Assuming that's correct (since the blog post still strikes me as vague), the answer is clear in their reply: memberships are exclusively cloud, standalone licenses are exclusively local backups / sync.
I’m currently using the 1Password 7 beta with a subscription and no standalone license. I have one vault that is stored in Dropbox and another that is just local.
I have no idea why they’ve decided to handle what they’ve called out elsewhere in this thread as an “advanced feature” that won’t be going away by lying about the feature not existing.
It seems so weird because their subscriptions work exactly how I’d want them to work, but all their public statements actively prevent people like me from knowing that.
Yeah, if it is (and stays) like "memberships get all apps + cloud sync + can still use dropbox sync" I'll happily switch. But I've asked them this question like 4 or 5 times now, and each time I've gotten a slightly different answer.
It's completely ridiculous. And it's burning trust, in a fairly inherently distrustful crowd like you get when you're in the security / crypto field.
I'll clarify for you then :) I'm a developer on our Apple team (Mac and iOS).
If you purchase a subscription you can create standalone vaults and sync them to Dropbox, iCloud, WLAN or Folder just as if you had purchased a license. You'll have both an account (which has vaults in it) and standalone local vaults that can be synced as above.
This is how it behaves in version 6 and nothing has changed with this in version 7.
So if you'd rather have a subscription AND just use standalone vaults you're welcome to do that.
Not however that this may not be true for Android or Windows. I'd have to double check with those teams as to how they do it but at least with regard to Apple platforms this is a viable option if you so choose.
I've brought this topic up internally and hope that we can all be on the same page. My suspicion is that someone from a non-Apple side of the company is answering these. It's tough because our Windows and Android apps are still trying to play catchup with Mac and iOS, so they may not do things that Mac and iOS do.
I do apologize for the confusion though. That said though you can take my answer and trust it. If you have questions though please reach out to our support and mention me specifically (Kyle) and they'll get you in touch with me.
Only one standalone vault is allowed for Android, it doesn't have multiple vault support.
However if you have an active subscription to 1Password.com it will unlock the Pro features for that single standalone vault. So it behaves similarly to how 1Password for iOS does in this regard. The difference is that 1Password for iOS supports multiple vaults.
Assuming that's correct (since the blog post still strikes me as vague), the answer is clear in their reply: memberships are exclusively cloud, standalone licenses are exclusively local backups / sync.