Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. 1Password and Bitwarden solve the same basic problem. They remember your passwords so you do not have to. But their purchase arguments are very different. 1Password is built as a premium subscription from the start. It emphasizes a polished experience, family management, security guidance, and convenience. Bitwarden takes almost … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. Bitwarden Premium has an unusual problem. It is cheap. Very cheap. At $19.80 per year, the entire annual subscription costs less than what many software companies now charge for one month. That makes the upgrade tempting. It also makes the decision surprisingly easy to get wrong. Because Bitwarden Free … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. Bitwarden and Proton Pass have created an unusual software problem. Their free plans are actually useful. Very useful. Useful enough that the first question should not be: “Which premium password manager should I buy?” It should be: “Do I need to pay for either one?” Both Bitwarden Free and … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. “Free password manager” can mean several very different things. Sometimes it means: Use the core product forever without paying. Sometimes it means: Here are 10 passwords. Good luck with password number 11. And sometimes “free” means: You have 14 days before the subscription page appears. Those products should not … Read more
Welcome back to Upgrade or Skip. Keeper and Bitwarden can both solve the same basic problem: You have too many passwords, and “I’ll remember them” stopped being a strategy about 47 accounts ago. But their free plans approach that problem very differently. Bitwarden gives free users unlimited passwords across unlimited devices. Keeper Free limits you … Read more
