1Password

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I don't mind 2FA being in 1Password because the secret key is the second form of authentication. Nobody can login to my 1Password without the secret key or access to a logged-in device. My credentials can be compromised and it wouldn't matter.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-03

• “1Password's quick access window doesn't show up; if I move to the next space over I see it for a moment and then it disappears”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-28

• “a button on 1Password that was in the context menu for the extension”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-26

• “I often hit problems with 1Password's autofill on particular websites, but by and large I blame the website”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “the 1password extension was so so broken. I know it's probably not their fault, but it really got in the way every day.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “it won't let me generate the email within 1password on a website”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “1Password just couldn't do its basic job reliably (fill passwords without requiring 20 taps, constant unlocking disregarding lock timer settings or some other arcane dance like force killing Safari to reload the plugin)”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-11

• “The 1Password extension fails to fill usernames and passwords most of the time, regardless of which version I install.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “1Password gives you access to previous passwords you had for that reason”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-08

• “I am happy paying 1password for my personal secret management. Their security credibility and bona fides are well-established. I'd strongly consider them for a business contract too.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-02

• “I get the 1Password UI _and_ the native password selection UI :-/”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-25

• “it's really nice that we can move them between private and shared vaults on 1Password”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “We pay for a lot of 1Password accounts, and I couldn't imagine rolling our own solution.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “I like 1password, it is by far the highest quality product I've used in this category”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “the 1password experience is night and day better. It's just so good, it always works.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-02

• “1Password had hijacked the same keyboard shortcut that other Gnome apps use for the Emoji picker”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-30

• “safari integration is consistently flaky. It regularly keeps getting blocked in a loop telling me to unlock 1password when 1password has already been unlocked. - Passkeys are unreliable to the point of being unusable - Autofill frequently doesn't work well”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “When I quit using 1Password, it was when they dumped native apps for electron apps and quit supporting the product I'd been buying upgrades for every couple years, in order to pivot to a cloud model that lets them imposing an enterprise subscription model for enterprise users onto individuals”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-29

• “The 1Password mobile and desktop apps have such a nice UX that I'm happy copy pasting from and into it instead of having any of the browser extensions enabled.”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-23

• “none of my web browser extensions will talk with the local 1password application”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “1Password is very popular, especially for dev/pre-prod where shared vaults are more the norm. I think it will continue to grow as their Environments product matures”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “I recently migrated off 1Password and it seems to have a bunch of junk out there, including 4 year old weekly archives of all my passwords that it took for a few months for some reason. The files are encrypted, but who knows how long that will actually be good for.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-03

• “I migrated out of 1Password, which I had been using for 18 years. That was a fairly big job. The export/import did OK, but I still had to go one-by-one through 600+ entires to sure things up and fix little things.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “1Password can manage SSH agents, can inject environment variables and manage passwords/keys in the browser”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-13

• “1Password everywhere else, it is a rare day that I actually type in a password”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-06