1Password 3 Beta brings a sweet new interface and Snow Leopard support

Superb application, active forum, responsive developers - and that is vital in an area that constantly changes.

For instance, I have moved almost all my browsing from Safari to Chrome. I and many others posted in the forum, requesting that 1P support Chrome, the developers gave a detailed response, outlining what they were currently prioritizing and letting us know that Chrome is on their radar. I wish all developers worked as transparently as that.

Compare that to the scumbags behind Things, Cultured Code, who spent half a year ignoring their customers and then deleted the entire forum when too many complaints piled up.

The $40 price is unquestionably worth it - this is an app that you will use constantly throughout your computing day, allowing you to effortlessly apply the most secure standards to all your online accounts, no more weak or repeated passwords. Have you any idea how frustrating it is, how much time you'll waste and how much disruption it will cause to your family and friends if your Facebook password gets hacked? It happens a lot, that is why mine is now a 48-character, alpha-numeric, highly cryptic password, which would not be manageable without 1P.

The iPhone app allows you to access those same, securely-passworded apps from anywhere, which is pretty incredible when you think about it.

The $20 upgrade price for 1P3 is reasonable, especially when you consider how many unpaid upgrades there have been since 1P2 was first released. Anyone who seriously complains about the deal they're getting is, quite frankly, deranged.

Wow - enough heat here to melt the polar ice cap. I do not have 1Password and do not plan to change that. However, the calm and factual manner in which Carl S and David responded certainly created a very positive image of the company, and if I ever did decide to explore this kind of app, 1Password would be the first place I'd go.

I purchased 1Password with the family license thinking my whole family would be able to log into their own secure version of the program. Unfortunately, I misunderstood what was really being offered. Not the fault of the seller, but I have asked for a refund. I will post a follow-up of the refund experience.

While this won't calm down chemically unbalanced among us, take a look at Acrylic Software. Wallet is a great package, easy to configure and a robust feature set. A mac client and an iPhone client (yes, they charge for both - get over it or don't use it). Their support is responsive and they listen to the user base.

A new UI is definitely a feature of 1Password 3, but it is far, far from the most significant, or the only feature of the new version. This is why Brett linked our master changelog of new features, which is also being updated and polished in time for shipping 3.0:

http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/3_0_whats_new.html

We have 1PasswordAnywhere, support for file attachments in every item, a new tagging system, selective sync for iPhone items, the ability to edit or delete Logins, Identities, and Credit Cards right from within your browser, customizable fields for some item types, improved search, much better printing templates, and a ton of other stuff.

People sometimes fixate on the new look of an application, but that is rarely the most important aspect of an upgrade. Besides, we're the last company who will push "new shiny" as a major upgrade, and 1Password 3 is the largest upgrade in our company's history.

I hope this helps.
David Chartier
Chief Media Producer, Agile Web Solutions

i do not understand why everyone is ooh'ing and aah'ing over the new interface. for me its the worst part of version 3.0 - i'd pay for another upgrade just to get rid of it quickly. too much wasted development time spent on irrelevant areas of the product.

this also raises a very important question and one that if you're a
customer you should very seriously ask yourself - if they're pouring
so much development time into the GUI have they run out of ideas on
how to improve the core product? what kind of future does 1password
have when there is more development being done on visuals than what
you bought the app to do in the first place? when snow leopard is
slimming down, 1password is becoming bloated - just look at the size
of your keychain when web page thumbnails are enabled! if they
continue down this path it'll quickly become irrelevant and
just-another-app.

What happened to the NDA about not talking/posting about the 1Password 3 Beta?

this is what really makes me crazy...

first of all...the company made it so that if you wanted to use 1Password with Snow Leopard you were forced to buy the upgrade because they were not going to support the current product with the current operating system

then due to the uproar that kind of password kidnapping caused they seemed to change their tune...and since every mac blog is I'm sure paid off by this company NOT ONE OF THEM wrote an article about it

I mean there are pages and pages of pissed off customers complaints on their web site...and not a single Mac Blog wrote about it...and I know for a fact that they knew about it cuz I sent emails to every single one of them

and NOW I see that if I want to use this program that was held hostage over my head on my iphone I have to shell out another 5 bucks

are you kidding me...I have never and will never purchase an app from the app store that costs more than 2 bucks...it's insanity...and with the economy the way it is now I can barely keep the roof over my head

crock of crap iphone app should be free...since you can't use it unless you are a 1password customer

This is one of the best supported apps I have ever purchased. The amount of updates and meticulous attention to detail is simply inconceivable. Kudos to the team that works so diligently to keep this app on top!

1password is a really nice product, though IMO lastpass.com beats it hands down if you need cross platform support with synchronization.