KeepsakeKeepsake vs 1Password
1Password is excellent and you should probably use it. It also has a document attachment feature that people press into service as a family vault, and that is where the comparison gets useful — because 1 GB of attachments is not a document vault.
Can I just keep my documents in 1Password?
For a handful of scans, yes — 1Password is end-to-end encrypted and includes about 1 GB of file storage (Individual from $3.99/month, Families from $5.99/month for up to five people). But it stores files without understanding them: no OCR filing, no extracted expiry dates, no renewal alerts, no family-document workflow. Keepsake does those on your device from £19/year, and the two work well side by side — passwords there, documents here.
| Keepsake | 1Password | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Document vault with intelligence | Password manager with file attachments |
| End-to-end encrypted | Yes | Yes |
| Where files live | Your devices + your own cloud | 1Password's servers |
| Document storage | Unlimited on Premium, your own storage | About 1 GB |
| OCR / reads your documents | Yes, on-device | None |
| Expiry alerts & renewals | Yes — 30/7/lapsed, calendar feed | None |
| Identity fields lifted from documents | Yes | Manual entry into item fields |
| Family sharing | Family Vault, key-based, up to 6 | Families plan, up to 5, shared vaults |
| Price | Free / £19 yr Premium / £29 Family / £79 Teams | From $3.99/mo Individual, $5.99/mo Families |
| Password management | Not our job | Best in class |
Keepsake prices are in pounds sterling (£); 1Password's are its own published list prices, quoted in their original currency and unconverted.
When 1Password is the better choice
- Passwords, passkeys and secrets — 1Password is better at this than anything else, and Keepsake does not compete.
- You want secure notes and credentials shared with your family in the same place as a few document scans.
- Browser and mobile autofill, which is a whole discipline we have no ambition in.
When Keepsake is the better choice
- Scale and shape: hundreds of documents, filed automatically, searchable by their contents rather than by the title you remembered to type.
- Deadlines: the reason most people lose money on paperwork is a date nobody watched. 1Password has no view of expiry at all.
- Storage economics: 1 GB of attachments fills quickly with scans, while Keepsake writes into the cloud storage you already own.
Questions
Is 1Password less secure than Keepsake?
No — its cryptography is excellent and independently audited, which is more than we can currently say. The difference is scope: 1Password protects secrets, Keepsake manages documents. Where we differ architecturally is that your Keepsake ciphertext sits in your own cloud rather than a vendor's.
Should I use both?
Yes, and that is our honest recommendation: passwords and passkeys in 1Password, documents in Keepsake. They overlap only at the edge where people attach a passport scan to a login item.
Does Keepsake store passwords?
No. It stores documents, reads them, files them and watches their dates. A vault that tried to be a password manager as well would be worse at both.
The honest verdict
There is no fight here. 1Password is the right home for secrets and the wrong home for a family's paperwork — 1 GB, no OCR, no dates, no filing. Keepsake is the right home for the paperwork and has no interest in your logins. The only bad outcome is using the attachment feature as a document vault and discovering, three years later, that nothing in it ever told you the visa was about to expire.