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megamikelast Saturday at 8:49 PM9 repliesview on HN

what are some bitwarden alternatives?


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dabber21yesterday at 3:24 PM

I went with the classic: KeepassXC + Syncthing

All locally synced

There are sharing options but they are not really convenient, not a problem for me since I mostly don't share passwords

arbitrarianyesterday at 3:08 PM

Keepass or one of its variants are great. Pair it with a shared folder via SyncThing/GDrive/Dropbox/whatever and you'll be set.

Brendinoooyesterday at 4:40 PM

Kinda funny. I helped get passit.io off the ground YEARS ago but we pivoted away from it because Bitwarden more or less ate our lunch. They just moved way faster.

Passit still works! Just as a webapp + chrome and FF extensions. I think we had an Android app too, dunno if that's still a thing.

Maybe if the best open source option is a less viable option, I should poke at its creator to revive it...

RockstarSprainyesterday at 3:03 PM

Proton Pass. Not ideal but actively developing and IMO its UX is way better than what I had with Bitwarden.

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paulrudyyesterday at 6:27 PM

I've been keeping my eye on AliasVault[1]. Open-source, self-hostable or pay for cloud hosting, handles both email aliases and passwords.

I'll probably switch for password management once it has a proper security audit, and for email aliases once (if) they implement IMAP/SMTP or similar so reading emails isn't restricted to in-app.

[1]: https://www.aliasvault.net/

dgavrilovyesterday at 8:09 PM

Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/

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hamdingersyesterday at 4:19 PM

For the closest experience, self-host Vaultwarden and keep using the bitwarden clients you're used to. They're GPL-3.0 and aren't going anywhere (and could be forked if there was ever drama).

If you want to fully disassociate from bitwarden, there are vaultwarden compatible 3rd party clients. I like Keyguard.

gonzalohmyesterday at 3:11 PM

Depends on what you are looking for. I use keepass to store my password + syncthing to sync across devices

hirvi74yesterday at 3:18 PM

I left for Apples Passwords.app and never looked back. Of course, that has its own limitations if you are not bought into Apple's ecosystem.

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