If you can soldier past the inconveniences, Bitwarden has almost everything you could need or want in a password manager. It’s not perfect - Bitwarden has a clunkier user interface and the experience is definitely rocky compared to LastPass, but these are issues you can easily overlook when you’re as salty as I was (I’m coming around, but it’s taking a while). Bitwarden was the one that popped up everywhere: It’s free with unlimited password storage and syncing across unlimited devices (and device types), nd, more importantly, it’s highly secure, open source, and unlikely to hold my passwords at gunpoint and demand $36/year a decade after luring me in.īitwarden is an open source password manager with a free plan that will “stay free forever,” and a paid plan that costs less than a third of what other password managers cost.

So I immediately started looking for other password managers, more out of spite than thriftiness. I certainly did - I’d been using LastPass for over a decade at the time, and while I wasn’t against paying for a service, especially not one I absolutely derived so much value from, the sudden switch in the middle of the pandemic made me feel like they were asking for ransom.

Lastpass to bitwarden