LastPass seem to be shooting themselves in the foot with their irrational and inconsistent pricing.
- A few years back, their free/premium tiers were looking similar to what they announced today. Only they charged a mere $15/year for premium, which I gladly paid.
- Then, overnight, they offered syncing across all types of devices for their free tier. The premium tier was only adding some niche features. I would have continued to pay $15/year just to support them, but at the same time they bumped up premium to $36/year. That was a deal-breaker: not paying 2.5x for features I don't use.
- Now, they switch back to not syncing across all types of devices, but the premium price stays $36/year.
If LastPass was the only game in town, they might get away with it. But there are at least two competitors, against which LastPass doesn't compare favourably: 1Password costs about the same, but is more refined. Bitwarden is a bit less refined, but is cheaper.
I'm not dissatisfied with the LastPass product itself. But having to keep up with radical policy changes every few years largely negates any positive experience.
Thanks for the pointer. First time I hear about Enpass.
The UI looks nice, but I still don't get their company model. Data are stored on a third party cloud provider of your choice, so why is Enpass subscription-based? I surmise that paying removes some sort of ads from the apps, but I can't tell for sure. If that's the case, I'll have to pass.
It actually restricts the number of items you can sync. It is much cheaper though. Actually; with the new model they do have a sort of ad based system; they have this incredibly dumb popup about how some passwords might be compromised. Oddly even after paying its impossible to kill that banner.
- A few years back, their free/premium tiers were looking similar to what they announced today. Only they charged a mere $15/year for premium, which I gladly paid.
- Then, overnight, they offered syncing across all types of devices for their free tier. The premium tier was only adding some niche features. I would have continued to pay $15/year just to support them, but at the same time they bumped up premium to $36/year. That was a deal-breaker: not paying 2.5x for features I don't use.
- Now, they switch back to not syncing across all types of devices, but the premium price stays $36/year.
If LastPass was the only game in town, they might get away with it. But there are at least two competitors, against which LastPass doesn't compare favourably: 1Password costs about the same, but is more refined. Bitwarden is a bit less refined, but is cheaper.
I'm not dissatisfied with the LastPass product itself. But having to keep up with radical policy changes every few years largely negates any positive experience.