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by piaste 2166 days ago
I self-host Bitwarden and I haven't even bothered to install the desktop app. Since I have a browser open at all times, I just use the browser extension.

Also, I think the Android client is quite a bit better than Keepass2Android.

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I tried bitwarden once and didn’t like it (can’t remember why, don’t care, no interest in switching ;) ), so I never tried their mobile client. But I’d be interested in what’s better than K2A, I think the modern Android experience with it is awesome.
A few things I remember: adding new entries was clunkier in k2a because I had to tap multiple times to select things like category/folders that I didn't care about. Bitwarden has better URI matching as I could choose the matching rule. BW has better search, or rather it displays search results in a more useful way. The autofill service also seemed to work more reliably, and I don't think k2a showed the matching logins right in the autofill drop-down menu, but I could be misremembering there.

Ultimately though it was the browser extensions, combined with the self-hosting option, that sold me on BW. None of the Keepass plugins I tried over the years worked that well. BW has extensions for both Firefox on Android and Vivaldi on desktop that are as solid as anything I've tried.