I've heard a lot about KeePass, but never really tried it. My main goal with a password manager was that it should just work and be realiable, and Bitwarden seems to fill in the need at the moment.
I've been using Bitwarden for a bit over a year and generally been happy with it, but when my next renewal comes up I'm intending to switch to 1Password. (I think, that'll be in ~10 months, so I have some time to choose).
Why? I actually like BitWarden quite a bit. I like that it's open source and has been audited. I use it on Linux, my Chromebook and Android phone, and Firefox and Chrome browsers and it works very well. My wife uses it on iOS and didn't complain.
It is very nice that it has a 2-person free plan to try out. That how I first tried it, and for me and my wife sharing it, it worked just fine. You do have to pay to get TOTP 2 factor integration, so I got the family plan, and we also got it for work.
So why would I switch?
It's fairly clunky. Turns out, while my wife wasn't complaining, she also finds it "ugly". Which isn't the full reason to change, but... My co-workers really struggle with it.
The biggest issue is that often when you are adding items, the fact that you have to add it to a collection is scrolled off the bottom of the screen, and adding it adds it to your personal collection. Once you do that you can't move it to the shared group, you have to start over. Organizing passwords isn't really obvious, we used to have a password manager with a hierarchical structure and are struggling without it. Bitwarden has folders, but it's unclear that they do anything. It has collections, but likewise there's no real visualization. So you end up searching for everything and if you don't know what to search for you are kind of lost.
In short: I like BitWarden, but there are definite UI rough edges, especially difficult with multiple using it, and since Aug 2019 there's been no change.
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Why? I actually like BitWarden quite a bit. I like that it's open source and has been audited. I use it on Linux, my Chromebook and Android phone, and Firefox and Chrome browsers and it works very well. My wife uses it on iOS and didn't complain.
It is very nice that it has a 2-person free plan to try out. That how I first tried it, and for me and my wife sharing it, it worked just fine. You do have to pay to get TOTP 2 factor integration, so I got the family plan, and we also got it for work.
So why would I switch?
It's fairly clunky. Turns out, while my wife wasn't complaining, she also finds it "ugly". Which isn't the full reason to change, but... My co-workers really struggle with it.
The biggest issue is that often when you are adding items, the fact that you have to add it to a collection is scrolled off the bottom of the screen, and adding it adds it to your personal collection. Once you do that you can't move it to the shared group, you have to start over. Organizing passwords isn't really obvious, we used to have a password manager with a hierarchical structure and are struggling without it. Bitwarden has folders, but it's unclear that they do anything. It has collections, but likewise there's no real visualization. So you end up searching for everything and if you don't know what to search for you are kind of lost.
In short: I like BitWarden, but there are definite UI rough edges, especially difficult with multiple using it, and since Aug 2019 there's been no change.
Plusses though: Their support is super friendly.