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Comment by megamike

2 days ago

what are some bitwarden alternatives?

I went with the classic: KeepassXC + Syncthing

All locally synced

There are sharing options but they are not really convenient, not a problem for me since I mostly don't share passwords

Keepass or one of its variants are great. Pair it with a shared folder via SyncThing/GDrive/Dropbox/whatever and you'll be set.

Kinda funny. I helped get passit.io off the ground YEARS ago but we pivoted away from it because Bitwarden more or less ate our lunch. They just moved way faster.

Passit still works! Just as a webapp + chrome and FF extensions. I think we had an Android app too, dunno if that's still a thing.

Maybe if the best open source option is a less viable option, I should poke at its creator to revive it...

I've been keeping my eye on AliasVault[1]. Open-source, self-hostable or pay for cloud hosting, handles both email aliases and passwords.

I'll probably switch for password management once it has a proper security audit, and for email aliases once (if) they implement IMAP/SMTP or similar so reading emails isn't restricted to in-app.

[1]: https://www.aliasvault.net/

Proton Pass. Not ideal but actively developing and IMO its UX is way better than what I had with Bitwarden.

For the closest experience, self-host Vaultwarden and keep using the bitwarden clients you're used to. They're GPL-3.0 and aren't going anywhere (and could be forked if there was ever drama).

If you want to fully disassociate from bitwarden, there are vaultwarden compatible 3rd party clients. I like Keyguard.

Depends on what you are looking for. I use keepass to store my password + syncthing to sync across devices

I left for Apples Passwords.app and never looked back. Of course, that has its own limitations if you are not bought into Apple's ecosystem.

  • Apple apparently has an iCloud app for Windows that syncs passwords and provides extensions for major browsers. I had no idea.

    • The Windows app for iCloud Passwords works fairly well, no real complaints about it to share. It can sometimes be a bit clunky and slow, though that's likely related to my environment rather than the app itself.

      Would love it a ton more if it could offer an experience similar to BitWarden where you can view notes linked to logins or autofill credit card details with a single click from the browser extension. But overall it's really helpful.