-logins. So, I’ve been looking for an alternative to 1Password and I’ve tried a number of them. I also don’t need to have my vault saved on 1Password’s servers when Dropbox has worked just fine for me for years.

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Regarding 1Password specifically, most of the features included in the subscription version versus the standalone version are features I don’t need: 1 GB document storage (my 1Password vault is only 4.3 megabytes), 365 day item history to restore deleted passwords (I’ve never had to find a deleted password), Travel Mode to safely cross borders (not sure what this means but I’m sure I don’t need it) and password sharing (something else I’ve never needed).

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Subscriptions add up, and unless the software is adding new features every month, I think subscriptions are a rip off. But the next version, version 8, is subscription-only and I dislike paying subscriptions for software. I’ve used the standalone version the whole time and it’s met all my needs.

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I’ve been using 1Password for Mac for over 12 years. Myself I dropped Evernote for Apple Notes and never looked back. If we want to keep independent developers alive we must accept that they-just like the rest of us-can't work for free.Īnd there is a good side to subscriptions: It can make you think about if you really need those apps or if you can drop them. Which also means that you have a better chance of there actually will BE a new version. Difference is you pay per month instead of when a new version comes out.

Stacksocial enpass update#

It's no big difference from paying an update cost for a new version. The old version you can still use but it will not be updated in the future. But that is in fact the way it is for most apps that go to subscription. And if you don't really need all the extra bells and whistles that 1Password (and Dashlane and the rest) has, and you don't want to run Chromium on your computer then this is where mSecure can get new customers.Īs for the subscriptions: I too had that view before. Regardless if it is subscription or mot is costs less.

So THAT is what makes me think mSecure has a niche in the password manager universe. 1Password will only allow their own cloud solution. So as I see it, what mSecure has that 1Password in the future will lack is the possibility to save locally on your computer, and the possibility to use iCloud or Dropbox. I can't really say what the status of msecure 6 is, since I haven't received any answer to my question to re-join the beta program. And to be honest it has come a long way from the first version of the v 8 beta. I am now also beta testing v 8 of 1Password. I have a license of v 5, and earlier beta tested v6. As for a re-written app: that will also be the way the new v 6 of mSecure works, right? And also v6 will be subscription.