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How is the user experience of bitwarden vs lastpass?

I find lastpass clunky.. ipad app is flakey (or is it the iOS integration layer itself?)

Integrating with chrome, iOS, etc, I assume is a difficult problem so I've assumed most password managers have the same issues. But it drives me crazy they haven't innovated much either, e.g., searching for specific passwords in my vault. I have to export it to excel and then look for them, then make sure / hope that the excel file didn't drop any temporary file copies anywhere.



I just logged in via Bitwarden on Safari to reply here. My vault is self-hosted via the Vaultwarden project, which is a lighter-weight implementation written in Rust. It is hosted on the free tier of GCP, which is proving more than enough for personal use. The self-hosted server interoperates flawlessly with the official Bitwarden clients. I have no complaints regarding the user experience on MacOS/iOS/iPadOS. However, I was not a fan of the user experience on Android. I recently setup Bitwarden for a couple family members who use Android and it definitely didn't feel as frictionless as it does on my Apple devices. Not sure if that's because of how Android implements password managers or how the Bitwarden app for Android is implemented.




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