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Switching to Bitwarden

Users overwhelmingly recommend switching from LastPass and 1Password to Bitwarden, citing its superior usability, open-source nature, affordability, and reliability over competitors' issues like restrictions and poor sync.

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warpech • Nov 14, 2019 • View on HN

Bitwarden IMO beats LastPass and 1Password. Very polished, hassle free experience

ratherbefuddled • Jul 23, 2020 • View on HN

BitWarden. Switching our business from LastPass at the moment.I found LastPass painful to use and sync between local vault and server side to be broken. No thought has been given to layout, commonly used options are buried and basic things like selecting the right credentials by subdomain do not work. Their recent UI refresh has simply made things slower rather like Google's admin UIs. They have rather annoyingly decided, against NCSC advice, that I need to see a reminder to pointle

driverdan • Dec 17, 2019 • View on HN

LastPass has been :-( for years. Try Bitwarden. It's open source and much like how LastPass used to be (good).

canbus • Jan 19, 2022 • View on HN

I swapped from Lastpass when they introduced the "single-device" restrictions for free users. Bitwarden has worked flawlessly since.

shafyy • Mar 12, 2021 • View on HN

I've tried LastPass and 1Pass before, and switched to Bitwarden 2 years ago. It's the best!

DiabloD3 • Sep 26, 2017 • View on HN

Switch to Bitwarden, already has a WebExtension extension. Lastpass is basically dead ever since LogMeIn proved they don't care about security of the vault.

sydbarrett74 • Jun 30, 2023 • View on HN

Thank you for weighing in. Guess I'm sticking with Bitwarden. :D

adhamsalama • Jun 11, 2024 • View on HN

Why not use Bitwarden?It's better in every single way.

dstroot • Oct 6, 2019 • View on HN

Thanks - read the post and just switched to Bitwarden!

nacs • Feb 17, 2021 • View on HN

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).