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KeePass is anything but user friendly or convenient - it involves a lot of tinkering and not a lot of people have time, patience, or even know-how for that. It has never been and I don't see that happening in near future. In comparison LastPass is "sign up once, use everywhere". 1Password royally ignored every other platform other than the fruit company ecosystem for a really long time. See, I am not speaking as a fanboy, I am not one. Just a satisfied user - I have really tried all other apps out there and for some reason or the other I kept coming back to LastPass. Bitwarden came close to make me switch. OSS, polished, and seemingly with a business model. After checking on Elementary Firefox, iOS, Android apps when I went find its Safari extension (that's where I do my personal browsing) - it didn't exist, it still doesn't and the Github issue is clear that they will not be working on that [0] anytime soon. Also, I read a reddit comment that there was only one full time developer and this was few weeks ago[1]. Now I know it's an open source project but I want to use a service that is really ready to be used for my password management. LastPass - it's not really entirely browser based, it's actually available everywhere - Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Ff, Safari, IE, iOS, Android. You name it. And it has been on these various platforms since long. Sync, client side encryption, easy import from other apps, good extensions, decent support ticket TATs (even for free accounts), continuous development (however I must add that they have started to add bloat and useless gloss after the sale) - have really been consistent. This is what makes it a favourite option. So when you say "better designed" I assume you mean better security architecture designed and yes it is ease of use with acceptable security for the most. [0] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/17 [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/7htswv/how_many_... |
Lastpass seems to lack a fair amount of usability polish, but it’s all relative maybe no one is better.
For example, why when adding new sites, it likes retain even super long useless query param strings that clutter the interface. Without going into detail, this is in no way technically necessary for most cases.
Also, they already have the ability to pre-associate common login sites, yet won’t do it for many popular domains. For example, there are a few stack exchange sites with different domains but that use the same credentials. Why should I have to manually set this up for a site that’s not far from the top 100 in traffic on the planet? It’s been requested, they won’t do it. Pay a damn intern to pre-associate the top 500 domains at least when needed.
There are many other practical examples.
But again, maybe the bar just isn’t that high in this category of software.
Edit: What didn’t you like about bitwardem? Haven’t had a chance to try it yet.