Slightly offtopic, but I really find the Bitwarden Clients to be lacking in the feature department. I switched to Bitwarden a few month ago and the client has evolved (for me) ever since.
There are a few basic features missing, such as that if I search for something I wrote in the notes of password, that the client shows the according password. I get that the open-source model implies that everyone can contribute and fix this issue, but if I look at the repo and see 108 open PRs, I don't even bother to check if that's a feature that would be easy to add.
I agree, it's a little weird that some very basic quality of life features are missing from such a popular and relatively mature product.
Folder management in particular seems to have been an afterthought. You create a subfolder by setting its name to its full path in the hierarchy, including all its parents. And thus, in order to rename a folder you have to manually go through every single subfolder and rename the particular parent in its name.
Other annoyances off the top of my head are things like the inability to change the type of a custom field from e.g. text to hidden without deleting it and creating a new field. Or the browser extension forgetting everything you just typed into the new item form (unless you remember to pop out the window) when pasting a generated password on the site you're trying to register to.
After switching from KeepassXC to Bitwarden for its better auto-fill detection and convenient synchronization, I can't help but feel that it's also been a downgrade in more ways than expected.
KeepassXC and/or strongbox have a very similar workflow to the older file based 1password one. I switched from 1password once they went to the centralized subscription model and I have been very happy with it for years now.
I tested Bitwarden recently and found the UX really disappointing. Some basic operations are so counter intuitive that I felt completely lost. This is definitely not the application I would recommend to non tech-savvy people. 1Password has much smoother UX.
Adding on to this. I've watched Bitwarden with interest, but I won't be moving to it anytime soon. Nor can I recommend it to others in good conscience since there's a basic UX issue that makes it easy to accidentally lose generated passwords.
A recent response to this issue was that "it's a feature, not a bug". I've been waiting to see it added to their roadmap, but it's missing from the 2023 roadmap. So I guess I will have to wait another year
> There are a few basic features missing, such as that if I search for something I wrote in the notes of password, that the client shows the according password
It might be that your search term is a partial of a word. This is fine when searching some fields, but for finding entries with that word in the notes section, the search term needs wildcards. You can read more about it here: https://bitwarden.com/help/searching-vault/
But to paraphrase: "notes: Item's notes. Only full-word matches will be listed unless you use wildcards."
I just switched password managers from LastPass, and Bitwarden's lack of multiple accounts on their browser plugin was a dealbreaker for me. Such a basic feature, especially if they want to get widespread adoption. Otherwise, anyone whose work uses Bitwarden basically can't also use it for their personal stuff without jumping through hoops.
Aren’t you supposed to have your personal Bitwarden account and get work passwords shared to your account? I thought that’s how Bitwarden for organisations worked.
Ideally I'd want to keep my _personal_ personal stuff separate from my "work personal" (ie my personal logins, but the one for work accounts) separate from my shared work stuff. So I'd want two accounts, one for my truly personal accounts, and then one for my work-personal and have the work-shared connected to that.
Lastpass allows you to link your personal-personal account into your work account, so that you can access your personal-personal data while logged into a work account. Work-personal accounts should be stored in a personal folder in your work account, then work-work accounts are in shared folders that cross multiple users.
I forget if LastPass does — 1Password does (though I haven't actually used it in practice, because my work doesn't use 1Password). Idk, maybe it's not actually a problem, but it's how I like to organize things. ::shrug::
I don't know how well this works across business and personal accounts, but you can use "collections" to share passwords between accounts.
I'm using that on my VaultWarden server to share data between different accounts and it works well for me. This may not work in your specific situation if your company manages your Bitwarden account, though.
There are a few basic features missing, such as that if I search for something I wrote in the notes of password, that the client shows the according password. I get that the open-source model implies that everyone can contribute and fix this issue, but if I look at the repo and see 108 open PRs, I don't even bother to check if that's a feature that would be easy to add.