As a long-time 1password shill I have hit my limit and will slowly start migrating to BitWarden and iCloud Keychain.
Our decision to built the macOS app in Electron was absolutely not driven by VC money. For the past few years, we've been working on consolidating 1Password's business logic into a single Rust-powered core that could be shared across all our apps. This has many advantages: feature consistency across platforms, faster development cycles, and better security. When building the front-end for the desktop platforms that would take advantage of this new core, Electron suited us perfectly, since we could write our UI code once and make it consistent across Linux, Windows, and Mac. We actually did build a native Mac app initially alongside the cross-platform Electron app, but we eventually decided that having two separate versions of the macOS app (one in Electron, one in SwiftUI) would cause a lot of needless development churn and hassle for both customers and our support team.
I can understand your frustration about Electron, but I hope you find my explanation reasonable. Please stop spreading misinformation.
I can absolutely attest to that with a relatively underpowered computer (4 gb of RAM). I can barely use 2 electron apps after which my computer grinds to a crawl (I’m running VSCode and Slack mostly). I have stopped using the discord desktop app and exclusively use the website now.
That AgileBits has been doing everything it can to force people to the subscription model and that this push to subscriptions very coincidentally lines up with two rounds of VC investment for over $300M over the past couple of years? No, that is not misinformation.
It may have been easier for the dev team to use Electron as their cross-platform toolkit, it is not easier for the users to put up with the attendant bloat and reduced performance.
The ones who should stop spreading misinformation regarding the forced subscription all seem to be working for AgileBits.
There's a reason people prefer one over the others. You can't have one front-end for all these different platforms. Well, you can, but then it's a compromise for at least 2 out of these 3 platforms.
Even Microsoft has "Office 365 for Mac".
That doesn't make the macOS experience better, it makes it worse.
Bitwarden's desktop app is built on Electron..
But that doesn’t make VS Code “shit”. It’s pretty much the shining star of Electron done right.
You can create a shortcut in the iOS shortcuts app to open the Passwords area of Settings via an icon on your Home Screen. Just open the following URL in the shortcut:
prefs:root=PASSWORDS
Best tip I have for you around iCloud Keychain right there.
For anyone who doesnt use shortcuts often, what you need to do in Shortcuts is:
1. Make a ‘URL’ action to prefs:root=PASSWORDS 2. Hit the ‘+’ and make a ‘Open URL’ action from safari.
Save, add to Home Screen, and you’re done.
