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, 5 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 1 out of 5by Yaestro, 2 days agoSlows down YouTube even if autofill is disabled. Slowing down browsers (even Chrome) for over a year. Will try an alternative.
- Rated 1 out of 5by frxrnk, 2 days agoThe add-on has massive performance issues and slows down pages a lot, especially if they have many dynamic elements, which is now very common. It often causes freezes and sluggish animations/scrolling.
I was hoping it would stop the constant scanning for form fields on page changes by disabling "Show autofill suggestions in form fields", so it only does its scan when autofill is requested with the shortcut or from extension panel, but it made no difference.
Only excluding the domains worked, but then why have the add-on at that point. Disabling it significantly improved general navigation.
I hope they address the add-ons performance concerns soon, as they have one of the better products out there. - Rated 5 out of 5by iz, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18757095, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Velorum, 5 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19528584, 10 days agoPoorly coded, booting the latest edition of firefox as of 2025/10/17 opens multiple copies of the app asking you to log in to your passwords, doesn't detect settings well, doesn't detect autofill in firefox is off and keeps asking to turn it off, pretty janky rubbish, I expect americans coded this
- Rated 5 out of 5by xymoryn, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by taracdia, 18 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 9999798, 22 days agoWas working great for years but now it doesn't want to auto-fill the ID and PW with almost all sites. I have a vault with about 100 sites. Very annoying to have to manually copy and paste the ID and PW. Tried various settings including turning off Firefox passwords features.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jean Mendoza, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15516830, 23 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19502199, 25 days agoDoesn't sync with app. Have to manually sync multiple times to get it to work.
- Rated 5 out of 5by CoconutMoon, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nathan, a month agoGood, espicially since its free and they dont push you to a subscription
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18848139, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kicajec19, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ShaneV, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Laren, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Irina, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by lrmr, a month agoWhat I find absolutely frustrating is the apparent lack of synchronization of access data across different devices. It either doesn’t happen at all or takes days to complete.
It’s really annoying to always have to log in to the web version just to access the most current and complete version of your login data.
A manual “Synchronize” button would be extremely helpful! - Rated 5 out of 5by danilo, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Actr, a month ago
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