Zach Olivare posted on 6 March 2023. The same piece first went up on olivare.net. He had used LastPass for 10 years and recommended it to about a dozen people.
The 2022 breach is why he tried 1Password. URLs and usernames stolen in the clear. Passwords and notes stolen encrypted. He cites a crack-cost range of $75,000 to $1.5 million per password. That is his reading of public write-ups, not a lab result.
If you are looking at the same route, start with the LastPass → 1Password playbook. 1Password’s LastPass importer is the current desktop path. Zach’s post is the feature list after you live there, not a dump log.
What he wanted that LastPass folded together
LastPass family sharing used Shared- folders. A streaming login that lived in Streaming had to move to Shared-Streaming to share it. The collection split.
1Password shares with vaults. Tags do the sorting. Vaults stay few, and they do not have to start with Shared-. He treats a vault like a safe with its own combination.
Folders were the other tax. An item can sit in one LastPass folder. It can wear any number of 1Password tags. He had more than 50 LastPass folders and subfolders, many of them only there to escape the (none) bucket. He is down to 9 tags.
Archive is the feature he did not have before. Old job logins can leave search and autofill without a delete. He had deleted every “old” work password once, then needed the HR site for tax documents six months later.
He also lists TOTP in the vault, a native desktop app, multiple websites on one login, and signing into personal and work accounts at the same time. LastPass made him duplicate a login for sibling URLs, then yelled about duplicate passwords unless he configured Equivalent Domains. 1Password lets him add another website on the same item.
What he lost
1Password does not search the notes field. He used notes as aliases. DayForce is the HR tool he can never remember, so he typed “SkySlope HR” in LastPass notes and searched that. That query is gone.
LastPass will share one item with any other LastPass user. 1Password only shares inside the family or org subscription.
LastPass had “Save All Entered Data” for long forms. He used it when testing sites. He did not find an equivalent.
Both tools, in his view, still lack a fast “only autofill this identity” switch. LastPass Identities exist and are clumsy. 1Password can disable a vault, but not as a one-click active vault.
He does not publish an item count, a failed import, or a cutover window. The DEV post is a product comparison after the move. I am not turning it into a dump.
What I would copy
Decide the sharing model before you import. LastPass Shared- folders are not 1Password tags. Map each shared folder to a vault, then put tags back on the items.
If you live in notes as a search index, copy those aliases into a custom field or a tag. 1Password will not find them in notes. Zach’s DayForce example is the check.
Keep one outside-family share you care about in writing. If that person is not on your family plan, 1Password will not do what LastPass did.
Do not delete LastPass until you can find the alias login, a shared family item, and a form you used to autofill. Zach never describes that hour. I still would.
The LastPass → 1Password playbook is the vault checklist. Use Zach’s post for the notes-search gap the importer will not warn you about.