Is 1Password – Password Manager safe to install?

What data it declares

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data:

• Personally identifiable information such as name, address, email address or age
• Financial and payment information such as transactions, card numbers or credit history
• Location such as region, IP address or GPS coordinates

The developer also certifies that your data is not sold to third parties outside approved uses, not used for purposes unrelated to the extension's core function, and not used to decide creditworthiness or lending.

The listing links to a privacy policy.

This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

What Chrome asks you to allow

When you add it, Chrome asks you to allow it to:

• Read and change all your data on all websites
• Manage your downloads
• Manage your apps, extensions, and themes
• Communicate with cooperating native applications
• Display notifications
• Change your privacy-related settings
• Read your browsing history

Derived from the manifest by Chrome's documented rules; the dialog's exact wording depends on your Chrome version and language. Chrome asks again if an update requests more.

What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

Reaches your browsing data or every site

• See, enable and disable your other extensions management
• Talk to an application installed on your computer nativeMessaging
• Change your browser's privacy settings privacy
• See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
• Watch the network requests your browser makes webRequest

Worth knowing

• Block or redirect requests on the sites it can access declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
• Manage your downloads downloads
• Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
• See when you navigate between pages webNavigation

Routine for an extension

• Schedule work to run later alarms
• Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
• Tell whether you are away from the computer idle
• Show you notifications notifications
• Store data in your browser storage
• Declares webRequestAuthProvider

Who uses it and how it is kept up

7.0M users

• Last updated in the store 3 days ago, on 2026-10-01.
• We have seen 3 new versions in the last 90 days.

What the store shows

• Established publisher The store's badge for publishers with a good record and no history of violations.
• Trader The publisher has declared itself a trader under EU rules.

The listing says it offers in-app purchases.

Has it asked for more over time?

This is the question a permission list on its own cannot answer. An extension that shipped narrow and widened later is a different proposition from one that always asked for the same thing.

1. 2026-09-09Asked for fewer permissions (16, was 17)

Versions we have seen

1. 2026-10-01Version 8.12.38.34
2. 2026-09-11Version 8.12.37.1
3. 2026-09-09Version 8.12.36.40 · Asked for fewer permissions (16, was 17)

Who publishes it

1Password, who publishes 3 listings we track. This listing has been in the store since 2017-11-15 and was last updated on 2026-10-01.

Similar extensions that ask for less

Listings close to this one in what they say they do, which declare less reach. Less reach is not a verdict on either: compare what each needs for the job.

1. Passave Access to specific sites only · 2 permissions, 1 site pattern 8 users ★ 5.0
2. Passwarden by KeepSolid – Password Manager Access to every site · 4 permissions, 1 site pattern 1k users ★ 3.7
3. UniPass — Password Manager Access to every site · 5 permissions, 1 site pattern 3 users

How to check or remove it in Chrome

1. Type chrome://extensions in the address bar and find the extension in the list.
2. Open its details. The site access setting shows where it can run; set it to run only on click and it reaches a page only after you press its icon.
3. To uninstall it, choose Remove on the same page.

Questions people ask

What can 1Password – Password Manager access?

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open. It declares 15 browser permissions.

What data does 1Password – Password Manager collect?

The developer declares that it collects these kinds of data: Personally identifiable information, Financial and payment information, Location. This is the developer's own declaration in the Chrome Web Store. We cannot check it against what the extension does.

Has 1Password – Password Manager asked for more permissions over time?

Its permissions changed once while we watched, on 2026-09-09.

Does 1Password – Password Manager publish a privacy policy?

Yes, the store listing links to a privacy policy.