[fri_sch]

> All of that said Bitwarden is a fantastic product and I recommend that over every other server-based password manager out there.

Do you want to share what makes you think Bitwarden is superior to other selfhosted, open-source solutions (e. g. Passbolt, Passwork, Psono)?

[seized]

So far, Bitwarden has an Android app (two of those didn't), has been security audited (I didn't see anything for those other ones), and the biggest thing is Bitwarden has a much better pricing structure around non business users. It has a free tier and plans for families/non business users, as well as business use. Those others had nothing comparable that I could see except for a limited free tier.

Feature wise (ignoring the mobile apps), some of those seem to have some comparable features like emergency access, sharing, folders, etc, but locked behind a pricing structure that makes them less useful.

So from a look at those other ones, Bitwarden is the superior product for non business/security conscious family use at least. And for business use I don't see how those other ones are better anyway.

[fri_sch]

I admit Bitwarden is probably the most advanced, but the alternatives I named above (Psono, Passbolt, Passwork) seem not that far behind and some of your research seems a bit superficial.

> Bitwarden has an Android app (two of those didn't)

That's just wrong. All three of the alternatives I mentioned have an Android app. I haven't used any of them, though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.psono.pson...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.passwork.p...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.passbolt.m...

> has been security audited (I didn't see anything for those other ones)

A quick search turns up at least some auditing activity:

Passbolt: https://www.passbolt.com/incidents

Psono: https://doc.psono.com/admin/asvs/overview.html (self-audit)

Looking more closely at Passwork, they claim to have open/auditable source code, but I can't find any public code. So they are out of the game anyway.

> Bitwarden has a much better pricing structure around non business users. It has a free tier and plans for families/non business users, as well as business use. Those others had nothing comparable that I could see except for a limited free tier.

Psono's full-featured enterprise version is free for anyone with up to 10 users. I don't see any such generous offer at Bitwarden or elsewhere.

And both, Psono and Passbolt offer unlimited business tiers for only 3€ per user per month which seems to be in the range of what Bitwarden costs. I don't really see your argument for the pricing.

[rstuart4133]

There is some serious thought going into Bitwarden.

For example, what happens if I get hit by a bus? Oh, they've already thought of that: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/emergency-access/

The peculiar problems faced by families, work organisations, 2fa - they've put some time into thing about every sub-problem I've come up with.

Well, just about everything. I'd love if they would let me run my own read only backup servers - ie, a server that mirrors my data stored on theirs, that my device will connect to if theirs isn't up, and that supports a read only version of the web interface.

[jaywalk]

For me, it's that you don't have to self-host it if you don't want to. You can seamlessly switch between self- and cloud-hosted.

[fri_sch]

All three of the alternative solutions I mentioned above have cloud/SaaS versions as alternative to the selfhosted tiers.