Reviews for Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden Password Manager by Bitwarden Inc.
Review by Andreas
Rated 5 out of 5
by Andreas, 5 years agoChanged from Lastpass a week ago and took 2 friends with me, which I share items with. After intense testing my final opinion is: LastPass is good, Bitwarden much better!
Pros:
Loads faster, can be opened in the sidebar, has an autofill option which seems to work a little better than LastPass, great layout - items much less space consuming, custom fields work phantastic and are shown in front of the card, even the field detecting algorithm can be customized, programmable via a realy nice CLI, OPEN SOURCE.
Cons:
When editing your vault using the web-vault, the browser extension and maybe the CLI all at the same time, you must not forget to sync the extension and the CLI respectively. Automatic syncing with the web vault (updates only, inserts and deletes are reflected immedeately) is done every 30 minutes by default. Anyway, thats a clear concept - opposed to LastPass, which had 'Refresh Site' and 'Clear Cache' but no explanation when what would be necessary.
Sharing seems a bit complicated and with less possibilities compared with LastPass. There could be a better help how to set up for a good sharing experience - who should create which organization with which collections? How do the personal vault and the organization vault coexist?
After understanding the Bitwardens organization concept for sharing, I admit that this is much better than the easier LastPass options for sharing. A shared item changes the ownership, its owned by the organization. All items you are granted access by the oranization shows up in your personal vault. A perfect solution, as there is nothing in between the needs of an organization and the needs of a personal vault.
Pros:
Loads faster, can be opened in the sidebar, has an autofill option which seems to work a little better than LastPass, great layout - items much less space consuming, custom fields work phantastic and are shown in front of the card, even the field detecting algorithm can be customized, programmable via a realy nice CLI, OPEN SOURCE.
Cons:
When editing your vault using the web-vault, the browser extension and maybe the CLI all at the same time, you must not forget to sync the extension and the CLI respectively. Automatic syncing with the web vault (updates only, inserts and deletes are reflected immedeately) is done every 30 minutes by default. Anyway, thats a clear concept - opposed to LastPass, which had 'Refresh Site' and 'Clear Cache' but no explanation when what would be necessary.
Sharing seems a bit complicated and with less possibilities compared with LastPass. There could be a better help how to set up for a good sharing experience - who should create which organization with which collections? How do the personal vault and the organization vault coexist?
After understanding the Bitwardens organization concept for sharing, I admit that this is much better than the easier LastPass options for sharing. A shared item changes the ownership, its owned by the organization. All items you are granted access by the oranization shows up in your personal vault. A perfect solution, as there is nothing in between the needs of an organization and the needs of a personal vault.
9,202 reviews
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Gravitypopsicle, 2 days agothis BW add-on had slowed down a little recently from a few months, but now it has been about a week and it launches and performs smoother than ever! Fav password manager forever 💯💯💯
- Rated 5 out of 5by Piomio, 2 days agoExcellent password manager. Much better since the last update. The latency issue has disappeared.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19837517, 3 days agoImporting passwords from my default password manager into bitwarden was a nightmare. After it was activated, the login details on sites like google were not filling in, making this add-on absolutely unusable in both chrome and firefox.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zeteo, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18945998, 6 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Aayush Chawla, 6 days agoI couldn't get biometric unlock to work on Windows 11. Otherwise it's a great extension.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Exostenza, 7 days agoIt's a potentially good service with seemingly all the features you'd want in a service like this but they don't always work or are all even present. I find a lot of the time it either won't suggest to unlock the extension when clicking on a login or password field and even the fill in keyboard shortcuts don't work - its been too intermittent to tell if it is only some sites or just a randomly triggered bug. Also very annoying, when I click to fill in a login and password it'll prompt Windows Hello Fingerprint randomly in the background so I have to click on it on the taskbar instead of it showing up in the foreground all the time as it obviously should. I also bought it for the premium features while the Firefox extension doesn't even have the advertised anti-phishing feature yet which is one of the reasons I paid for premium. So, they are advertising features that aren't even available which I think is dishonest which doesn't inspire trust in the company and their practices - it is strange that the supposedly most secure browser seems to be the least supported.
The above poses instant issues when considering the service for tech illiterate people as these problems are deal breakers. I want to set this up for my boomer mother who has been successfully phished several times but the fingerprint in the background bug will definitely make her think it's not there and therefore not working. Also, the non-existent anti-phishing feature advertised for the premium edition literally takes away the reason I would consider paying for a premium account for her.
These are all, however, grievances that could be easily fixed with competent non LLM vibe coding done by a real human being which could easily bump my rating up a star or two and pay for premium for my boomer mother but for now Bitwardem is mediocre at best and I can't recommend paying for premium to anyone and even the free version's bugs may pose problems depending on your tech literacy.
Bitwarden devs: you're close but you have to fix these things before I can recommend the service. - Rated 5 out of 5by Marcos Nakamine, 7 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Apollox, 9 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by DeezNuggets, 9 days agoGreat product, but they (or FF) broke the dropdown password selector in a recent (last few days) update. Now it always says: "No items to show".
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rob, 10 days agoGarbage constantly failing, printing cryptic error messages, not taking my pw, not taking my 2FA, reinstalled, works for a few then same crap.
Just garbage, avoid if you can. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19816335, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19794085, 16 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Daesp, 16 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14548792, 17 days agocan't login, cant change to .eu on extension, it's out of view
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jjuhis, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ilnanny, 18 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by hedmunky84, 19 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12946356, 20 days agoFirefox is covering the Bitwarden suggestions, terrible UX.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18061917, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19803897, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18285082, 25 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18792336, a month agobiometrics doesn't work. won't connect to the desktop app it says it needs or the native android app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by jb, a month ago