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by ahelwer 1854 days ago
After lastpass's recent policy changes around free multi-device use, I finally decided to switch password management services. I don't really mind spending like $10/year for password management but lastpass was slow/buggy/frustrating enough that I didn't want to pay for it.

The whole process took probably three minutes front-to-back. Lastpass lets you export your passwords in a CSV, which you then upload to any other service which automatically imports them. Very easy. If you're frustrated with lastpass I recommend the switch. Personally I chose Bitwarden because it's open source.

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I also switched from LastPass to Bitwarden, and over the past couple years of using it I have had zero criticisms.
Bitwarden has worked great for me. Use it for personal stuff. At work we are stuck with lastpass, and it's such a pain to use.

My only complaint about bitwarden is that folder management in the macos app is not great. Adding passwords to new folders requires writing in the entire directory path. And i have to memorize the entirety of it, writing it incorrectly leads it to create new directories with those badly spelled names.

I've been a lastpass premium users for a few years. The thing that annoy me the most is lastpass somehow really slow down any page that has a lot of text fields on it. A webapp I regularly used was so slow (often freeze for 2-3 minutes when displaying a huge form) I thought the developer probably didn't care about performance at all (seem to be using react), but nope, turns out lastpass was the culprit. After disabling lastpass, the page with the huge form now loads in seconds instead of minutes. I wonder what lastpass do with the dom to cause this massive slowdown.

Anyway I decided to move to bitwarden last week and it works pretty great. No noticeable slowdown at all.

One thing I wish Bitwarden would add is the ability to make templates, and also the ability to add barcode-type fields, which would generate the actual barcode when viewed.
It doesn't export attached files if you have those. Didn't tell me that either (though it was over a year ago now).