Hello - looking for some advise..
I have been using password manager bitwarden for some 3 or 4 years now personal premium plan..
Need to get my wife plus one of daughters on board.. (wife is not tech savy at all - keeps password written down..doing reset all the time.
Without looking at the costs.. am i better getting a family plan or individual plans.
I am pretty sure bitwarden will not fly with the wife or 14 year old..(due to the interface)
Open to advise 1password or proton pass i have been looking at …
What is the main advantage of a family plan v premium personal plan ??
I think this is very much debatable. I actually prefer the UI and UX of Proton Pass over 1Password, and I highly appreciate Proton’s integrated alias feature that is easy to use for even less tech-savvy people and it’s included in the subscription instead of requiring an additional subscription with another service like it does with 1Password. This was one of the key reasons why I chose Proton’s family plan instead of going with something else.
Proton Pass has also come a long way and there aren’t really that many features that would still be missing, and some of these are coming soon as well.
1Password also has integrated alias feature (from Fastmail), but I prefer Bitwarden’s alias management, because they support more vendors, instead of their own like Proton and 1Password.
Considering there are many competitors in the password management field, I find it weird that Proton Pass released their apps with very basic features. So far, they released only attachment support. Categories, folders, tags, multi item selection, biometric support on browsers, native messaging support, multiple login support, URI and regex rule support, and so on, still missing, and many of those are not in their roadmap.
It’s sometimes a learning thing. You should set it up and teach them how to use it. Have them demonstrate adding a new login, and tell them why it’s important and worth the hassle.
No matter which one you choose it won’t be a setup and forget. Since you already know Bitwarden, it’ll likely make it was easier to help them out, vs having everyone learn new software. My two cents.
If this is the only new feature you can come up with after Proton Pass was launched, I would say that it seems that you haven’t really been paying attention.
Proton Pass has improved substantially after their release, and it has really felt like Proton has been shipping new features faster than any other password manager in their time on the market.
Proton Pass has vaults that essentially work like folders. I just tested again the multi item selection that has also been implemented. Biometric support on browsers is on the road map and is already on the mobile, desktop and web apps. I’m not sure what you mean with native messaging support or multiple login support.
Try to select multiple items like you can do with 1Password. For example, select all items from letter A to D. It is still not possible. Vaults are not effective as tags or folders.
Desktop app doesn’t support biometric login at initial setup, but it is enabled afterwards. Expectation was to use biometrics, like Windows Hello at initial setup of the app too because it should write passkey into Windows accounts like Bitwarden does.
For browsers, I don’t think it will be implemented any time soon. Here is the official reply from support. The reason behind this is that we use the WebAuthN PRF extension to retrieve a crypto key as part of web biometrics. Unfortunately, Windows on their side does not use this and is not PRF compliant so at the moment, we can not use it.
Native messaging, like Bitwarden and 1Password do, enable communication between desktop app and browser extension, so that I don’t have to lock / unlock / setup browser extension and desktop app separately. Once I lock or unlock desktop app, it reflects the same to the browser extension. Proton Pass doesn’t have this feature, and it is not in their roadmap either.
Yes, Proton Pass improved a bit (not a lot, but a bit) since its release, but they should have done proper research and development before releasing it. Treating paying customers like beta and alpha testers is not a good thing.
I am currently using both 1Password and Proton Pass, and I have also used Dashlane. I have a suggestion for you: choose 1password if you don’t worry about it not being open source, as everything else about 1Password is more stable than Proton Pass.
There is one more thing about Proton Pass, pricing. They are asking for 59,88 Euro for Family Plan, and 1Password asks for 57 Euro.
So, it would be natural for users like me to expect the same quality, or better from the Proton Pass same as 1Password, right?
Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending 1Password, they have their own flaws too, and I really don’t want to pay them every year when I have Proton Family, but still I can’t make the complete switch.
I’ve been using 1password for years with my family and got my extended family to use it also. They will all be a learning curve but 1password is pretty and the ui makes things easier for newbies