Reviews for Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden Password Manager by Bitwarden Inc.
Review by disp.name.temp
Rated 5 out of 5
by disp.name.temp, 10 months agoEven with the current growing pains it is worth it to use. It has become a necessity to use a PW manager, and I believe it is not realistic for the layman or average user (I count myself here from several perspectives) to self-host/implement/configure encryption or critical security systems where a mistake ends your life.
BW is priced quite fairly and works most of the time. I recognize of course that they (probably) cannot make everyone happy; the subreddit is filled with complaints about the aged interface, and when the rework comes, it is then filled with the complaints of the change-averse. And on and on.
The primary frustration for me is on Android. For whatever reason, mainstream Android itself creates a labyrinth of permissions, 'battery management,' other switches, and lack of root that have lead to a platform in which Bitwarden is not 100% reliable to execute all its functions with the authority required. For me (no root), even unleashing the app and handing it 'accessibility' daemon persistence doesn't make it whole.
There are some sites/situations where Bitwarden will not be called up when you face a login. More and more sites lately do not reveal a text field for password input until a username or email is entered and passed to the server. Login challenges inside of many apps (outside web browser) are often simply not recognized. When this is combined with the fact that devs, including Mozilla, typically make no provisions for users to set and use hotkeys on mobile devices, you may find yourself with an interrupted workflow, flicking and typing through menus to access your needed credentials to copy-paste on the site or app. It feels really bad when encountered, but I don't believe the situation is Bitwarden's fault.
On a computer, I would press alt-z to *force* bitwarden to paste credentials, or alt-a to instantly access the vault sidebar with a list of all logins for the current page, but I have not found a way to do something like this yet on my mobile (even though AnySoft keyboard, for example, allows the use of functions like Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-a)
BW is priced quite fairly and works most of the time. I recognize of course that they (probably) cannot make everyone happy; the subreddit is filled with complaints about the aged interface, and when the rework comes, it is then filled with the complaints of the change-averse. And on and on.
The primary frustration for me is on Android. For whatever reason, mainstream Android itself creates a labyrinth of permissions, 'battery management,' other switches, and lack of root that have lead to a platform in which Bitwarden is not 100% reliable to execute all its functions with the authority required. For me (no root), even unleashing the app and handing it 'accessibility' daemon persistence doesn't make it whole.
There are some sites/situations where Bitwarden will not be called up when you face a login. More and more sites lately do not reveal a text field for password input until a username or email is entered and passed to the server. Login challenges inside of many apps (outside web browser) are often simply not recognized. When this is combined with the fact that devs, including Mozilla, typically make no provisions for users to set and use hotkeys on mobile devices, you may find yourself with an interrupted workflow, flicking and typing through menus to access your needed credentials to copy-paste on the site or app. It feels really bad when encountered, but I don't believe the situation is Bitwarden's fault.
On a computer, I would press alt-z to *force* bitwarden to paste credentials, or alt-a to instantly access the vault sidebar with a list of all logins for the current page, but I have not found a way to do something like this yet on my mobile (even though AnySoft keyboard, for example, allows the use of functions like Ctrl-c, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-a)
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18061917, 2 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19803897, 14 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18285082, 5 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18792336, 6 days agobiometrics doesn't work. won't connect to the desktop app it says it needs or the native android app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by jb, 9 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ravshan Samandarov, 9 days agoIntegration does not work at all and the team does not know how to fix it. Unprofessional paid service, I am not going to prolong my subscription.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jisk, 10 days agoI used this for a long while and still have the app, but the extension's disabled. It reliably fails to unlock the vault, it just loops back to the unlock prompt without even a password field. But at least it's not actively harmful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tl, 11 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by hnxeast, 12 days agoFor some time now, when entering the PIN in Bitwarden, the input is cleared before it can be confirmed. Only after entering the PIN a second time does it remain stable and allow confirmation. This issue occurs in both Firefox and Chromium browsers; I have not tested others. Bug or a security problem? It leaves me with an uneasy feeling
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19675361, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19782365, 13 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by awawawaawawa, 13 days agoworks reasonably well but has a lot of annoying bugs that just seem to be getting worse over time. recently my biggest annoyance right now is that when I enter my PIN it sometimes doesn't register all key presses or sometimes just straight up deletes some of them for some reason.
- Rated 5 out of 5by PrettyKoolGuy, 14 days agoLove Bitwarden. Please add Customizable vault item templates and Additional Pre-defined item types (like Wifi passwords, SSH, database connections, etc.) Proton Pass implements them elegantly, and I would love to see these features come to Bitwarden.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18597091, 17 days agoOverall a good addon, but I have an issue when entering the PIN code – it suddenly deletes the text and I have to type it again. Bug ??
- Rated 3 out of 5by UN Official, 17 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Jake Hillion, 17 days agoGenerally a very good password manager, but a flaky add-on. I rely on Touch ID a lot and the add-on has had a bug for a very long time where Firefox full screen on macOS will be knocked out of fullscreen when you Touch ID. Also, the biometrics very rarely work first time after a reboot. Minor annoyances add up for something as frequently used as a password manager.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14039548, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Craole, 19 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by zemixboy, 20 days agoThe Bitwarden extension in Firefox version 115.33.0esr (64-bit) on Windows 7 64-bit installs but doesn't work. When clicking the "Bitwarden" icon on the extensions panel, the popup window appears and the loading circles spin indefinitely. The Bitwarden website logs in and works normally, but the extension does not work. For Google Chrome browser, the Bitwarden extension works correctly. Please fix the bug in Firefox. How to reproduce the problem? Uninstall the Bitwarden extension from Firefox — restart the browser — reinstall the Bitwarden extension — and it does not work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abin John, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by matthus, 23 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17525595, 24 days agoThe keyboard shortcut does not work for some reason.
- Rated 3 out of 5by crash, 24 days ago