When comparing 1Password vs iTerm2, the Slant community recommends iTerm2 for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for macOS?” iTerm2 is ranked 1st while 1Password is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose iTerm2 is:
Other than being able to customize the various shortcuts, iTerm2 also lets you customize the colorscheme, font, transparency, etc.
Specs
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Pros
Pro A clean, good-looking and intuitive UI
An iteration on the UI brings a polished look that was already good-looking to begin with. It even tries pulling in relevant app and web icons, adds credit cards logos and has little animation to make the experience more pleasant.
Pro Available as a webapp, as a standalone application, as an extension, and more, across most platforms, browsers, operating systems, and devices.
Versatility and synchronicity for the majority of the devices and platforms you use. Plus, all software is free with a paid subscription.
Pro Browser integration
Easily fill in passwords with a single keystroke combination.
Quickly add new and update existing passwords right from the browser when the login is detected by the free browser extension.
Pro Can perform an audit on passwords
1Password can checks for weak, duplicate and old passwords you have stored.
Pro Easy to use autofill and password generator
Automatically logs into websites, enters credit card information, fills registration forms, and easily generates strong passwords. Password generator can be adjust to use or exclude certain characters and patterns.
Pro Warns of website vulnerabilities
A feature called Watchtower cross-references known website vulnerabilities with stored login information using a database that is updated daily.
Pro Can also store software and license keys
Pro Collaborative password management
1Password offers an option to create a shared vault for sharing passwords among friends, family and co-workers.
Pro Time based one time passwords
Pro Version now supports time based one time passwords (instead of installing google authenticator).
Pro AES-256 encryption
For more information see here.
Pro TouchID support
All TouchID capable devices are supported.
Pro Cloud & Wi-Fi sync
1Password offers syncing through cloud storage services such as Dropbox and iCloud and a possibility to sync locally over Wi-Fi if you opt not to use cloud storage.
Pro Endorsed by many high credibility security experts
This app is endorsed by many high credibility security experts (for example, Troy Hunt ).
Pro Great customer support
Pro Can store secure notes
1Password can store secure notes which don't file cleanly into other areas like passwords or bank details. Secure notes can be used to record anything you want.
Pro Can use multiple vaults at once and search across vaults
One could manage a vault for work, a vault that's personal and a shared family vault while keeping the details of each segmented from each other and only sync'ed where/if desired.
Pro Active community of users and active / blogging development team
There is an immense sense of community and openness with 1Password.
Pro Periodically assessed by external security auditors and their findings are repaired quickly
Pro Available on multiple platforms
Pro Doesn't depend on the cloud
Unlike many other password management tools, by default the 1Password encrypted database is not stored in the cloud, but strictly locally, for added security.
Pro Makes use of keys so that password to login is never in transit
Pro Extremely customizable
Other than being able to customize the various shortcuts, iTerm2 also lets you customize the colorscheme, font, transparency, etc.
Pro Autocomplete is built-in
iTerm has autocomplete features built in. It remembers your past commands and when you are writing something on the terminal, simply pressing Control-;
it will show you a drop down menu of suggestions from which to choose.
Pro Complete out of the box
Unlike most terminal emulators, iTerm2 comes with a pretty complete set of features. It has built-in search, autocompletion, tabbed navigation, Growl support and even a built-in clipboard manager for various API keys and such.
Pro Fine tuning for fonts
It's possible to choose a font and adjust vertical and horizontal spacing.
Pro Can immediately open files inside a text editor
You can Ctrl+Click on a file path to open said file in a text editor.
Pro Supports mouse actions
Has support for mouse actions like clicking, dragging, selecting, etc.
Pro Active maintainers
Issues resolved fast by quality contributors.
Pro Works well with powerline fonts
Pro Completely free and open source
iTerm2 is completely free and open source. It's released under the GPLv2 license.
Pro Split panes
Easy to split panes to either horizontal or vertical sections. Makes it easy to observe multiple console windows.
Pro Supported by many applications as a terminal app selection
If an application has terminal integration, there is high probability it allows iTerm2 to be selected.
Pro Cmd+Shift+I to Input all
Wanna SSH your server from multiple tabs, here you go.
Pro Intuitive
Pro You only need to type in commands once
iTerm2 can store up to 4M of history of commands you already used. This, coupled with the built-in search features makes it possible to type a command only once and then search for it through the history for subsequent uses.
Pro Works perfect with Oh My Zsh
It's a perfect base to add Oh My Zsh on top of it and enjoy a lot of themes and a really pleasant look and feel.
Pro Works well with tmux
The great mouse and clipboard support that are built-in go really well with tmux.
Pro Any key can be mapped to any function
Using the Preferences Menu you can set up hotkeys to map virtually any action you can think of to a single key or a combination of them. This is extremely helpful as it allows you to use shortcuts to edit commands you are typing in the terminal and while most terminal emulators have shortcuts for this sort of thing, few of them let you define your own.
Pro GPU-rendered, blazing fast and super smooth
Many people say they use Kitty or Alacritty because they are GPU-rendered. That was true a long time ago. But iTerm2 has been GPU rendered for years now. It's so fast and smooth that you soon forget you are in a terminal.
Pro Beautiful, minimalistic and elegant UI
It's super-clean and during use it gets completely out of the way, it's a beautiful canvas for your terminal work, a pure joy that never gets old.
Pro Can be configured as a drop-down terminal
Can be configured to work as a drop down terminal like Quake.
Pro Cmd+D to split plane vertically
Very handy to use multi-tab.
Cons
Con Not open source (free/libre)
This application is proprietary, and thus cannot be modified, freely distributed, or trusted to be secure.
Con Inability to fill password sometimes
You have to fill twice to make it work.
Con Default is subscription model
It's really hard to find out how to obtain a full license.
Con Support sucks
Support does sometimes does not read requests thoroughly, and offers ham-baked or non-workable sulutions.
Con Unintuitive and slow responding UI
A hot mess of desktop applications and browser plugins that are supposed to work together, but don't always do. Browser plugins frequently become unresponsive and are very basic in comparison to other solutions.
Con Lack of Google Drive sync
Only icloud, wifi and Dropbox support.
Con Tough/impossible to get on Chromebook
Con Does not auto-fill and generate passwords in Microsoft Edge for Windows 10
The 1Password Edge extension doesn't work as well as in other browsers, as it can't auto-fill and generate passwords. Only LastPass seems to have a fully-functional browser plugin for the Edge browser at this time.
Con Unreasonably high price
It has a high monthly subscription price.
Con Keycodes are not passed through following Linux standards
If you come from a Linux terminal emulator (Gnome Terminal, Konsole...) and you rely on key-combos that are widely supported in those, porting the same functionality to iTerm is possible but will require a lot of research and configuration on your part, so account for a long painful adoption period.
Con Not quite as fast as Alacritty or Kitty
Comparing these 3 terminals on the same machine/config, iTerm stands out as the slowest of the bunch. The difference may not be noticeable to all users.
Con Way too many menu items and settings
Finding the right one is like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Con Doesn't support Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Some people still use Snow Leopard or other 32-bit systems.