1Password has so many useful features, but the push towards the subscription model feels like Agilebits might phase out all other storage engines eventually, regardless of what the official line is right now. At least maybe they'll branch into Linux support if the subscription model brings in more revenue.
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`pass` is a CLI application. It has tab-autocompletion and everything. It doesn't get more efficient than that (tip: use `pass find` to search for entries).
> different storage engines
It's just OpenPGP encrypted plain text on disk, not sure what more you could want, but there is support for Tomb (https://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/) as well. Anything you expose to the filesystem works of course, including services like SFTP.
> shared vaults
Syncthing or git, and the use of multiple OpenPGP recipients. (See `.gpg-id` in the `pass` man-file.)
> categories for secure non-password stuff like credit cards,
It's plain multi-line text. The only convention is that the first line is intended for the password or secret data that clients would copy to the clipboard. You can store whatever text you want.
> OTP support
The shell interface is good. Especially `pass search`. Simple but effective.
It has gotten quite popular as well (amongst technical folks anyway). It is basically just a giant shell script. You can almost sense the authors frustrating. FINE I will just write a password manager myself. This started a simple 30 line shell script. Then you get into hacking on it. The you figure FINE I will polish it and release it. :)
It's just a file system with gpg encrypted files at the end of the day. I keep it organized. Store credit cards, etc.
Browser and fingerprint.... No.
I migrated to https://www.passwordstore.org and am perfectly happy. I always used the keyboard driven password search to retrieve passwords in 1Password. On Linux I just use dmenu. It is as good as any other password manager and I don't have to worry about problems like the ones in this article.
I still like 1Password, but I won't be going back.
I still recommend 1Password if you need cloud sync. KeePassX is a good local storage GUI alternative. Or just use Keychain on a Mac.