Sure, Go for it. I've been using KeePass for a long time now and I am very satisfied with it. Aside from the security and privacy (Which you know is BEST out there), It comes with many customizations too. I used to use BitWarden but now I use KeePass.
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Great to hear. One thing I liked about Bitwarden is that you change choose Aegon2id and its KDF iterations, etc. Is that standard? Can you do that in keepass?
Don’t be evil!!
I will conti UE to self-host Vaultwarden and use the BitWarden clients until I feel the clients are not trustworthy or they are forked.
This is the email I received at the begining of the year when there were multiple articles about the price increase.
I think it's important to note that you may have missed or deleted the email, or it potentially could have gone to your junk folder, but they did send out emails letting people know.
I got the same email with 25% discount for this year. Can't argue with lack of transparency on that and it's a bit unreasonable to expect no price increases ever
Yeah. If you're using the services that might required a paid subscription, it's not out of the realm of possibilities for there to be a price increase eventually.
I'm not discounting that there's the potential for a pivot to less transparency and auditability going forward, I just wanted to point out that this wasn't done with no warning.
I don't trust the company that bought them. Private equity is almost always a bad time for consumers/users.
The CEO apparently is a big private equity guy, and those bloodsucking ticks only know how to do one thing: Suck every last drop of money and goodwill from the company and its customers as quickly as possible.
Breaks my heart, I've been a massive Bitwarden advocate for years. Been happily paying for the individual paid plan. I'm now working on setting up KeyPassXC with syncthing.
Does KeyPassXC have passkey and TOTP support?
Both, yes
Yes. For passkey, you need to install the browser plugin and enable support in the preferences.
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If you or someone you trust happen to have a home server, just install Vaultwarden, which is the community fork of Bitwarden without any fees, shady stuff or reliance on Bitwarden infrastructure.
I know this options exists, but honestly I don’t think I have reliable enough infrastructure. It’s hardly ever offline, but my backup game is super weak, and I have had to rebuild from scratch once in the past three years.
What happens if I fuck up again and have to rebuild? Just feels like a massive potential failure point.
Your backup is all your clients. Every client has a blob. If you loose it export and then import. That is if everything else fails.
If you look real close side by side there is a subtle difference....
Suuuper easy to stand up, took me about 20 minutes to get it up and running
Well, when u say supereasy to set up, i don't know. The need for reverse proxy was driving me nuts. For someone that doesn't expose anything to the outside world, the need for a reverse proxy is overkill in my opinion. But i did hive up fairly easily, so i'll have another go in the future when i have time. For now my Syncthing + Keepass setup will have to do but i do find its not 100% robust. If i have keepass open on both mobile and laptop, i'm at risk of loosing changes. If the change is made on one device and i close after change, i won't see the change until i close keepass on the other device. But by then syncthing thinks that the latter is the most recent change and marks the file of first device as conflict file. So the chsnge is not lost but its not in the most "recent" version of the database.
It got bought by a company owned by Vista Equity partners, a private equity firm.
The loss of values happened at Citrix when it was Vought by Vista. They installed Tom Krauseasthe CEO to gut it from the inside out.
Everybody should have an exit plan ready to be able to leave bitwarden
Lol.. From Transparency to "Just Trust Me Bro".
I know right. Even in an Enterprise environment why would trust be a better word to represent your values over transparency
I guess it's time to move on, I'll check PrivacyGuides for a better alternative while I compare by myself too.
I'm not gonna allow a quiet price hike, this is scummy and anti-consumer.
Bit warden is undergoing enshittifcation in real time. It’s interesting to watch.
Great resource. However, I remember one of them recommending straight up poor advice (and I think suspected sponsored recommendations), and the community shunned them for it. I just can't remember if its https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ or https://www.privacytools.io/
The bad one is privacytools.
Thnx
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Yeah, I switched to KeePass for the same reason. The only way I trust software is if they'll show me the code, and the only reason to replace "transparency" with "trust" IMHO is because they want to go closed source. Innovation also tends to just mean 'we're going to be charging you for features that used to be free '
It much work to get all the names and passwords and stuff from BW moved over to keepass?
Not really, just had to install KeePass on my computer and export my bitwarden passwords BW makes that easy to do) and import them to KeePass. I haven't set up the browser extension yet, as at a glance it says it doesn't work with browsers installed with flatpak and that's how I have LibreWolf installed. Setting up syncthing was also pretty straightforward.
Sweet. Thanks.
I never use browser extension for my pwm anyway. Just the pwm apk on my phone and thats about it. Seems less likely for any shenanigans to happen that way.
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Bitwarden was taken over by private equity just before these changes btw
price almost doubled; it's $19.80 a year now. Still cheaper than 1pass or lastpass, which are $3/month. I don't think they would increase to that much, because 1pass is objectively better.
Totally agree. I've been a multi-year paying customer of bitwarden for the family, always happy with their service, especially when compared with the 1pass I use at work. But that CEO avatar picture alone gives me enough bad vibes, let alone his credentials, the acronym change, so yea I too reckon I've been putting off the switch long enough now.
I came from keepass, can't go back there, even if I now have syncthing set up everywhere. Also, how would that work for the family, you force everyone to set up their own file and hope they manage it well? Highly doubtful.
I saw aliasvault pop up too, this last week. Haven't looked into it yet, and although a great contender, it's probably too young to seriously consider.
These are the alternatives according to selfh.st/apps :
- Vaultwarden
- Password Pusher
- KeePassXC
- Passbolt
- Infisical
- OpenBao
- YeetFile
- AliasVault
- OrigamiVault
Anyone here had some bad experiences with any of these?
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Migrated to Keepass shortly before the price increase ( not because of it) just for the reason of wanting my vault fully offline. Seeing these changes at BW still makes me sad, was a long time paying user & truly enjoyed it
Keepass is fantastiic, my vault is pretty static so just manually copy to other device as needed. And of course, have your full backup plan in place as with all things
didn't KeepassXC go full into vibe coding?
https://lemmy.world/post/47036606/23815574
otherwise that would be the most appealing alternative to me too
I mean they recently posted a pretty reasonable explanation about their usage of AI (https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/ ).
I'm not sure what the guy in your link is referring to since he didn't provide any additional context.
thanks, I haven't seen this before
Well that would make sense. I was actually going to switch to bitwarden back in May after keepassxc decided to corrupt my entire database along with the backup. I had to begin the lengthy process of resetting every single password I have, I was pretty furious and never wanted to touch keepassxc again. But when I went to bitwarden's website I noticed only paid options, so I decided to continue researching alternatives.
So still has these issues. Glad I went to vsultwarden.
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