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I've been wanting to move away from LastPass for a while now for different reasons - it feels very heavy and clunky. It's slow and the autofill can be glitchy.

Does anyone have any recommendations from this perspective? 1password seems more Apple-oriented, but my devices are all Windows (chrome), and Android.

There's lots of discussion here about "terrible UI," but I imagine none of these password managers are consistently great across all platforms. E.g. Someone using an app solely on a linux desktop in Firefox will obviously have a vastly different experience than someone using the app primarily on an iPhone with safari.

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I just switched (literally in the last hour) from Lastpass to Bitwarden. Quick painless import and works great across iOS, Firefox (browser extension) and native client.

Free and open source (client and the server too if you want to self-host).

We moved away from LastPass for the reasons you mentioned and for the problem that I couldn't recover the password of a business account. The account was just not usable and they couldn't even delete it, so once someone made a mistake while opening it, their email address was blocked. I think they fixed this since we moved, but 1Password is not standing in my way and does everything reliably and quietly.

They have apps for all (mobile) OSes and even a native Linux app, what I really appreciate. I just saw they also have a CLI, I have to test this, too.

I'm just a happy customer with ~60 users and not affiliated.

I use 1-password and I don't agree with it being Apple-oriented. Their integration with Apple OSs is awesome, but their Windows solutions work really well as well.

I'm very happy with it.

I am very happy with Bitwarden. Fully open-source (including the server), free tier has everything I need (and the premium is just $10 a year), self-hostable (and there are even alternative server implementations). The UI isn't "sleek" but you'll get used to it very quickly. And it has a nice import wizard that will walk you through the process of exporting your passwords from other password managers.

I recently migrated from LastPass to 1Password. Honestly it's been great. The UI is better, sharing vaults is easier, they have integrations with haveibeenpwned.com, and integrations are seamless. There's no free tier, but the cost feels worth it to me. I was able to get my whole family on 1Password without too much hassle.

Hasn’t been mentioned elsewhere here but I can recommend MasterPassword anecdotally, which has a novel approach to cross-device password management.

I found 1password on windows to work just great. It's not as great as the Apple version but it's way better than the alternatives.

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