I had been a happy Bitwarden user (paid) for several years after migrating from 1Password, and I routinely recommended it to others. Unfortunately, Bitwarden's December 2024 UI replacement is an utter tire fire. Everything is relentlessly clickier. Rare tasks (such as editing credentials) are UI-privileged over common tasks (such as entering credentials into sites).

This rating is a warning, Bitwarden: usability is not optional, and "pretty" is not a substitute for it. I'm about to cancel my membership and check out Buttercup and KeePass. I expect my recommendations to shift accordingly.

Terrible new UI, please revert to classic.
Edit to dev reply: this is not a solution, I want everything to be changed back to classic, not some half assed change. Why is it so hard to understand that people like things the way they are and don't like forced change down our throats for no reason at all?
The devs are mass copy pasting this comment below for any and all negative comments without reading any amount of context, the cope is hard and real.

The extension has problems with connecting on login attempts to the desktop app for confirmation of biometric verification. I regularly have to resort to manual password entering....
It's becoming worse with the latest updates...
Experience on Acer Spin3 2-in-1, 2020 model.

Been using bitwarden for years, but the last update has left me questioning whether I will renew next year. The new UI is absolutely terrible. If you insist on using this new layout, please include an option for those of us who want it to restore the functional UI

New update makes UI/UX really bad. Form filling stopped working altogether. Please bring back form filling and remove clutter and too many options from UI

My favorite app and extension. But please, restore the previous UI — it was soo much better and intuitive.

Otherwise, it's a great password manager, thank you!

Bad UI and UX after new update. New design wastes too much space, it takes more clicks to achieve the same objectives, muscle memory from years of use is completely destroyed. I feel the design enforces a single type of user's preferences and disregards the rest as can be seen by the hugely negative feedback on here and reddit.

Would be 4 or 5 stars but the recent UI changes made it slower to use (more clicks) which for a tool you use a lot makes zero sense.

Update: thanks for the response, I've edited the review to reflect these settings. Still missing a quick copy for the TOTP codes though.

You broke it. Never NEVER do form over function for critical systems like password management. There is not even any improvements I have noticed just different. At a minimum change the fill to not be a tiny stupid button but the whole login card and make edit be the little button if anything.

Decent on desktop, basically broken on android. I wanted to try out a more secure way of storing my passwords, but Bitwarden is inconvenient to use.

New design is not good.

The latest updates are big step back in usability and UI.

Well, I'm giving five stars back. It turns out, there was a way to disable this tiny "fill" button. Thanks for the answer, Bitwarden team! The design is still not that clean and slick as it was even with "compact mode" on, but I guess it's what we are stuck at the moment. All in all, here are your 5 stars!

Lay out is ugly and very 'DOS 1990', but as far as I can judge now, system as such is safe.

Give us the old UI that doesn't SUCK back.