Reviews for Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden Password Manager by Bitwarden Inc.
Review by Andreas
Rated 5 out of 5
by Andreas, 5 years agoChanged from Lastpass a week ago and took 2 friends with me, which I share items with. After intense testing my final opinion is: LastPass is good, Bitwarden much better!
Pros:
Loads faster, can be opened in the sidebar, has an autofill option which seems to work a little better than LastPass, great layout - items much less space consuming, custom fields work phantastic and are shown in front of the card, even the field detecting algorithm can be customized, programmable via a realy nice CLI, OPEN SOURCE.
Cons:
When editing your vault using the web-vault, the browser extension and maybe the CLI all at the same time, you must not forget to sync the extension and the CLI respectively. Automatic syncing with the web vault (updates only, inserts and deletes are reflected immedeately) is done every 30 minutes by default. Anyway, thats a clear concept - opposed to LastPass, which had 'Refresh Site' and 'Clear Cache' but no explanation when what would be necessary.
Sharing seems a bit complicated and with less possibilities compared with LastPass. There could be a better help how to set up for a good sharing experience - who should create which organization with which collections? How do the personal vault and the organization vault coexist?
After understanding the Bitwardens organization concept for sharing, I admit that this is much better than the easier LastPass options for sharing. A shared item changes the ownership, its owned by the organization. All items you are granted access by the oranization shows up in your personal vault. A perfect solution, as there is nothing in between the needs of an organization and the needs of a personal vault.
Pros:
Loads faster, can be opened in the sidebar, has an autofill option which seems to work a little better than LastPass, great layout - items much less space consuming, custom fields work phantastic and are shown in front of the card, even the field detecting algorithm can be customized, programmable via a realy nice CLI, OPEN SOURCE.
Cons:
When editing your vault using the web-vault, the browser extension and maybe the CLI all at the same time, you must not forget to sync the extension and the CLI respectively. Automatic syncing with the web vault (updates only, inserts and deletes are reflected immedeately) is done every 30 minutes by default. Anyway, thats a clear concept - opposed to LastPass, which had 'Refresh Site' and 'Clear Cache' but no explanation when what would be necessary.
Sharing seems a bit complicated and with less possibilities compared with LastPass. There could be a better help how to set up for a good sharing experience - who should create which organization with which collections? How do the personal vault and the organization vault coexist?
After understanding the Bitwardens organization concept for sharing, I admit that this is much better than the easier LastPass options for sharing. A shared item changes the ownership, its owned by the organization. All items you are granted access by the oranization shows up in your personal vault. A perfect solution, as there is nothing in between the needs of an organization and the needs of a personal vault.
9,317 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20061624, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by didotb, 2 days agoFor all those using Vaultwarden, you need to update your Vaultwarden server, and the extension will sync up again. -July 26, 2026.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18797053, 2 days agoFirefox extension 2026.7.0 stuck loading with Vaultwarden
After updating the Bitwarden Firefox extension to version 2026.7.0, the vault remains stuck on the loading placeholders and no items are displayed.
Going back to 2026.6.1 fixes it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13539882, 2 days agoTo those come here for a broken update: I updated vaultwarden to 1.37.0 and resynced it's working now.
- Rated 1 out of 5by potato, 3 days agoGo back to 2026.6.1 to get it working with self-hosted again. They broke it for firefox in 2026.7.0. The previous versions are here on the mozilla addons page under Version History > "See all versions" for Bitwarden. I'm not allowed to paste the url.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20058159, 3 days ago2026.07 is broken, cannot show entries when connected to 3rd party server
- Rated 1 out of 5by 4ti11a.us, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Даниил, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20055573, 4 days agoThe extension not working on the newest version is not a problem with bitwarden itself but with the selfhosted vault.
So nothing to complain, great extension and so grateful that selfhosted is supported. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19922097, 4 days ago2026.7.0 не работает со старым Vaultwarden. Обновил Vaultwarden до актуальной версии, работает.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Derp, 4 days agoYou broke it. Newest version get stuck loading the vault and is blank. Can't use it now. Self-hosted. Desktop app and web interface work fine, so I know it's this plugin.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20055976, 4 days agoТекущая версия 2026.7.0 сломана. Расширение не подгружает пароли
Version 2026.70 is broken. Does not load passwords on self-hosted - Rated 1 out of 5by MrCapybara, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20052149, 6 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by pandazorus, 7 days agoThe good:
- does what it says
- cross-platform sync works well most of the time
- free tier more than enough for most use cases
- open source + self-hosting options
The bad:
- the UX is bad and inconsistent, and hasn't improved for years. you get sort of used to it
- serious performance issues with some "dynamic" pages (home assistant in my case)
- was recently bought out by a private equity firm - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18996315, 7 days agoWorks most of the times. But then once in a while it just doesnt save / sync or whatever. Signing in from new PC and some passwords have suddenly vanished. They are on mobile. Updating password on mobile still doesnt update on PC. Relogging doesnt work...
Logging out, reinstalling and logging in, fixed it temporarily. In the middle of a session, the plugin removed itself. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20047461, 8 days agoThe idea behind bitwarden is good, but their understanding of user experience is horrible. They don't listen to community and they spend time and money to worsen their product. It's fcked beond repair.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20006760, 9 days ago