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. 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. 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.

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