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What's the main point of Bitwarden or competitors over traditional password managers such as KeePassXC? Better autofill features?


Multi-device access, browser integration, mobile platform integration, and sharing with spouse or team members. I know there are solutions to some of those based on some variant of KeePass, but using something like Bitwarden is very easy. Bitwarden is really nice in that you can host the server yourself (or use bitwarden-rs), so you're not having to mess around with WebDAV or some other storage sharing mechanism.


What I’m getting is "it’s easier to set up"?

Though one more point that’s more than just "ease of use" is probably shared access. AFAIK Keepass has issues there while bitwarden (IIRC) supports it completely.


Advantages of bitwarden:

- conflict-less sync; with KeepassXC, I learned to live with keepass-diff, once the inevitable sync conflict happens

- no need to have entire app running, or even installed; in browser, the extension is enough. KeepassXC was a kind of annoying to launch.

- password sharing

Advantages of KeepassXC:

- can autofill http auth dialogs; bitwarden still cannot do this

- can serve as ssh agent, so synced database takes care of your ssh keys too




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