Sure, Go for it. I've been using KeePass for a long time now and I am very satisfied with it. Aside from the security and privacy (Which you know is BEST out there), It comes with many customizations too. I used to use BitWarden but now I use KeePass.
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I will conti UE to self-host Vaultwarden and use the BitWarden clients until I feel the clients are not trustworthy or they are forked.
Bitwarden was taken over by private equity just before these changes btw
I guess it's time to move on, I'll check PrivacyGuides for a better alternative while I compare by myself too.
I'm not gonna allow a quiet price hike, this is scummy and anti-consumer.
Great resource. However, I remember one of them recommending straight up poor advice (and I think suspected sponsored recommendations), and the community shunned them for it. I just can't remember if its https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ or https://www.privacytools.io/
Bit warden is undergoing enshittifcation in real time. It’s interesting to watch.
This is the email I received at the begining of the year when there were multiple articles about the price increase.
I think it's important to note that you may have missed or deleted the email, or it potentially could have gone to your junk folder, but they did send out emails letting people know.
I got the same email with 25% discount for this year. Can't argue with lack of transparency on that and it's a bit unreasonable to expect no price increases ever
Yeah. If you're using the services that might required a paid subscription, it's not out of the realm of possibilities for there to be a price increase eventually.
I'm not discounting that there's the potential for a pivot to less transparency and auditability going forward, I just wanted to point out that this wasn't done with no warning.
I don't trust the company that bought them. Private equity is almost always a bad time for consumers/users.
That's it. Thank you for your service until now.
If you or someone you trust happen to have a home server, just install Vaultwarden, which is the community fork of Bitwarden without any fees, shady stuff or reliance on Bitwarden infrastructure.
If you look real close side by side there is a subtle difference....
Suuuper easy to stand up, took me about 20 minutes to get it up and running
It got bought by a company owned by Vista Equity partners, a private equity firm.
The loss of values happened at Citrix when it was Vought by Vista. They installed Tom Krauseasthe CEO to gut it from the inside out.
Everybody should have an exit plan ready to be able to leave bitwarden
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The CEO apparently is a big private equity guy, and those bloodsucking ticks only know how to do one thing: Suck every last drop of money and goodwill from the company and its customers as quickly as possible.
Breaks my heart, I've been a massive Bitwarden advocate for years. Been happily paying for the individual paid plan. I'm now working on setting up KeyPassXC with syncthing.
Do you know if I can get KeePass working on both PC and Android in sync with Syncthing?
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didn't KeepassXC go full into vibe coding?
https://lemmy.world/post/47036606/23815574
otherwise that would be the most appealing alternative to me too
Well that would make sense. I was actually going to switch to bitwarden back in May after keepassxc decided to corrupt my entire database along with the backup. I had to begin the lengthy process of resetting every single password I have, I was pretty furious and never wanted to touch keepassxc again. But when I went to bitwarden's website I noticed only paid options, so I decided to continue researching alternatives.
I mean they recently posted a pretty reasonable explanation about their usage of AI (https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/ ).
I'm not sure what the guy in your link is referring to since he didn't provide any additional context.
thanks, I haven't seen this before
You're quitting over some words? All this questionable shit and you're quitting cause they changed an acronym? Sheesh....
They are quitting becuase they see another lastpass happening. The new CEO is a toxic private equity leech.
Migrated to Keepass shortly before the price increase ( not because of it) just for the reason of wanting my vault fully offline. Seeing these changes at BW still makes me sad, was a long time paying user & truly enjoyed it
Keepass is fantastiic, my vault is pretty static so just manually copy to other device as needed. And of course, have your full backup plan in place as with all things
Lol.. From Transparency to "Just Trust Me Bro".
I know right. Even in an Enterprise environment why would trust be a better word to represent your values over transparency
Yeah, I switched to KeePass for the same reason. The only way I trust software is if they'll show me the code, and the only reason to replace "transparency" with "trust" IMHO is because they want to go closed source. Innovation also tends to just mean 'we're going to be charging you for features that used to be free '
It much work to get all the names and passwords and stuff from BW moved over to keepass?
Not really, just had to install KeePass on my computer and export my bitwarden passwords BW makes that easy to do) and import them to KeePass. I haven't set up the browser extension yet, as at a glance it says it doesn't work with browsers installed with flatpak and that's how I have LibreWolf installed. Setting up syncthing was also pretty straightforward.
Whoa no flatpak support is a problem. Thanks for the heads up.
I tested this a few weeks ago, but one thing I struggled with was having custom fields imported. Don't know if I somehow did something wrong, but while the export data had them as expected, KeePassXC just didn't import it all? The standard Notes did get imported, but none of my custom fields.
Totally agree. I've been a multi-year paying customer of bitwarden for the family, always happy with their service, especially when compared with the 1pass I use at work. But that CEO avatar picture alone gives me enough bad vibes, let alone his credentials, the acronym change, so yea I too reckon I've been putting off the switch long enough now.
I came from keepass, can't go back there, even if I now have syncthing set up everywhere. Also, how would that work for the family, you force everyone to set up their own file and hope they manage it well? Highly doubtful.
I saw aliasvault pop up too, this last week. Haven't looked into it yet, and although a great contender, it's probably too young to seriously consider.
These are the alternatives according to selfh.st/apps :
- Vaultwarden
- Password Pusher
- KeePassXC
- Passbolt
- Infisical
- OpenBao
- YeetFile
- AliasVault
- OrigamiVault
Anyone here had some bad experiences with any of these?
vaultwarden has an uncertain future with the new bitwarden management -- we would need bitwarden apps that use vaultwarden apis rather than bitwarden. I suppose if bitwarden breaks api compatibility that might happen.
KeepPassXC is what I was using before -- it's like keepass. It has browser integration, but syncing is problematic, and it doesn't have biometric unlock.
if bitwarden breaks api compatibility that might happen
I should think so too. I'd expect a big race to start, like with the kbin/lemmy apps after the reddit api fiasco.
I'm using boost for lemmy btw. It was a great reddit client back in the day, and when the api change was announced they switched to lemmy pretty quickly.
vaultwarden allows you to keep using the bitwarden client i think, just with your own server. should be the most seamless for the family.
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The price is still reasonable for me. I don't want to switch services because they might enshitrify someday.
In the same boat as you.
I don't like how it's changing, I also don't like how the UI is changing and, sadly, as a EU citizen I can't trust it any longer since it is made in the USA.
But I'm no hurry to switch. I mean, I won't rush or worry about paying one more year subscription if I have to. I'll try alternatives as long as I have too. So far, there is
- the Canadian 1Password and
- the non-synced/local but free to use KeepassXC that are standing out.
Both work with Linux.
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