
I know it’s not the answer you want, but we will never publicly commit to Dropbox, iCloud, or local vaults for the future. This partial commitment is nice to hear, although it would have been nicer a few days ago when I asked about support for standalone vaults beyond version 6 and the response was: But 1Password memberships are indeed awesome and are the best way to use 1Password, and as such, I am going to continue to nudge you over when ever I can 🙂 1Password 6 and even 1Password 7 will continue to support standalone vaults. We know that not everyone is ready to make the jump yet, and as such, we will continue to support customers who are managing their own standalone vaults.

Many Mac users worry that the same fate awaits 1Password 6 for Mac, and that we will remove support for local vaults and force them to pay again. These worries are compounded by the fact that 1Password 6 for Windows was designed from the ground up to support 1Password Teams customers only (and then later expanded to include family and individual plans), and we are unsure how this adventure will play out on the Windows side of the world, so we haven’t made any public announcements about when support for standalone vaults will be added, if ever.

After all, many have corporate policies or regional restrictions that prevent them from using a hosted solution like ours, and so they’re understandably concerned and want to know that there’s a future for them with 1Password. As great as 1Password memberships are, I know that our excitement for them can cause some people to become worried. Now the thing is, I know it’s not realistic to expect everyone to be able to be able to join one of our memberships at this time.

1Password Standalone Vaults and PasswordWallet
