iCloud Keychain vs. 1Password

PsycoGeek

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Can someone please explain to me the differences? Do they essentially do the same thing or what?

This is something totally new to me and I need help.
 
With iCloud keychain you store all your passwords on apples servers, with 1Password you can chose to have it only stored on your computer.
 
1Password will also store other things, like credit card info, addresses, other types of passwords, etc. It also lets you autocomplete all this info in a browser, using an implementation thats probably more secure than iCloud Keychain.
 
I don't think you guys are answering the OP's question.

OP: iCloud Keychain and 1Password are password managers. They will help you generate, save, archive, and automatically enter passwords for sites and/or applications. You will only have to remember the password needed to access the manager, rather than remembering passwords for every single website or application. This is where 1Password gets its name.

iCloud Keychain is a pretty simple implementation of the concept: it will save your passwords, will help you randomly generate passwords, and will let you access those passwords on any Apple device that can talk to iCloud.

1Password gives you finer grain control over the complexity of the randomly generated passwords, archives old versions of logins, will let you save non-login data (like software license keys, credit card numbers, autofill data, etc), and has a Windows version. However, it's not well integrated on iOS, and you need to sync your password database through Dropbox to make it cross-platform.

I'm a big 1Password fan but will try to get my family (aka my supported userbase) to use iCloud Keychain, especially now that Apple uses fingerprint sensors. Baseline security should improve tremendously.
 
Terpfen said:
I don't think you guys are answering the OP's question.

OP: iCloud Keychain and 1Password are password managers. They will help you generate, save, archive, and automatically enter passwords for sites and/or applications. You will only have to remember the password needed to access the manager, rather than remembering passwords for every single website or application. This is where 1Password gets its name.

iCloud Keychain is a pretty simple implementation of the concept: it will save your passwords, will help you randomly generate passwords, and will let you access those passwords on any Apple device that can talk to iCloud.

1Password gives you finer grain control over the complexity of the randomly generated passwords, archives old versions of logins, will let you save non-login data (like software license keys, credit card numbers, autofill data, etc), and has a Windows version. However, it's not well integrated on iOS, and you need to sync your password database through Dropbox to make it cross-platform.

I'm a big 1Password fan but will try to get my family (aka my supported userbase) to use iCloud Keychain, especially now that Apple uses fingerprint sensors. Baseline security should improve tremendously.
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Should be end of thread. I use both and 1Password can log into (onto?) websites that do not allow you save a password. I understand that one can easily defeat that, but that is not the point.

1Password for an iDevice opens in their own browser and logs me in.
 
Thank you Terpfen and Liver... All I have to do now is decide on which one to use.
 
Peteman100 said:
1Password will also store other things, like credit card info, addresses, other types of passwords, etc. It also lets you autocomplete all this info in a browser
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This is exactly what iCloud keychain does too. It autocompletes credit cards, passwords and other things in the browser.
 
Another nice thing about 1password is that you can attach docs to logins and it'll encrypt those as well. Useful if you are using a website that has backup codes, for example Google and Evernote.
 
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