# 1Password 238 Hacker News commenters recommended 1Password and 179 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 15 years (28 owners). **Verdict:** A long-trusted password manager praised for secret-key encryption, passkey and SSH key support and family sharing; critics dislike price hikes, Electron rewrites, glitchy autofill and its enterprise focus. ## Why people recommend it - Secret key adds strong security (5 comments): "E2EE with a high entropy key as is the case with 1P will save you in the case of a compromise of your vaults stored externally" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920275)) "In 1Password you still need your secret code to login in addition to your password. It essentially acts like a second factor." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519949)) "1P made a really smart decision of having a separate password and secret key and using a PAKE to authenticate." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185963)) - Stores passkeys across devices (4 comments): "I only use pass keys by storing them in 1password. Then I don't have to worry about the whole "lose/broke/replace a device" thing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008158)) "Works fine on iOS. All my passkeys are in 1Password, and every prompt to use or save a passkey goes through 1P." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012758)) "Setting your preferred password/passkey manager on Android 17 to 1Password works fine in Chrome and Firefox" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012850)) - SSH keys and developer secrets (4 comments): "1Password can manage your SSH keys, and 1Password can/does require a password, so it's still protected with something you know + something you have." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264420)) "It does totp. It integrates with TPM in Windows hello. It does sh keys and has its own agent which is a huge help." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844165)) "I recommend everyone to move your plantext secrets from ~/.kube/config, ~/.ssh etc into a password-manager." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300688)) - Family sharing and vaults (4 comments): "let you organize passwords/TOTP/Passkeys into vaults, and you can put credentials you want to share with other family members here" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306238)) "For pure peace-of-mind managing a family and all our passwords and digtial security, it's value is far more than this monthly cost" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144237)) "1Password for Business accounts all get an additional 1Password for Families license (5 seats), so you can absolutely keep your work and personal life separate." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182270)) ## What people warn about - Chasing enterprise after VC funding (4 comments): "took VC funding and have to be a "global leader in identity security" instead of just making a damn good password manager" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141081)) "1Password lost my respect when they took on VC money and became yet another engineering playground and jobs program for (mostly JavaScript) developers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900373)) "Both started out as really excellent things for individuals and both became really awful things for individuals in their pursuit of enterprises." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942594)) - Price increases for convenience features (4 comments): "The features they're citing as justification — AI-powered item naming, faster device setup — are convenience improvements, not security improvements." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168011)) "I've been a mostly happy 1Password customer with a Family plan for quite some time. This may cause me to jump ship." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141345)) "If you do not provide consent by your next renewal date on or after March 27, 2026, your subscription will automatically be cancelled" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140087)) - Native apps replaced by Electron (3 comments): "I believe that the macOS ecosystem would have been much better if all macOS apps were written in AppKit instead of keep being rewritten into Electron" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729902)) "they dumped native apps for electron apps and quit supporting the product I'd been buying upgrades for every couple years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943260)) "1Password used to be great for personal use and you could sync your vault with Dropbox or Synchings or whatever. I'm sad they stopped selling "forever" licenses" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141162)) - Glitchy autofill and site matching (5 comments): "Extensions are glitchy, host matching is still a buggy mess, the app tries to be too clever and ends up annoying me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968608)) "I often hit problems with 1Password's autofill on particular websites, but by and large I blame the website." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676344)) "It's that second sentence which is the problem, they "suggested" by being "smart" items from one AWS domain which ought to have never suggested on another unrelated AWS domain." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552193)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Bitwarden](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitwarden.md): 278 recommend - [KeePassXC](https://hackerapproved.com/p/keepassxc.md): 131 recommend - [Vaultwarden](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vaultwarden.md): 112 recommend - [KeePass](https://hackerapproved.com/p/keepass.md): 100 recommend - [Apple Passwords](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-passwords.md): 79 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://1password.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "1Password", https://hackerapproved.com/p/1password/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).