🔐 Authentication & login Privacy ★★★★
1Password
Enterprise-grade credential management
Overview
1Password uses Secret Key plus master password for encryption; regular audits and Watchtower breach alerts.
Auth-category use: generate and store unique credentials when moving services off Google OAuth.
Team and family vaults with activity logs for shared access governance.
Scores
Privacy 4/5
Ease of use 5/5
Features 5/5
Value 3/5
Google Sign-In / OAuth — comparison
Breaks Google Sign-In dependency with audited vault of unique passwords and Passkeys—Google outage no longer locks all linked apps.
Pros
- ✓ Best-in-class UI/UX
- ✓ Watchtower breach monitoring
- ✓ Travel Mode for border crossings
- ✓ Strong family and team sharing
Cons & caveats
- − Paid service (no free personal plan listed in our last review)
- − Closed source
- − No self-hosting
Best for
- UX-focused users
- Families and teams
- Enterprise credential policy
Not ideal for
- Free-only users
- OSS/self-host purists
Specs
- Pricing
- Paid — Official personal plans (USD, confirmed 2026-11-11): Individual is $3.99/month equivalent at the regular annual rate, or $2.99/month equivalent for the first-year promo (25% off). Monthly billing is $4.99. Families (5 users) is $5.99/month equivalent at the regular annual rate, or $4.49/month equivalent for the first-year promo. Monthly billing is $7.99. 14-day trial with no credit card. The promo applies only to new customers subscribing annually through 1Password.com, not through the App Store, Google Play, or other third-party stores. Sources: https://1password.com/jp/pricing/personal and https://1password.com/pricing/personal. Sourcenext official reseller (confirmed 2026-11-11): one-user online code 17,980; five-user 27,980. This is a 3-year prepaid license (the product pages do not call it a perpetual buyout; you repurchase after the term. After expiry you can still view existing passwords, but you cannot save new ones; CSV export remains available). Features are described as equivalent to official Individual / Family. No activation deadline. Switching from an official subscription forfeits any remaining official term. Deleting the 1Password account voids the license. The product pages do not show a tax-included or tax-excluded label. Official personal plans are USD subscriptions; the Sourcenext edition is a prepaid 3-year JPY license. Sources: https://www.sourcenext.com/product/1password/ and https://www.sourcenext.com/product/1password_b/
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Data location
- AWS regions selectable (US/EU/CA/AU/JP, etc.).
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS · Linux · Android · iOS · Browser extension
Watchtower漏洩監視Travel Modeチーム機能
Migration from Google Sign-In / OAuth
- 1 Create 1Password account; secure Secret Key backup
- 2 Audit Google third-party app connections
- 3 Convert each service to standalone login stored in 1Password
- 4 Run Watchtower on imported passwords
Setup steps
- 1 Sign up at 1password.com
- 2 Back up Secret Key offline
- 3 Install extensions and apps on all devices
- 4 Systematically disable Google Sign-In per service after adding passwords
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