1Password on iPhone

This week the creator of the infamous password-management utility for the mac, Agile Web Solutions has debuted their iPhone-based password tool allows users to login to a database of password stored on the iPhone or iPod Touch and read, write, check passwords. If you have the desktop version of this program (which every mac user should, it AMAZING!) you can sync your already stored passwords onto your iPod Touch or iPhone via wifi. Oh, and the best part is that the iPhone version is free! I have posted screen shots of the interface here…

This is the splash screen you see while the app loads. It’s a fairly fast app to load in my experience with about 400 items in my password-database.

When this app loads you’re presented with a 4-digit passcode. It will be four digits, and is used to log in, but for items you mark as sensitive you’re presented with a password. (Of course you set this up when you first download the app.)

Your passcode is protected while you type it, again it will only display this for a second, once you hit the 4th digit it will automatically authenticate.

This is your password database, you will notice my various (and fake) entries.

This is when you go to enter a new or edit an existing entry, this strongly resembles Apple’s address book interface.

This is the next tab over, “Notes”. You can keep secure notes here (these are synchronized from your desktop, but I have yet to need this feature).

This is when you “tap” to create a new note. From here you select the data you’d like to enter (the note name, the note) and you can switch “Master Password Protection” on which means that past the authentication (four-digit code) you will need to enter another password (can be really long).

The third tab from the left is the sync, this will search your wifi network to see if there are any 1Password desktop-clients running on any macs. (Note that you actually need to open and authenticate yourself on the desktop version before attempting to sync everytime, the first time there is a pairing code you must enter from iPhone/iPod Touch to Desktop.)

This is when it finds a 1Password on the network, it displays an icon and the computer names (presumably you could sync multiple machines to an iPod Touch/iPhone).