DTEARE I understand exactly where you're coming from; we actually hear this a lot as on the surface Safari's autofill and 1Password's features overlap. In reality, 1Password's features start where Safari autofill ends. Let me give a few examples to back up that statement. First, Safari and other built-in browser password managers have troubles on many financial websites. Many websites have multiple password fields, disable Safari's autofill feature, use multi-step login steps, randomly generate field names, or use other techniques that often cause the standard Autofill to fail. 1Password bends over backwards to make as many of these work as possible. Second, Safari's Autofill only works in Safari. It sounds obvious, but consider what a pain it will be if you ever switch browsers. 1Password allows you to store all your web passwords in one place and access them everywhere. With 1Password, the days of manually copying usernames and passwords from one browser to another are gone :) Third, Safari's Autofill does not work automatically if you have multiple accounts for a website. With 1Password's menu it is very natural to have many accounts, whereas with Safari you need to manually type the username to get the "Autofill" to kick in. This behavior is quite confusing, and it is not uncommon to find "how to find your Safari login" blog posts. Fourth, you can sync 1Password with your iPhone so you always have your passwords available with you. Fifth, Safari fills forms on pages with URLs that are an exact match to what it has saved. 1Password offers precise URL matching so that the most relevant saved Login is selected by default, but also presents other matching Logins as options. This means if a web site moves its login page, 1Password can still log you in. In fact, 1Password can even use the information saved on a registration page to fill a form on the login page! Of course there are more features as well but I don't want to type an entire essay here :) Lastly, I wanted to mention you are right that Autofilling a web site when you visit it is a nice feature and it is something we're considering adding. The main reason we haven't yet is because 1Password has a feature called Go&Fill. What this does is it allows you to type in a few characters of the site you want to go to, and 1Password will take you to that site, fill in the login information, *and* automatically submit the form for you. Go&Fill is so much more convenient than Autofilling a page (where you have to type the URL and press 'login') that we've resisted adding Autofill, but I think we will end up adding it anyway as everyone has their own way of doing things. Co-author of 1Password
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