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Bitwarden Open Source Password Manager (bitwarden.com)
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I have been using this FOSS for a little over 5 years now. Absolutely hands down best password manager experience I've ever had. I cannot think of one downside to this software. Easily used across all of my devices seamlessly.

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[–] cuken@lemmy.cuken.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bitwarden is an incredible piece of software. I would recommend anyone looking at self-hosting an instance to look at VaultWarden. It's an alternative implementation to the official Bitwarden server that enables almost all premium functionality.

My only complaint with Bitwarden at all is around offline vault editing (which is such a niche use case). Right now, if you lose connection to the server (either your self hosted, or the official Bitwarden Hosted instance) you are only able to view your vault in read only mode. They have an item in the road map to allow offline editing, but it looks to be a long way out.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 1 year ago

I love vaultwarden. Been using the beta builds to have auto sync work on mobile now. High quality service!

[–] kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com 1 points 1 year ago

I tried Vaultwarden and it’s fantastic, but I ended up going back to a Bitwarden premium sub because I didn’t trust myself to harden it properly. $10/yr is worth it to sleep easier at night.

[–] PR_freak@vlemmy.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used 1password for over two years and switched to bitwarden 1 year ago

Easy transition, however bitwarden is not as feature rich. There are a couple things I miss like vaults and items like database credentials or ftp and so on. The mobile android extension is not as good at picking up login forms

I will still use it rather than 1password for it being free and open-source

[–] LegendofZelda64@lemmy.fmhy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bitwarden definitely has vaults. I believe you just have to pay for the full version to get it.

[–] Cupcake1972@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

or iirc you can get premium features by selfhosting it.

[–] PR_freak@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing that out

From a quick glance at their plans page it looks like they call it collections

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 1 points 1 year ago

Or host vaultwarden

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I would argue that 1Password is a bit more polished, and it seems to more consistently auto-fill passwords and 2FA for me on various websites. I find myself having to manually copy and paste more with Bitwarden.

However, I do appreciate that Bitwarden is open source, and I could self-host it if I became more paranoid. I use 1Password for work and I could actually get it free for personal use because of that, but I choose to pay for Bitwarden's family plan instead. Still working on convincing all my old people that a password manager is necessary, one day I'll get them....

[–] digdilem@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agree totally. A great project that just works. Love it

My employer users Lastpass, a commercial solution. That hasn't been a good experience, with downtime, forced re-passwording and worst, having our details stolen from them.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't they have like 3 security breaches in the last couple of years? They have sucked since they were bought by logmein.

[–] digdilem@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like that. Although some of the issues pre-date logmein on a technical level (they allowed users to set a ridiculously short master password, even for a company that contained all the users' passwords)

Price keeps going up too. Pretty sure we won't be staying with them for long, although it's not my decision.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 1 year ago

That's awful they were my first PW manager like a decade ago. I don't even think it cost $10 for a year at the time. The company I work for is a MSP, we resell bitwarden to businesses; kinda proud of that one.

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[–] erre@feddit.win 3 points 1 year ago

They have a nice CLI which has been really awesome to pair with my dotfiles manager. Definitely one of my favorite and most useful used-daily software.

[–] khoplex@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I swapped to Bitwarden from Lastpass years ago and haven’t looked back since. Glad I got away before their shit got compromised 😅

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I've been really mulling over switching from 1password to Bitwarden.

[–] hellequin67@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I started using BitWarden since I moved away from the apple eco system and moved to Android as I'm only a mobile user phone/tablet.

It's never failed me and even after an accidental factory reset I was able to recover everything.

[–] Obroten54@switter.su 2 points 1 year ago

I used LastPass until they are made free version unusable for my purposes. After some experiments switched to Bitwarden. Can confirm, it is safe and easy to use.

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Agree. I use bitwarden send often as well

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I don't like Bitwarden. The phone client is not easy to the fingers. Useful things are by choice at the top which takes more effort. There are other flaws as well.

[–] PsychoMan@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone sees a reason to use bitwarden over keepass - which seems to me to be possibly clearer in you owning your data?