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I see 1password on HN frequently. I opted for bitwarden after leaving lasspass. Any comments on BW vs 1pass?

mewse 6y ago
I switched from 1Password to LastPass because (at the time) 1Password’s support on Windows was rudimentary, and on Linux was basically non-existant. And then I switched from LastPass to BitWarden, because I became uncomfortable with LastPass (for reasons which I don’t recall). And then when 1Password released their 1Password X system which works via a browser extension that works really nicely across Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/etc, I switched from BitWarden back to 1Password again. (caveat: I haven’t actually tested the chrome extension myself; only the firefox and safari ones) RE: BitWarden vs 1Password, they’re pretty similar in most respects. 1Password is arguably more polished (especially in the native OS X app), and has support for storing multiple separate vaults of data (a feature which I don’t actually use). BitWarden has the ability to self-host the server (which I’ve never done, but I very much appreciated that it was an option), and 1Password historically let you just sync your vault file however you wanted to; I had mine in a Dropbox folder to share between computers, for a while, and it worked great. But now with 1Password X, they want you to use their servers. Which obvs is less great, but.. I’m willing to put up with it, personally. (I mean, I was doing the same with LastPass and BitWarden already, anyway). For me, the big killer feature for 1Password is that it can handle “Authenticator” features; scan the QR code into 1Password and it’ll handle the TOTP code for 2FA in addition to your username/password, etc. It’s so much nicer to have it all integrated together in a single flow than to need to find my phone and launch Authy separately every time I want to log into a web site.
- kingcan 6y ago
  Bitwarden can also handle TOTP codes, but you need premium ($10 / year).

I switched from 1Password to LastPass because (at the time) 1Password’s support on Windows was rudimentary, and on Linux was basically non-existant. And then I switched from LastPass to BitWarden, because I became uncomfortable with LastPass (for reasons which I don’t recall). And then when 1Password released their 1Password X system which works via a browser extension that works really nicely across Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/etc, I switched from BitWarden back to 1Password again. (caveat: I haven’t actually tested the chrome extension myself; only the firefox and safari ones) RE: BitWarden vs 1Password, they’re pretty similar in most respects. 1Password is arguably more polished (especially in the native OS X app), and has support for storing multiple separate vaults of data (a feature which I don’t actually use). BitWarden has the ability to self-host the server (which I’ve never done, but I very much appreciated that it was an option), and 1Password historically let you just sync your vault file however you wanted to; I had mine in a Dropbox folder to share between computers, for a while, and it worked great. But now with 1Password X, they want you to use their servers. Which obvs is less great, but.. I’m willing to put up with it, personally. (I mean, I was doing the same with LastPass and BitWarden already, anyway). For me, the big killer feature for 1Password is that it can handle “Authenticator” features; scan the QR code into 1Password and it’ll handle the TOTP code for 2FA in addition to your username/password, etc. It’s so much nicer to have it all integrated together in a single flow than to need to find my phone and launch Authy separately every time I want to log into a web site.

kingcan 6y ago
Bitwarden can also handle TOTP codes, but you need premium ($10 / year).