Reviews for Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden Password Manager by Bitwarden Inc.
195 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18767257, a year agoDecent on desktop, basically broken on android. I wanted to try out a more secure way of storing my passwords, but Bitwarden is inconvenient to use.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Malmby, a year agoLoved Bitwarden since August 2016 and have been a subscriber and evangelist, but the new UI is atrociously bad. Too much empty space, giant text, enormous icons, and completely changed all workflows. The "Compact Mode" is still horrifically large. Waiting to see if they can salvage anything over the next few months, but I will be canceling my subscription and switching to Proton Pass if the Bitwarden UI remains anything at all like this redesign, as it is frustratingly inefficient.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Stephen, a year agoThe new redesign makes this tool immensely frustrating to use. Swapping the fill and edit functions over makes no sense at all.
In response to the developer response below: how does adding the quick copy buttons back in fix the issue that I describe above?Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by Coldblackice, a year agoNew UI is awful! Autofill is broken, and the function to easily "Autofill this website" function that auto-populates the URL input is no longer there. Reverting ASAP to the old version.
- Rated 2 out of 5by MB, a year agoIt was phenomenal until the latest "redesign" or whatever they call it. Now it's extremely frustrating and difficult to use. The secure notes are all but unusable now, better remember what you called them!
I really hate this new theme. - Rated 2 out of 5by budget princess, a year agoLoved it until the new UI replaced the "click to fill" functionality with a tiny postage stamp "fill" button. Reverted to the last version with a usable UI until they fix this bug.
- Rated 2 out of 5by FireFueled, a year agoLast update made UI worse. Now I have to click a small button to perform a function that was triggered by a big broad button.
Dumb decisions requested by dumb financiers, made by dumb designers, and approved by dumb managers.Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by Anonymous User, a year agoWhile I consider Bitwarden one of the best password managers available, latest update (the one introducing new UI) - deserves negative review. Not because the extension is broken or new UI is ugly (it looks really nice), but because you've changed behavior of extension. Providing users with additional settings to go back to previous behavior (or promise to introduce such settings in future updates) is not the way how you should do it. Some users (like relatives and loved ones who were introduced to password managers by more tech-aware people) of extension got confused/lost by your changes - and it's difficult to explain over the phone what should they change to keep using Bitwarden "as usual". That's why new extension behavior should be opt-in for existing Bitwarden users.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jon-Pierre Gentil, a year agoThe new UI is unfathomably bad.
It feels like the people who designed it do not actually use the product. I think a big assumption would be made that the drop-down menu isn't used much and that everyone uses the auto-fill widget embedded in the website itself. The problem is that rarely works, and I have it disabled. I don't want it. So they've changed the default behavior in the drop-down menu to "view" the item instead of "fill", and created this TINY MINISCULE "fill" button you have to click instead, with no option to revert to the previous behavior.
Fire your UX people; they're inept.
The rest of Bitwarden is a great product. But this UI change is a dumpsterfire. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15698278, a year agoExcellent app I've been using for years but the recent UI update made every button very bulky which makes it so less information is visible on the screen. The update also changed the main page in the app so the things that were accessible straight away are no longer there. Wish that change got reverted.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17579105, a year agoit's always been great, but the latest UI refresh I consider a huge step backwards. there are now additional steps needed to fill password fields and copy passwords. broken workflow
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by Pheurum, a year agoHow is it possible that someone thought the new design was a good idea? Completely ridiculous redesign! There was no need at all
- Rated 2 out of 5by dguy73137, a year agoThe old version was better. Too many clicks to achieve what was already fine.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17242476, a year agoLoved this extension... until 2024.12.3
We don't want change, unless it makes things faster, smoother, safer, better. Adding extra steps (WTF... "fill" button?!) just slows down the process. Loved the product (mostly) before, but this is a huge mistake. UI changes that break UX need to at least have a toggle. Let's sort it out, folks. Then you get your stars back.Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18750356, a year agoBeen using and paying for Bitwarden for a few years now.... not for much longer!
This last update has clearly not been very well tested. Now get some strange random effects in the extension using it on linux and the font is too small and cannot be changed. - Rated 2 out of 5by sedoy, a year agomore cheesy UI is even hard to imagine, why was it necessary to spoil what worked well....
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jonathan Kamens, a year agoI legit don't know what the folks at Bitwarden were thinking with the recent revamp of the user interface. It is objectively worse in many respects. Operations now require more clicks, more screen real-estate is taken up by things that are used less often, and the decision to change the default behavior for a context-selected auto-fill entry from fill to edit, and move the fill function to a tiny button, is an incredibly hair-brained regression.
For Pete's sake, you could have made it look prettier without crippling the functionality. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16999870, a year agoThe new extension seems to follow a trend set by Microsoft. If a task can be accomplished with one mouse click, two mouse clicks must be better. In the older extension, I could copy a password with a single click. Now, I have to select the info button, then pick password from a dropdown. This is not an improvement, in my opinion.
In the older version, selecting the entry would autofill. Now, I have to find the small button to autofill. Clicking on the entry opens the listing.
Some of this can be attributed to having to learn the new interface. Some of it can be attributed to prettifying it at the expense of usefulness.
I'll be looking at downgrading to an older version.Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by rmccomiskie, a year agoThe latest release is absolutely confusing. Why was it necessary to change the UI such that I have to make more clicks to accomplish the same function. And displaying all logins on the main screen is impossible to use with hundreds of logins in my vault. I am not happy with this 'upgrade'.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer. - Rated 2 out of 5by Noknok, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by AB, a year agoUI redesign looks bad (curves, whitespace), Fill button is miniscule (no more card click to fill), detection now broken on some sites, don't need Send button, some useful settings taken away, don't need animations. It's clear the dev team is just adding crap to stay busy. BW's GitHub backlog is pretty intense; they should be resolving GitHub issues and internal bugs instead of making the interface uglier and then needing to bugfix the uglier interface.
Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi. Mare sure you are on version 2024.12.4 or above, then check under Bitwarden Settings > Autofill > "Click items to autofill on Vault view" and Bitwarden Settings > Appearance > "Show quick copy actions on Vault" if you want to restore previous functionality that you may prefer.