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J&P Group > J&P InfoSol > Applications > Password Managers
| Application | price from |
Desktops | PDAs, Smart phones | Comments | |||||
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Apple OS X |
Microsoft Windows |
Linux flavors |
Apple iPhone |
Windows Mobile |
Palm OS | other | |||
| 1Password | $39.95 | Yes | No | No | Yes | no? | Yes... | Probably the best PWM on Mac (Mar 2009) | |
| ewallet | $19.95 | No | Yes | no | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Web Confidential | $20 | Yes | Yes | No | no | no | Yes | A bit old, infrequent updates nowadays (Mar 2009) | |
Other: Blackberry, Symbian, ...
One comparison of multiple PWM we found: MacHackShack.com - switching to Mac- Review- 13 Mac OS X Password Managers, two that don't suck (a little bit out of date when still)
Comparing 1Password - being evaluated - to Web Confidential - used for many years.
| 1Password | Web Confidential | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Info | agilewebsolutions.com/... | web-confidential.com | |
| Developer | Agile Web Solutions | Alco Blom | No speciific site for Alco Blom; he seems to only promote his products by direct product-specific sites (e.g. web-confidential.com and ww.url-manager.com/.) Google Alco Blom. |
| Pricing | Only Mac: $39.95/single user $69.95/family |
$20 for Mac $20 for Win $15 for Palm |
1Password: license is per person and include all his/hers Macs - a great and very cost-effective solution (for users)! Web Confidential: pricing from Kagi. |
| Platforms | 1Password | Web Confidential | |
| Mac OS X | 10.4.11 or later | 9.x, 10.x | |
| iPhone | don't think so (not checked) |
1Password: 'free for limited time' from Apple's iPhone App store. | |
| Palm OS | 4.0 or later (read-only...) |
Yes (Palm OS appl) |
1Password:
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| Windows | no app, see note on sync |
95/98/2000/ME/XP (MS Windows appl) |
1P: Windows or Linux support. "We are not planning a full-blown Windows version of 1Password. What we will be doing, however, is enabling 1Password (on both Mac and iPhone/iPod touch) to sync with services like MobileMe and DropBox so that you can easily back up your data as well as access it from your Windows or Linux computer." |
| Linux | no app, see note on sync |
no | |
| R&D | 1Password | Wed Confidential | |
| Version | 2.9.11 | 3.8b4 | As per Info (Command-I) for installed application. |
| Released | 2009-03-06 | 2008-03-17 | |
| since today | ~2 wks ago | ~ 1 yr ago | (This review per Sun 2009-03-22) |
| R&D | frequent | infrequent | 1Password development is very much alive; Web Confidential seems more dead... |
| Application size | 21.5 MB | 4.9 MB | |
| Dev Web Site | agilewebsolutions.com/... | web-confidential.com | General information about developers web site |
| Info, in general | very good | so-so |
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| organization/structure | very good | so-so | 1P: top navigation and menus stays in place (uses frames or advanced CSS) WC: not as good, no frames/advanced CSS |
| Store | good | so-so | WC: external, uses multiple different |
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WC shows its age and that it is a one-man shop behind the product (Alco Blom). |
| Blog | |||
| General Use | 1Password | Wed Confidential | |
| Primarily how using | From within browser. (Application isn't even visible in list of open applications. Nice!) |
Application itself. | 1P: adds a button - and toolbar - in web browsers and this is how accessing most commonly used features. WC: from the application itself, limited integration with web browsers. |
| Starting | 3 sec* | 10 sec* | 1Password starts significantly faster. *) Times only to be seen relatively; on a specific Mac (Mini), with lots of applications running. |
| Find | Cmd+F* | Cmd+F, then Tab | 1P: Default keyboard sequence is Cmd+Opt+F which conflict with Spotlight (...!). This is however easy to fix with System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse. More info. WC: Cmd+F moves to Find-field but then one has to press Tab to enter actual field for typing. |
