Standalone vaults in 1Password 8

Hi @viking1978, thanks for this reply.

We've tried to be clear (but understanding) about the fact that 1Password 8 does not support standalone vaults, and we understand that this won't work for everyone.

To be clear, if you have a 1Password membership, you still have "local" vaults (which is to say, when you unlock your app, you are unlocking an encrypted database that exists on your device). But this different from standalone vaults, in the sense that this device is synced to your other devices via our servers. In both cases, the encryption and decryption happen exclusively on your device.

Another way of saying this is that, while we may pass the encrypted data between devices using our 1Password.com service, we have no ability to decrypt this data on our end, and we never have access to the account password and Secret Key you use to decrypt your data. There is no backdoor, no "other way" to get in, nothing. It's just encryption all the way down.

We made the change from standalone vaults to 1Password.com for a variety of reasons, including that there were hard limits on what was possible with standalones (in terms of features), these vaults were not always exclusively local to the device anyway (but were being synced via Dropbox, iCloud, and so on, which are not designed for this specific use case in the way that our own architecture is), and that they are frankly extremely difficult to assist customers with when something goes wrong.

We do have an open survey about self-hosting options, which we'd be happy to have your feedback on.

But the standalone vault as it previously existed is not going to be part of 1Password 8. If that doesn't work for you, we completely understand, and wish you the best and will be here for you if your needs change at any point.