Review: 1Password best Mac password manager around
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 23, 2008 at 6:33am
How many passwords do you have to keep track of? I have, at last count, approximately one kazillion. If you’re in the same boat, you’ll appreciate Agile Web Solutions’ 1Password, the best password manager for the Mac that I’ve tried.
1Password browser extensions support Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, NetNewsWire, Netscape Navigator, and Flock (yes, Flock). All browser extensions share the data stored in the keychain which means you never need to manually copy your passwords between browsers or from the password. The newest version of 1Password, 2.5.8, integrates directly into the Firefox 3, beta 2. This means Firefox 3 users can now save their web form data directly in the browser, as well as fill out credit card information with a single click.
1Password is easy to use and has a variety of useful features. It provides anti-phishing protection and web form filling and automatic strong password generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by the Keychain app that comes with Mac OS X. The app also prevents keylogging since you’re not typing.
1Password costs US$29.95 for a single user license is US$29.95. A family license is available for $39.95. 1Password requires Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or 10.5 (“Leopard”). The software is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.
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jmc54 Says:
i’ve used web confidential for awhile, works well but does not have the integration 1password does so i plan on trying it out
Posted on January 23, 2008
Joe Says:
I use Password Gorilla - and while the interface for the Mac leaves a little to be desired, it’s cross platform and that makes it the best for my needs.
Posted on January 23, 2008
David Stempnakowski Says:
I’ve looked into 1password, but I also needed something that I could take with me. I had been using Splash ID Desktop, but since I ditched my Palm 515, I’ve started toting around an iPod Nano (3G) and using Wallet (http://waterfallsw.com/wallet). There is a lot of room for improvement with Wallet, and it won’t fill in passwords automatically for you in your web browser, but it will let you keep track of all of them and also let you copy them to an iPod so you can take them with you.
Posted on January 23, 2008
Jamie Khann Says:
I like 1password, but for me, though less fully featured, Yojimbo better suits my needs. There are plenty of websites that I don’t want 1Password to recall the password of, sensitive sites. Sites that I don’t want someone visiting the site on my computer to even know I visit. Initially, that seems fine. Just click ‘never save password for this site’. On the face of things, that seems great. Later on though I realised that going to the preferences pane within 1password (which you don’t need a password to access) you can immediately see the sites a user has ‘exempted’ from having saved. Bit of a give away if you ask me. For this lack of privacy/security, I stick with the simpler Yojimbo.
Posted on January 23, 2008
Philby Says:
After having used Web Confidential for ages, I’m using SecretBook myself currently, and find it pretty nifty. It’s quite extensible, flexible enough for me, and speedy, though it does not offer the integration that 1password has.
Posted on January 23, 2008
ROSSCO Says:
I switched from SplashID to 1Passwd and ditched my Palm T2. I have an iPhone now and the 1Passwd data syncs to the iPhone as a Safari bookmark. It works. It’s light years better than SplashID.
Posted on January 23, 2008
Frimpler Says:
PasswordVault (http://www.lavasoftware.com) is an excellent choice - I’ve been using it for years. It’s also cross-platform (MacOS X, Windows and Linux) and costs $14.95. It does online sync and multi-user sync, has good import and export functions, etc. It’s a very good one.
Posted on January 23, 2008
bird Says:
I have been using Pastor. It doesn’t integrate to web browsers, but it is a nice place to store urls and user names/passwords.
Posted on January 23, 2008
kugino Says:
so for this “best” program, it gets an 8/10? what’s a 10/10?
Posted on January 24, 2008
Dstanboew Says:
Great
for windows i use roboform
For mac ox version i use ipasswd
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Posted on February 10, 2008
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
ronster Says:
“best password manager for the Mac that I’ve tried”
So which ones have you tried? I don’t feel well advised unless there’s a little comparison shopping going on. I’m a pretty content user of info.xhead but if there’s something better out there I’m all ears.
Posted on January 23, 2008