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by lucideer 963 days ago
Bitwarden's UI is far from perfect but I find it better than any competitors I've tried (LP & 1Pass).

1Password feels cleaner, more integrated & polished but in practice the UX is inferior to BW - most regular actions take more clicks & discoverability is lower. And the password generator is even worse than LP's.

Lastpass UI is well known to be poor - Bitwarden's is far less worse by every metric.

Bitwarden's not perfect but what's significantly better UI-wise?

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I can't speak for the other password managers, but I find Bitwarden's organization management to be pretty terrible. As a personal password manager it's pretty good, but as an organization password manager, not so much.
Having to manually type a folder path to create nested folders is horribly archaic.

/ Paying Bitwarden user

I think they fixed that. Can't verify at the moment.
Apparently there is two different things, Collections and Folders. Folders exist for personal vaults and collections for organizations. No idea why you can't use folders in organizations.
Yeah you're right. I think folders are more like a "tag" in that it's not actually a container (I think you can even put stuff from an Organization's collections in your personal folders).

Anyway, with Collections, you used to have to create a collection and enter the name as Some/Thing, to get a hierarchy going. But I think they improved that so that you can just create that hierarchy of collections int he web gui as if they were folders in folders.

Nothing beats www.enpass.io but they charge now. I still ran the free version (free version not available for download anymore).
> store and sync passwords wherever is best for you

So, how would you access that cloud account in the first place? Unless you remember the password and disable 2FA for that cloud account, unless of course you add another 2FA manager which is just an extra non-needed complexity.

I find Enpass to be great for personal use at least. I've never tried it for business use. Luckily I paid for it when the Android app was $6.95 and got you lifetime usage on all platforms. They recently added passkey support.
I never installed it on Android. I use it only on my computer. But I use it also a lot as an organizer since it is so flexible. Has also my ID scans, Degree scans etc.