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I've been using Bitwarden since just after it launched. I've yet to have any issue with it. The desktop, browser, and mobile clients are all seamless and... wel

I've been using Bitwarden since just after it launched. I've yet to have any issue with it. The desktop, browser, and mobile clients are all seamless and... well, just work. I was part of the LastPass exodus after their acquision and used 1Pass with Windows and (then) OSX. The lack of Linux client was a hassle, and eventually left me shopping around. I tried Keepassx and the others, but I ran into issues with sync (most likely my error.) I saw Bitwarden mentioned here and gave it a swing. Importing everything only took a minute, and I haven't looked back. It works on all operating systems, has 2FA, etc etc. It's perfect for my needs. At some point in the future I may go self-hosted.

whydoineedthis 7y ago
yup. similar journey. I think LastPass is going out of business - we were enterprise subscribers last year and it was impossible to get in contact with support when our license expired. couldn't even get in contact with a sales person - they literally didn't want our money anymore. Switched to BitWarden and am so much happier with the interface and such better pricing than 1password, plus i feel have always been upfront with their product development while 1password has been, um, sorta shady, imho.
- stevewillows 7y ago
  that's crazy about LastPass. It was a decent product for its time, but password managers evolved quite quickly over the past few years. My beef with 1Pass is that they charged around $35 - $50 for their standalone product during the exodus, and about a year later moved to their subscription platform --- pretty much abandoning development for the standalone users. The OSX application was far less buggy than the Windows client. And when you needed to grab a new copy of the standalone client, it was buried on their site in a FAQ. 1Pass should have offered a few months for free to pull the standalone folks over to the new service, but instead they said 'we don't have any offers, but feel free to contact sales' -- which is a difficult sell when compared to the newly polished Bitwarden that works on all systems and browsers out of the box without any requirement for payment or a subscription. All this said, we're technical people, so we're more aware of sketchy practices and are quick to jump to different products, and may not be their target -- especially with their previous lack of Linux support.
  - bigiain 7y ago
    FWIW, at work the 1PW cloud/subscription thing is a _very_ good thing, and easily worth what we pay for it. I just don't want to have my personal password db on other people's computers, and their ever more forceful pushing to get me off the standalone apps synced between my devices over wifi has _finally_ got me looking around for alternatives. I'm _totally_ happy to pay for an alternative - I _do_ value software (especially this type of software), and Id love to be sure whatever I use has a reasonable change of being around (and being successful) in the timeframe of at east 5-10 years. Bit I totally get that AgileBits are heading in the direction where my work is their target customer, and I am not. That's fine. I'm pretty sure I'd be making exactly that same decision if I ran/advised AgileBits.

whydoineedthis 7y ago

yup. similar journey. I think LastPass is going out of business - we were enterprise subscribers last year and it was impossible to get in contact with support when our license expired. couldn't even get in contact with a sales person - they literally didn't want our money anymore. Switched to BitWarden and am so much happier with the interface and such better pricing than 1password, plus i feel have always been upfront with their product development while 1password has been, um, sorta shady, imho.

stevewillows 7y ago
that's crazy about LastPass. It was a decent product for its time, but password managers evolved quite quickly over the past few years. My beef with 1Pass is that they charged around $35 - $50 for their standalone product during the exodus, and about a year later moved to their subscription platform --- pretty much abandoning development for the standalone users. The OSX application was far less buggy than the Windows client. And when you needed to grab a new copy of the standalone client, it was buried on their site in a FAQ. 1Pass should have offered a few months for free to pull the standalone folks over to the new service, but instead they said 'we don't have any offers, but feel free to contact sales' -- which is a difficult sell when compared to the newly polished Bitwarden that works on all systems and browsers out of the box without any requirement for payment or a subscription. All this said, we're technical people, so we're more aware of sketchy practices and are quick to jump to different products, and may not be their target -- especially with their previous lack of Linux support.
- bigiain 7y ago
  FWIW, at work the 1PW cloud/subscription thing is a _very_ good thing, and easily worth what we pay for it. I just don't want to have my personal password db on other people's computers, and their ever more forceful pushing to get me off the standalone apps synced between my devices over wifi has _finally_ got me looking around for alternatives. I'm _totally_ happy to pay for an alternative - I _do_ value software (especially this type of software), and Id love to be sure whatever I use has a reasonable change of being around (and being successful) in the timeframe of at east 5-10 years. Bit I totally get that AgileBits are heading in the direction where my work is their target customer, and I am not. That's fine. I'm pretty sure I'd be making exactly that same decision if I ran/advised AgileBits.