Question(s) about 1Password 7.

@BasilFawlty,

The reason 1Password 6.8.9 tells you you're up to date is because the update server is currently configured to only offer it as an update to users that already have a 1Password.com subscription. This is because for users that are operating in standalone mode, its not a free update. There's nothing worse than an app that presents a major version as an update in the in-app updating mechanism only to reveal after updating that its not free and costs money.

To answer your questions:

1. No, you can purchase a standalone license for 7.
2. No, your version 6 license isn't valid for 7
3. Yes, you'll find that Version 6 (if in /Applications) will be zipped up as 1Password 6.zip

caveat: The Mac App Store version is not available as a standalone license purchase. If you want standalone licensing you will need to download from https://1password.com/downloads

On behalf of Rudy you’re most welcome. I’d like to expand a bit though:

• Staying on v6 is only a temporary solution. V6 is no longer being updated, so while licenses never expire if you’re updating your other software there will inevitably come a point where using v6 is no longer feasible / practical.
• While it is not possible to purchase a standalone license through the Mac App Store (which you can read about here) it is possible to purchase one through 1Password 7 for Mac when downloaded from our website. This is an in-app purchase (there is no website to purchase from).
• 1Password membership is going to be the best way forward. I’d highly recommend at least giving the trial a whirl, and suggest you reconsider. I know you’ve been using 1Password for some time, and I assume you do so because it has proven to be the best tool for you. While we do offer standalone licenses for those who want them 1Password membership is the future of 1Password. In many cases it will actually work out to be a less expensive and more easily budgeted for solution.

Ben

@BasilFawlty - I certainly understand the issues surrounding budgeting. :neutral: But I wonder if you'd be considering purchasing a standalone license for 1Password 7 for Mac. If not, then use version 6 in good health for as long as it's possible. But if that's something you ARE considering, then it may be worth your while to crunch some numbers on the cost/benefit of 1password.com membership vs standalone license purchasing. Since I don't know your answer to the first question of whether you're even considering this, I won't load you down with too much potentially irrelevant data here, but just a little bit would be this: we've had a wide swing in how often new versions of native applications get released. But moving forward, I would expect a new full version around every 18 months or so, just based on our overall goals. That's not a sure bet, but it's a good guess. Might be sooner, could be longer, depending on a variety of issues.

Anyway, the current cost of a standalone license is $64.99, while the cost of an individual 1password.com membership is $2.99/mo. At $2.99/mo, you have to hit 22 months before you would equal the cost of a standalone license, which makes the membership actually a slightly more-economical proposition, if you assume a new version every 18 months or so. If the release cycle is longer, it might swing the other way, but if other factors are considered, like if you have multiple people in a 1Password Families account, it could easily become even more economical than licenses for each person. Just some potential food for thought.

@BasilFawlty :) :+1:

@BasilFawlty,

The price is still the introductory price of $49.99, it hasn't yet transitioned to its regular price of $65.

@BasilFawlty - I'm not sure what you'd consider reasonable. As rudy mentioned, we wanted to say thank you to everyone who has supported us all these years so during the current launch period, licenses for 1Password 7 for Mac can be purchased for only $49.99, over 23% off the standard price of $64.99. Did you mean you wanted an extra discount in addition to that?

@BasilFawlty

Even your "introductory" price is $10 more than I paid for my current V6.

Sounds like you managed to grab a good deal during a sale, then! 1Password for Mac was $49.99 for several years in the past; it was only less than that during sale periods or for certain verified purchasers (educational, etc).

If you purchased 1Password 4 for Mac in 2013 for $34.99, for example, that means you did indeed enjoy the upgrade pricing we had in place for existing customers at that time, during the switchover from 1Password 3 for Mac to 1Password 4 for Mac. Unfortunately, offering that upgrade pricing for individual purchases turned out to be a time-consuming mess. We received a ton of support requests and needed to help many customers through the upgrade process. It was a huge time sink for us, wasted a lot of our customers time, and resulted in quite a lot of frustration. Not to mention the stress of seeing our inboxes at over 10,000 messages each day for months after launch.

Since 1Password 7 for Mac is our first paid upgrade in 5 years on the Mac side, that means people who upgraded from version 3 in 2013 have gotten full-version upgrades to 1Password 5 for Mac and 1Password 6 for Mac for free. We think that's pretty fair value for what people spent five years ago. So this time around, we decided to keep things simple and offer a single discount price, both as a thank-you to existing customers and an enticement to new users who were considering the standalone route, instead of trying to go the upgrade pricing route again. That allows us to focus on improving 1Password, instead of on answering tens of thousands of customer inquiries about lost licenses and specific purchase dates and a host of other issues.

Is there a "trial period" for the standalone v7? (Try before buy)

As far as trials go, there is a 30-day free trial of 1password.com, and every 1Password.com membership includes access to all four of our 1Password applications (Mac, Windows, iOS and Android). But there is no specific trial of just the 1Password for Mac app as a standalone product.

If I try it and decide I don't have a compelling need to upgrade, can I revert to v6?

If you try a 1password.com membership, you can cancel anytime before the 30 days is up, migrate your data back to standalone vaults, and return to 1Password 6 for Mac.

Do you know if v6 will still work with Mojave?

As far as I know the only significant impediment to using version 6.x of 1Password in Mojave would be if you're a Safari user. Mojave installs Safari 12 by default; it's the minimum version on the new OS. And Safari 12 no longer allows traditional Safari Extensions Gallery extensions, like the version 4.7.3.90 that is the current version for non-Safari 12/1Password 7.2 installs. If you use Chrome or Firefox, this isn't an issue, however.

If there a list somewhere of features/capabilities that V7 provides over v6? (Besides the subscription service)

You can see every feature added to or upgraded in version 7 in each update, in our version history server.

Hope that's helpful! :)