I’m not going to re-litigate the differences already covered in other threads. I’m just putting this in public so I will actually do it, if one thing comes to pass tomorrow.
If the Passwords app just gains a little more flexibility on the types of items it can store — heck, even just independent secure notes (ex Notes) accessible from Passwords, then I will ditch 1Password.
Because it’s just been annoying me lately. It finally stopped informing me I have already saved a password for a site it just filled in for me. But it still takes 5… whole… seconds… after I invoke a login before it actually does anything. Also, Passkeys require too many taps to be truly convenient.
I’m over it. But… I have credit cards, bank accounts, some special codes, a bunch of software licenses, and more stored in there. Passkeys, codes, and logins just doesn’t cut it as a feature set.
Also, at the height of my love for 1Password, I evangelised it so much, I pay for the family license and it’s expensive given how much it gets used (not very much) by other family members.
I have a similar conundrum but not with 1Password against Passwords, it’s with Strongbox vs Passwords (and I have the lifetime license!). The latest changes in Passwords make it a reasonably good credential manager and I could store my “secure notes” in some other place.
I switched all my family and found the transition pretty painless. I agree that other types of data would be great. For now, I use a locked note for each family member in Notes, which isn’t ideal but works. I haven’t had any issues with filling passwords, and I store all my credit cards in Safari.
For the rest of my family (including my 84 year old mother), they didn’t even notice the change!
I’m with you. I really like Passwords but it’s not quite enough to replace 1Password yet. I did a trial of it for about 3 months and moved back to 1P. The 3rd party app Access to manage my license keys and other codes helped, but it’s not as useful. It still lacks autofill with a Safari extension. The developers said it was coming and now a year later it’s still not here.
Managing additional items like license keys, identity information, credit cards, non-web related passwords, encryption keys, etc, is a big use case for me with 1Password. When I trialed the Passwords app in place of 1P, I used the Access app that is marketed as a missing link between Passwords and other more robust options like 1P.
That Access app is what is missing autofill still. I had reached out to the developer and they said it was coming, but I haven’t seen much traction on the app in the last year.
I just moved back to 1Password from Passwords. For those who use Passwords, how are you using browsers other than Safari? The Chrome extensions are awful. It’s a terrible experience on anything other than Safari.
