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Secrets

Small apple-only password manager you unlock with a one-time purchase

Price: $59.99 once

Paid upgradesMajor versions cost again

Buy on the App Store Website

Price read on apps.apple.com, the page Buy on the App Store opens.

The catch

Editing and Sharing unlock separately; both together is $79.99, not $59.99

The full picture

Major versions have been paid upgrades — the $49.99 "Upgrade" purchase sitting next to the full unlocks is the tell — so budget for a new major every few years. The honest all-in one-time price is $79.99 if you want sharing, and $59.99 only buys editing. Apple platforms only: no Windows, Android or Linux client and no web vault, so a mixed household is the wrong fit. Sync is iCloud and nothing else. It is also a two-person operation, which cuts both ways.

Pays back in
11 months
Seats
No Mac count statedSold through the App Store, so one purchase covers the Macs, iPhones and iPads on your Apple account rather than a stated number of seats.
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$59.99Rent 5 years$325

$265 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against Dashlane Premium at $65 a year, current App Store in-app annual price. Also replaces 1Password Individual at $48 a year.

What it looks like

Secrets: Full Secrets Mac window in light mode: traffic lights, search field, All Items / Favorites / Logins / Wallet tabs, the alphabetised item list (Apple, BiG, Booking, Driver's License, Evernote, Expedia) with type glyphs, the floating + button, and the detail pane for the selected Evernote login showing username, masked password, a live one-time password with countdown, Services/HTTPS row, modified/created stamps and the Edit button.
Full Secrets Mac window in light mode. Vendor site (secrets.app homepage asset)
Secrets: The same Secrets Mac window in dark mode — identical list + detail layout with the purple-highlighted selected row.
The same Secrets Mac window in dark mode — identical list + detail layout with the purple-highlighted selected row. Vendor site (secrets.app homepage asset)
Secrets: Secrets item editor in edit state (Cancel / Done, icon and title fields, Username) with the password generator expanded — generated string, length slider, ABC/abc/123/#+= character toggles — plus Services, Notes, Tags, Attachments and 'Move Login to trash'. Partial window crop with the app's shield mark overlaid at the top.
Secrets item editor in edit state (Cancel / Done, icon and title fields, Username) with the password generator expanded — generated string, length slider, ABC/abc/123/#+= character toggles — plus Services, Notes, Tags, Attachments and 'Move Login to trash'. Partial window crop with the app's shield mark overlaid at the top. Vendor site (secrets.app homepage asset)

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Secrets is what a password manager looks like when the people making it have no growth targets. It is a Mac, iPhone and iPad app, it syncs over iCloud, it fills logins in Safari and the usual browsers, and it holds cards, bank details, notes and TOTP codes. There is no dashboard trying to sell you a VPN and no vendor account: the encrypted database is a file, and Outer Corner never sees it.

The purchase structure is the unusual part and worth understanding before you pay. The app is free and can always read your vault, which matters more than it sounds — if you stop paying you never lose access to your own data. Editing is a $59.99 unlock. Sharing, for handing individual items to family or colleagues, is another $39.99, or $79.99 for both at once.

The thing to price in is the next major version. Secrets has charged for majors before and the listing still carries an upgrade purchase, so treat this as roughly ten to fifteen dollars a year amortised rather than a one-off.

Skip it if anyone in your house runs Windows or Android, or if you want a browser-based vault you can reach from a work machine. This is deliberately an Apple-only app for one person's devices.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • People leaving 1Password report the import working cleanly and the day-to-day feature set covering what they left behind
  • It is repeatedly described as a well-made native app rather than a cross-platform port, with the icon handling and biometric unlock singled out

Criticised

  • The recurring hesitation is the size of the developer - more than one poster says they will not trust a password vault to a studio this small or this unknown, however good the app looks

Details

The price in full

Free download that can always read your data. One-time unlocks on the App Store: Editing $59.99, Sharing $39.99, or Editing + Sharing together $79.99, with promotional tiers at $44.99 and $29.99 appearing on the listing. A standalone "Upgrade" purchase is listed at $49.99, and subscriptions ($2.99 a month, $29.99 a year) are offered as an alternative. One purchase covers macOS, iOS and iPadOS.

The Secrets page at secrets.app
The developer’s own page. secrets.app, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Yes
Apple Silicon
Native
On Setapp
Yes
Minimum macOS
not stated
App Store rating
4.6 from 186 people
Developer
Outer Corner, Unipessoal LDA

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