I recently cancelled Evernote after 12 years of paying for it due to their new Electron client.
I've been using 1Password since 2008 and I'll be doing the same thing. I have tolerated the UI regressions and even subscription with version 7, but Electron is just unacceptable for what was once an amazing Mac app that put Apple's apps to shame.
Exactly the same here. I've had three software subscriptions until this year, mostly begrudgingly — CreativeCloud, Evernote and 1password.
I got rid of two of them — Evernote for exactly the same reason.
1pwd going the Electron route would have put me close, but not over the edge — but the fact that they seem to have willy-nilly removed local vaults does.
These days it sometimes feels like one has to write all essential software oneself. Or go back to DOS and plain text files.
> but the fact that they seem to have willy-nilly removed local vaults does.
They're a business, and 97% of their users were already on the subscription model. If you were running a business, and 97% of your users had abandoned a feature that was a headache for you to maintain, would you stubbornly keep wasting time and money on it?
Oh so THAT'S why the Evernote update sucks. The Android client is terrible, it dumps me to the useless Home whenever I scroll to the bottom. It's now unusable. I've begun transitioning to Notion because of it.
Similar here, I started using 1Password pretty early too. One of the main selling points for me: The nice, fast and native UI and the ability to keep my store local and sync it however I want.
The only wish I had over the years(and I would have gladly paid for an additional license): a linux client, even CLI would have been fine.
I'm not sure which year they started, but what they pushed instead was the announcement of online sync and other things I did not care about, at some point it became hard to even find the regular version on their website.
This was when I slowly started moving to alternatives. With the move to electron and this anouncement here I'm happy that I moved away a few years ago and their clear signal that I am not the kind of customer they have any interest in anymore.
I hate Electron as much as the next guy, but man have I been enjoying Obsidian. I mention this only because it has changed the way I write notes and manage them and I've been through the path of Evernote > Apple Notes > Bear > Obsidian.
I've been using 1Password since 2008 and I'll be doing the same thing. I have tolerated the UI regressions and even subscription with version 7, but Electron is just unacceptable for what was once an amazing Mac app that put Apple's apps to shame.