If aWallet or aWallet Cloud is installed on the same phone, aWallet Next finds your existing vault by itself:
Install aWallet Next and open it.
On the welcome screen, tap Import from aWallet Cloud (or Import from aWallet).
Enter your existing master password. The data is decrypted and re-encrypted into the new format entirely on your device.
That is all. Categories, entries, fields and icons carry over. The original app and its data are left untouched: aWallet Next uses a different file name (data.crypt2) by design, so nothing can be overwritten. If the original app is on another phone, copy its data.crypt file over and choose Restore backup ▸ From a file on the welcome screen, or import a CSV export later in Settings ▸ Vault.
aWallet Next recognizes the original app's purchase on the same device and honors it, free and without a subscription:
aWallet Cloud: cloud sync of the vault and biometric unlock
Pro inside aWallet (in-app purchase): biometric unlock
How it works, and the one rule to know:
The honor applies on the platform and device where the original app is installed. aWallet Next checks the original app's purchase on that phone; it does not travel with a sign-in and nothing is transferred through us. On a second phone, install the original app there too (a free re-download on the same store account) and the honor appears there as well.
Keep the original app installed. The honor lasts exactly as long as the original app stays on the device. If you uninstall it, aWallet Next returns to the free tier at its next start; reinstall the original app and the honor is back. The original app does not have to be opened again, just installed.
If you have both original apps, the stronger one counts: installing aWallet Cloud later adds cloud sync to the honor for Pro inside aWallet.
A refunded purchase is no longer honored.
The new Pro features (AutoFill, live 2FA codes, attachments, tags, passkeys, the full Security Center) are subscription-only. Try them with the free trial, or stay with what you had before, free.
Passkeys: store, sync and sign in with passkeys
2FA codes with QR scanning, next to each login
AutoFill for passwords, one-time codes and passkeys
Attachments: photos, documents and videos, each encrypted with its own key
Security Center: health score, private breach checks, weak, reused, old and missing-2FA detection with guided fixes
Recovery Key, optionally split into shares, so a forgotten master password is not the end
Modern cryptography: Argon2id and 256-bit XChaCha20-Poly1305 (how it works)
More sync options: iCloud Drive (iOS), Google Drive, Dropbox, WebDAV, with conflict detection
One subscription for iOS and Android, linked with an Apple or Google sign-in
Tags, Recycle Bin, and the privacy cover now on iPhone and iPad too
This is the biggest change from the original apps, and you deserve a straight answer.
A one-time price funds building an app once; it does not fund keeping it alive. A password manager today is connected software that has to keep moving: iOS and Android change their AutoFill, passkey and billing rules every year; Google Drive, Dropbox and OAuth requirements change on their own schedule (long-time aWallet Cloud users have seen exactly this break); security best practice keeps advancing; and the passkey ecosystem is moving every quarter. A subscription means the app's income depends on it staying excellent, not on a constant stream of new buyers.
What keeps it fair:
The free tier is genuinely usable: unlimited entries, the generator, Recycle Bin, templates, and CSV import and export. Many users never need more.
What you already bought stays bought, as described above.
Your data is never hostage. Viewing, editing, deleting and CSV export of everything you stored stay free forever, subscribe or not, cancel or not.
Import of your old aWallet data is always free.
A free trial, monthly or yearly (yearly is cheaper), and on the App Store Family Sharing: one subscription covers your whole family.
One subscription for iOS and Android. Sign in with Apple or Google in Settings ▸ Subscription on each device, with the same account, and Pro works on all of them. The sign-in only links the subscription; it never touches your vault.
The original apps keep working. Nobody is forced to move; the security page is honest about the old format still being safe with a strong password.
For less than the cost of a coffee a month you get a maintained, modern vault for the logins that control your money, your email and your identity, and a developer with every incentive to keep it that way.