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by misnome 1625 days ago
I switched to BitWarden when they dropped the subscription requirement for mobile, continued charging for my subscription for over a year and then announced they’d start charging again.

It’s… fine, but many areas of integration with browser and on iOS are significantly less polished and pleasant to use. Things like credit cards are entirely manual on iOS. It’s definitely a worse experience on the convenience side.

That, and even though it’s relatively easy to migrate, it’s even easier to not spend the effort reworking your workflows and ways you use password tools.

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> it’s even easier to not spend the effort reworking your workflows and ways you use password tools.

Yeah, this. I've been using LastPass since 2012 - four years before BitWarden even existed. BitWarden actually looks excellent and I'm tempted to switch, but the easiest thing is just to not do anything.

Although I understand your point from a psychological point of view, in my experience switching from LP to BW was an easy task.You can create a temporary CSV to export your Lastpass vault and import it in Bitwarden. It takes 2 minutes maybe. The rest is just switching which app you use to fetch your passwords.

Although that was prior to the shenanigans this post's article talks about.

I thought it would be time consuming too but it's literally just 1 minute to sign up for an account, export from Lastpass and a 2 click import into Bitwarden.

It transferred EVERYTHING -- passwords, notes, credit cards etc. It's super easy.

Yeah this was also my experience. I expected a world of hurt when migrating to Bitwarden but it just worked!