Bitwarden

★★★★☆

As password managers go, I like Bitwarden better than LastPass. It’s got a better track record certainly, and it’s encrypted in a way that makes it really difficult for someone to break into your vault, but it’s still a cloud service, which carries some risks.

It’s got a web app, mobile app and browser extensions, of course, and the browser extension (Chromium-based, Firefox-based and Safari) has a convenient keyboard shortcut to auto-fill on demand. There’s also a desktop app, which is useful when logging into desktop or command-line applications. I haven’t used the mobile app, but the others run more smoothly than LastPass.

As well as passwords, it’ll store SSH keys and payment cards, and it can act as a TOTP authenticator. That’s certainly convenient, but it kind of defeats the purpose of having two-factor authentication, if you’re using the same vault for a password and its 2FA codes.

It does share the same problem I’ve found with LastPass and KeePassXC-Browser, which is when you generate a new password for a site that’s already in your vault, it doesn’t always get updated automatically. I’ve taken to copying the generated password to the clipboard just in case I need to paste it back into the login record.

Personal accounts have a free tier, and the current pricing is reasonable ($20/year individual, or $48/year for a family of up to 6). In addition to shared vaults, organizations can self-host their vaults, which provides more control and keeps the vault inside your network.