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Bitwarden is open source (with $10/year for some extra nice-to-haves if you use their hosted cloud service) and better than LastPass for me personally in pretty much every respect.

I switched approx 2 years ago after the LogMeIn acquisition and haven't regretted it.

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Been hearing good things about bitwarden, just switched in about 2 minutes. As a password manager, Lastpass hasn't really improved with the times, infact it's been getting buggier and buggier with Chrome as times goes on.

It's bee a couple years but the web browser plugins for BitWarden were unreliable. Our power users made it work but our average office user complained non-stop and moved back to using notepad. Maybe BitWarden has improved since then but it was too immature to rollout to the average office user.

I started using BitWarden during their rough phase and can agree it was a struggle. On the computer it is now flawless except for the very occasional web site that codes far enough out of standards that any normal heuristic cannot detect that there is a prompt for credentials being shown. On mobile, it is still a bit hit or miss. I'm on Android 10 (awaiting the OnePlus release of Oxygen OS 11 for my model) and the Firefox Add-on is really good, but there are still places where detection of logins isn't quite right. And in apps on Android, it's also hit or miss. Venmo, for example, required me to do a long press, hit the ellipsis and choose autofill. That's fine for a power user and generally a bit beyond what an average office user would find acceptable. Though I don't have comparison to alternatives - it may just be that these apps aren't "behaving" well with the Android autofill service, and you can't blame BitWarden for that.

Recently, my spouse started using BitWarden on her computer, and she did almost all of the set up and migrating her passwords, and updating weak passwords (we paid the $10/year for the reports) without any help from me. She is above average knowledgeable with software, but having her ask me almost no questions made me think that the software for computer use is ready.

I've been using Bitwarden for a few years and have never had to tweak it. It's not as good as LP was at detecting new logins and the mobile app sometimes doesn't detect password fields but overall it has worked fine. In the cases when it doesn't detect it's not hard to copy / paste.

How does Bitwarden.rs[0] (RUST IMPLEMENTATION) relate to the open source Bitwarden and its hosted cloud service?

[0] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

What does this have to do with anything any why do you expect op knows about it? Also why is it important that its (RUST!!!!)?

It seems a fair place to ask about it, IMO. I doubt they are expecting that only the OP will answer, there seems to be plenty of rust proponents on here.

I know this topic is old by now, but the official bitwarden server is pretty heavy-weight for selfhosting (mssql db, needs >1gb just to start),so some people thought they could do better. This seems to go well because bitwarden is completely open source. But bitwarden_rs is not affiliated with bitwarden and is missing some features from the official version. The bitwarden team seems to also look out for those alternative solutions a bit, notifying them about breaking APIs and so on.

I also switched from LastPass. I find the Firefox Extension and Android experiences in Bitwarden much more intuitive. The autofill on Android works far better in my experience too.

Bitwarden also supports self-hosting their service.

I was an (on and off) paying LastPass user until 4 or so years ago, not because I had to, but because I felt like supporting it.

Switched to Bitwarden after Lastpass were bought and started tightening the grip I think (yep, I'm fairly sure they were testing the waters already 4 years ago).

Still pay Bitwarden (why not, the price is trivial for me at this point and they deserve it).

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