Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
I really, really want to be a big fan of Bitwarden. I even used it for the past year and a half. However, the last time HN talked about Bitwarden 7 months ago, I listed some reasons[0] why Bitwarden still fell massively short of 1Password, and I feel that those three points have not been addressed (which I believe impacts the friction/convenience of using Bitwarden).<p>My three points then were:<p>1. A stand-alone desktop app. Quite annoying to have to open up a browser every time I want to access a password. Basically, it's as inconvenient as Keychain on OSX if you're not using a browser when you need a login info. This could be solved if the browser plugin popup could be persisted as its own window.<p>2. iOS app is not polished. Not sure about Android app as I've not used it. (* biggest problem then was how slow search was. It has been improved although nowhere as fast as 1Password's—still)<p>3. In the Safari extension, I would love to be able to search and use item entries that are not specific to the domain. Sometimes, I have other info in secured notes or password entries without a domain that I want to get to from the extension. In these cases, I've had to leave the browser and open the actual app to get access to them.<p>I just migrated from Bitwarden to 1Password a few days ago and have been much happier since—especially with 1Password's ability to generate 2 factor tokens and put them in your pasteboard automatically so you don't ever have to pull up an Authenticator app!<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15734260" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15734260</a>