Being limited to just one category of devices puts a serious dent in the service’s usefulness. LastPass recently restricted its free service to a tough choice: pay up, or be restricted to using it with either computers or mobile devices.
You could, theoretically, host the backend infrastructure yourself. Even the server-side synchronization component is open source. Bitwarden offers browser extensions and apps for all common operating systems. Three years ago, I migrated to Bitwarden as LastPass just kept cutting features and platform support.īitwarden is an open-source alternative to the proprietary LastPass password manager. I eventually got with the time and started using LastPass. It comes down to keeping my passwords out of the browser, and my setup simple and manageable.įor years, I was (and still am) unwilling to trust hosted password manager services. Here’s why I decided to move my passwords to a KeePass database file instead of using Bitwarden with a self-hosted server.