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I'm all in on Bitwarden at this point. It's the place where I keep all my credit cards, secure notes and about a 500 logins. A vast majority of these logins have passwords generated by Bitwarden itself.

I'm confident even if BW goes down I can still recover my data since the vault works offline too. While the browser extension could use some UX work the mobile apps have been top-notch and sharing passwords with my spouse has been a bliss.

I bought myself a dedicated server earlier in December and will be migrating to Vaultwarden pretty pretty soon.

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Sounds like you're very happy with Bitwarden, and confident that if they go down you wouldn't lose access to your secrets.

Can I ask why the desire to switch to Vaultwarden? I assume if a significant slice of the userbase did this, the project would suffer—so I'm asking this question genuinely as an avid Bitwarden supporter myself.

I hope they don't have to rely solely on VC funding, seems that VCs motives would be precisely orthogonal to my own in terms of privacy and feature roadmap.

I trust bitwarden enough as of now and I don't see any privacy issues with them..... yet!

The main reason I'm switching is for the fun in it and having my data under my complete control. And, to save some money, for me and some friends, for whatever it is worth.

I run Vaultwarden and still buy a license. I wish they’d offer an optional self-hosted license specifically for those who want to support the project while hosting their own server.

Are you buying a license just to support BW? Or is there any other benefit?

Not them, but vaultwarden doesn't accept the license file, so it's surely just to support. I'm planning on doing the same thing at some point.

Note that file attachments are not stored in the json file that contains the vault, so if you care about those you still have to back them up some other way.

I'm aware of this but thanks for reminding! You can also do a full search for such specific entries like this btw:

>attachments:*

How good is for iOS/OSX? I use enpass and if I don't open it all the time (and retype the master pwd!) then it not catch most logins and now I have a lot of that into the Apple system instead.

I wonder which one is truly transparent (I work mostly on Mac/iOS but still need other platforms)

I’ve been using Bitwarden for 2 years now, and I feel like completion has continuously improved. It uses the built-in auto fill feature on iOS and it works pretty well. Whenever I see a login form, I see the auto fill toolbar appear. I click on it, unlock Bitwarden with FaceID and it auto fills fine.

I had quite a few apps in the beginning where I needed to manually open BW to copy paste my username/password, but it doesn’t seem like it occurs to me anymore.

I use BitWarden on iOS and it is pretty much same as the default iOS auto fill (which is iCloud?). It uses the system auto fill service and the detecting of password fields to show the auto fill option and filling the password is done by that service, not BitWarden. You can actually use two active auto fill services (say BitWarden and iCloud, I did when I was testing the waters), you will get a prompt to choose which one you want to use.

Speaking of the browser extension UX, for those who don't know, the keyboard shortcut for filling in your login details is ctrl-shift-L.

Please document your migration (and backup strategy!)

Sure. When I do the migration, I will come back to this and keep you posted!

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