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A subscription is a subscription, whether you sign up for one month, one year, or three years — it makes no difference. Subscription software is out of the question for me. Since I still have a perpetual license, I will continue to use Enpass for the time being. However, my search for alternatives has revealed some interesting password managers that I am currently reviewing in more detail. Once I have made a decision, I will begin the migration so that I can leave Enpass immediately if the situation worsens and perpetual license holders are forced to switch to a subscription. I firmly believe that this will happen in the foreseeable future. Otherwise, they could have offered a fair perpetual license model, as other software providers do. For example, offering a perpetual license and updates for one year at a fair and reasonable price. I realize that software development and maintenance cost money and that the developer company needs to make money. But this must be done in a fair manner so that I, as a customer, do not feel cheated. Subscription models are not a fair way to sell software to private customers. For a company where employees are constantly coming and going, and licenses are therefore added and removed, a rental model makes sense because it can be constantly adapted to needs. For private users, a subscription model is simply expensive. When I consider how much time I spend using the software and how much work I put into it (in the case of a password manager, maintaining the data), it is extremely important to be able to rely on still being able to access the software and the content created with it tomorrow. No matter how low the monthly subscription fee for the software is, as soon as I can't pay it — for whatever reason — I lose everything I've done with the software, and that adds up to a lot over time. That alone makes subscription software so expensive for me that I'm not willing to use it. I always have to pay at a certain time in order to continue accessing my own assets. This completely takes away my control over my budget. If I subscribed to all the software I use, I would spend a large part of my income on regular payments. With purchased software, I have control over my budget and I am the one who decides whether and when I spend money or not. So you can expect me to be a former Enpass user in the foreseeable future. That makes me a little sad because I really enjoyed using the program as it has many features that I find useful and helpful. I switched from 1Password to Enpass because Enpass was offered as a purchase license, while 1Password was only offered as a subscription and with the requirement to use their cloud.