My password manager search ended after trying KeePass vs. Bitwarden last Thursday

I spent 3 hours manually copying passwords from a sticky note into KeePass before my buddy laughed and showed me Bitwarden - the autofill alone saved me from locking myself out of my bank account again. Has anyone else tried switching and found one way easier than the other?

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ninas7020d ago

Gotta stop you there for a second - KeePass isn't really something you copy passwords into manually from a sticky note. I mean, you can, but the whole point is it generates and stores them for you so you don't have sticky notes at all. Maybe it's just me but spending 3 hours typing them in sounds like you were doing it the hard way. Bitwarden's autofill is definitely nice but KeePass has it too if you use the browser extension. Both are solid though once you get past the setup.

sanchez.mia20d ago

Add that a lot of people forget about the whole portable angle with KeePass. I mean, you can literally throw the database file on a USB drive and use it on any computer without installing anything. Bitwarden's great don't get me wrong, but it's cloud dependent unless you self-host. Maybe it's just me but having something that works fully offline with zero account required is a big deal for some folks. Plus being able to sync it however you want instead of being locked into their servers.