Agile Web Solution’s hugely popular 1Password launched its iPhone app partner yesterday. 1Password is the go-to password/secret manager for Macs and can now be called the best password manager for the iPhone.
Initial Impressions
When you first launch the program, it prompts you to set an 4-digit unlock code to access the main program and another “master code” to access some of the more sensitive information contained inside the program. This can include everything from your login information and saved forms for websites to secure notes to “wallet” type information.
To use the program, you enter your 4-digit unlock code and then you view some of the saved content. You can choose whether to have that saved content be subject to entering the master code or now. By default, anything that is imported from your 1Password computer information is tagged to be “master-code” dependent. This is helpful because otherwise you’d have to go into every saved item and configure it. Truthfully, if you’re serious about security, there is absolutely no reason why every item in there should be anything but master-code locked.
Like a few of the iPhone apps out there, 1Password makes wonderful use of the ability to open a browser page. That permits you to the website (in all of its Safari-like glory) using your secure login information, without switching applications.
While I would like to see something stronger than a 4-digit passcode to access 1Password, that concern is mitigated by the ability to lockdown absolutely everything in the program with the master-code (which can, and should, be long, complex, etc.)
It looks like Agile Web is looking to make the iPhone version of 1Password a paid-for application. Fine, I guess, if people are buying it standalone. The fact that it is an iPhone application also means that hoards of Windows users will now have, er, access to this great application, but I think that the iPhone version should be free to existing Mac 1Password license holders. Let’s see if they do the right thing.
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