Gabe Turner: Hey, folks.
This is Gabe at Security Baron.
I know you have multiple passwords for all the devices and services that you use.
Wouldn't it be great if you could unify that?
Well, today we're checking out 1Password password manager.
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Gabe: Today's review of 1Password password manager, I'm going to check out its pros and
cons, feature set, subscription options, customer support, before finally jumping into its application,
so you have all the information you need to make the right decision.
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If you have a question about today's review, leave us a comment, and I'll get back to you.
To kick off today's review of 1Password password manager, I want to talk about the pros and
cons, beginning with the pros.
With 1Password, you get multi-factor authentication, dark Web scan, and a travel mode.
A couple of the cons are that, one, you cannot change multiple passwords at once, and two,
you cannot get a live person on the chat.
There's no live chat when it comes to customer support for 1Password.
Now that we've gone over the pros and cons of 1Password password manager, let's check
out its feature set, beginning with its main feature, the ability to store passwords across
devices, services, email addresses, everything.
With the 1Password, you're going to have to go ahead and manually input your passwords
into the vault.
With Chrome, you actually can export a file and then import a file.
With any other browser, it's just going to be a means of going through and putting each
password in.
When you're going through this process, Watchtower will be able to tell you whether or not your
passwords are old, or weak, or repeated, and help you to generate newer and better passwords.
That's one thing to keep in mind when using 1Password is that ultimately you're going
to have a more robust safe system right from the get go.
Now, for even more security, 1Password gives you the ability to create a secret key.
The secret key gives you two-factor and multi-factor authentication.
On top of that secret key, because you may forget it, along with your master password,
you can give an emergency contact, the ability to grant you access to your vault.
Finally, you have the industry standard and password encryption and password protection
against cracking.
You're really going to feel safe inside the 1Password ecosystem.
When it comes to storage, 1Password stores everything from your vault, locally, but they
will also give you one gigabyte of document storage.
One thing I want to note is that you might want to go ahead and sync everything with
either iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
Another feature that caught my eye with 1Password is the dark Web scan.
It will scan the dark Web for your credentials and let you know if anything has been potentially
compromised.
You can go ahead and be alerted to change your passwords.
The final thing that's cool about 1Password is the fact that they have a travel mode,
which allows you to mark devices as safe or not for travel, so you don't have to worry
about so many customs going through all your information.
Let's check out the subscription plans with 1Password.
Right off the bat, I want you to know that 1Password does not offer a monthly plan.
You're going to pay annually for access to 1Password.
For one individual, it's going to be $3,588 a year or about $299 a month.
If you want to go with the family plan, it's going to be $5,988 a year or about $499 a
month.
One thing to note with the family plan is you can share password and credit card information.
You can make sure what people see and don't see within the group, and you can recover
accounts for anyone from your family that has been locked out.
That is available for up to five users.
In addition to the individual and family plans, 1Password offers business Plans.
You have, one, which is called the team plan, which is for a maximum of five users.
It'll be $399 a month per user.
That's right, a month.
You can actually do the business plans monthly.
It also has the business and enterprise plans, which can be used for a maximum of the 20
users.
The business plan is $799 per month per user.
While to understand the ins and outs of the enterprise plan, you're going to speak directly
with a 1Password customer service representative.
When it comes to those plans, you'll note that they have advanced features like VIP
customer support, and five gigabytes of document cloud storage.
To get a detailed breakdown of these plans, check out the 1Password review at securitybaron.com.
Let's check out the customer support for 1Password password manager.
They have an online Help Center, and they also will respond to emails 24/7.
In our experience, that was pretty much true.
We sent them an email, and they got back to us within a day.
We would love to see some live chat or phone support, though we don't ever hold our breath
for the latter.
When it comes to what people are saying on the Internet, you'll note that on Amazon,
they have a rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars from 20 reviews.
Then the nine, almost half of those reviews that mentioned customer support, seven of
those were negative, with only the most recent ones being positive.
Hopefully, that means that they're moving in the right direction.
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Let's check out the applications for 1Password.
1Password, you can find basically anything as a browser extension or as a full-fledged
app for Windows, Mac, iOS, Androids, or iPhones.
In the Google Play Store, it gets 4.2 out of 5 stars.
In the Apple App Store, it gets 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Let's go ahead and check it out on a Windows computer, and on my iPhone 10.
Here I am checking out 1Password.
You'll note that this is just the Web interface.
I'm just on the Internet checking out 1Password.
You'll note that it says, step one, install, step two, secure and how to open your vault.
Let's go ahead and open our vault right here on the page.
I'm inside of the vault now, and I can see various accounts.
These are all my items, various places to look.
If you look on the left side, you got Favorites.
Watchtower, this will let me know the overall passwords, 53 reuse passwords, three weak
passwords, two excellent, 67 good, two weak, and one terrible password.
You definitely want to change this out.
This is what is the useful element of Watchtower component of the 1Password password manager.
Below that, we've got personal secure notes, various identities.
These all are really useful.
That's our look at 1Password password manager in the Web interface.
Here I am checking out the mobile application on my iPhone 10 for 1Password password manager.
You'll see there are a host of different passwords here in this initial page.
I can, of course, go to my Favorites.
Any recent items will appear here.
I can use the different tags.
I can go to Settings.
It's a pretty straightforward app.
If I'm looking at my password accounts, you can see here that you can sign in using various
things.
This is my account that I'm using.
I've got the general, which basically, just lets you look at how you set up the app itself.
You can look at my vault.
I can have a personal vault.
I can make a new vault, maybe for business or for travel.
This vault can be titled travel or business.
I would just create all those things inside of that vault.
I go back and look at how to save passwords and more.
It basically gives you a little tutorial on how to do various things.
That's pretty useful because there are a lot of things you can do with this app.
You don't want to be spending your time trying to figure it out yourself.
It's really useful to be able to just use what we have here.
Let's go back to the personal vault.
The categories, items, logins, here, identities, secure notes.
You can add a note, like a new password or a section or just any note in general.
"Don't forget."
The "Don't forget" is the new secure note here, and various identities.
I can put identity cards, whatever I like right there, and, of course, your trash.
Overall, pretty straightforward, easy app to use.
I love the intuitiveness with 1Password password manager.
Let's get to the nitty-gritty on whether or not 1Password is right for you.
I'm going to be frank.
I like it.
I like it as a password manager.
It's easy to use.
It's affordable.
It has a solid mobile experience.
It has cool features like dark Web scan and travel mode.
I'm a fan of this.
Now, I do want to be clear that if you want to have something that's going to change all
your passwords at once or doesn't have lackluster customer support, then you want to check something
else out because that's going to be the case with 1Password.
Overall, it is definitely a solid choice for a password manager.
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Gabe: That concludes our review of 1Password password manager.
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