Access: Passwords Companion Ratings and Reviews

Update#1: It’s getting better with each release and has reached the point where I am starting to move items over from 1Password. I wish there was closer parity to the features in 1Password but I hope the developer is paying attention and keeps improving the application.

Original: There is (apparently) is no way to contact developer as the Help menu is empty and About has not contact information, not even a website or email address There are lots of little things that could be improved but no way to pass along to developer other than here in a review.

So… while this app has potential, it needs a lot of more polish in data entry. Resizable windows for data entry, the ability to delete an added field easily, identity address field should be multiline filed, full name in identity should be first, middle and last, etc… etc… so many things that need improvement to be able to move from another app like 1Password) before committing to this app. The Apple security is a plus (over letting a 3rd party handle security) but the data entry should be more Apple-like. I’ll keep watching and hoping it comes along more before I’m ready to move to it.

Contacting the developer directly to pass along problems and suggestions would be most welcome.

I don’t write reviews often. Once Apple came out with Passwords, I was happy to leave 1pw and their subscription behind. While I enjoyed the app, it was too complex with my family who are way less tech savvy.

This app is a great companion to the new Passwords app by Apple. While I wish all of this functionality was included in the Passwords app, I am very happy to support these developers and their work to provide a compatible solution. This is what I have been looking for instead of just capturing detailed in a locked note. The app is simple, straightforward, and looks like a native app. Overall I have already become a fan in just a few hours and even paid for the app to support the devs.

Suggestions: I would love additional types like social security numbers or drive / Network details those aren’t deal breakers.

It would be great to be able to share records or the entire app with those in my family. That combined with Passwords app would be awesome. Right now
I can’t share records so it’s locked just to my phone.

This app is a personal database for storing household and personal data. This app needs work though. First it will not remember the window size on closing, so I have to resize it everytime I open it. Getting this right is like programming 101. In the Insurance section, by default, there is no option for Insurance Company, which is necessary. At least I can add a custom field, but I have to do this every entry, and it doesn’t seem to save any labels I’ve added here, so I have to type these in everytime. There’s a start date, with date picker, but then the end date I have to type in the date and it doesn’t even attempt to match the formatting of the start date field. And the Driver’s License section is missing a crucial field too — state of issue.

Like many, I’ve moved from a 3rd party password manager to the Apple Passwords app because of its perfect integration into the Apple ecosystem (Apple APIs simply won’t let this happen with other password managers). But, in doing so I’ve had to learn to live with fewer features in my password manager, and this is why I made the lifetime purchase of Access. It’s a potentially great app that fills in the holes left in the Apple Passwords app, but from a programming perspective, it’s still missing a few features. However, I’m confident the developer will eventually fine tune this app to be the perfect companion app for the Apple Passwords app.

Access is the app that has been missing for such a long time. It eliminates the need for a myriad of locked notes and photo albums and stores all those important documents safely and securely. There are a few little nuances such as the “Issued On” field not being a date picker and a non persistent side bar, but these are small and don’t impact the overall experience.
I don’t normally go for a subscription model but this app has so much potential I’m excited for its future development and have gone all in. It’s a great app that can only get better over time.

So far, so good. The beta feature of importing 1Password’s proprietary export file worked (sort of). It appears that all my data is there (some multiple times) and some weird stuff ended up in secure notes. But that is way better than importing a CSV file missing a lot of 1Password features. All of the data synced smoothly over to my iPhone and iPad. Now with this app and Apple’s password app, I have just quit 1Password (which I used almost from its first release).

This is the perfect complement to Apple’s Passwords app. “Complement”, of course, in set theory, means everything that’s missing from the other set. So, what’s missing in Passwords that can happily be found in Access: [1] ability to store entries other than passwords; [2] folders; [3] tags; [4] attachments. Also, the UI is a perfect match to Apple’s Passwords. What would I like to see added to Access: shared groups.

Since switching to Apple’s Passwords app, the main thing I now use 1Password for is Secure Notes. I was excited to try Access for secure notes, but it is extremely buggy. On the Mac, when I place the cursor in a note to edit it, pressing Return key jumps the cursor to the bottom of the note, instead of inserting line. If I try to edit a long note, the typing is unbearably slow - like 2 characters per second. The iPhone has its own issues. If I just touch where I want to edit a note, it scrolls to the bottom of the note.

I jumped on the Lifetime Black Friday deal and it was well worth it. I would appreciate the capability to sync items/folders with a family member. As of now I have to export and import to their phone, which is a little tedious since that has to be done every time I’m making changes to anything or adding new items. I hope that is planned for the future.

I originally tried this app because of the fact that, with alternate browsers, iOS will sometimes not surface saved cards like it does in Safari. I figured since this is a passwords app, that iOS autofill would have been supported. However it looks like I can’t add Access as an autofill provider. Isn’t this a baseline feature for an app like this? Would purchase the lifetime subscription if this was implemented with card and password support.