The desktop app looks and feels like an electron app, so I'm far less impressed by it. At the very least it would be nice to have it in Qt or something like that.
That is because it IS an Electron app.
> At the very least it would be nice to have it in Qt or something like that.
Sure, I hope so too. Unfortunately there are very few serious alternative password managers that are not using Electron for the desktop app these days. Seems like 1Password is on the way out too.
I will freely admit I am strongly biased against Xamarin as there are so few cases where I think it's unequivocally the right choice, and Bitwarden isn't one of them. It would make more sense to take the work done in their desktop electron app and use that as part of an Ionic hybrid mobile app than to screw around with the layercake of bugs and mismatched APIs that Xamarin is. Moreover, since this is a serious app from a security point of view it really should go full vendor native IMO.
Whatever you think of Xamarin, there is a special place in hell for all the buggy JS based mobile software. Its not an improvement, just a different flavour of crap.
> Moreover, since this is a serious app from a security point of view it really should go full vendor native IMO.
hmm
On iOS I pretty much stick with Castamatic and Overcast, both are full native iOS apps but neither are open source. I'm sure there's something listed at http://www.NewPodcastApps.com which is iOS and full Xcode native.
UPDATE: 21 Open source apps written in Swift (including one I use every day: Firefox for iOS): https://medium.mybridge.co/21-amazing-open-source-ios-apps-w...
[1] popular OpenStreetMap client, https://github.com/osmandapp/
[2] popular messaging app among privacy advocates, https://github.com/signalapp
Do you want to share what makes you think Bitwarden is superior to other selfhosted, open-source solutions (e. g. Passbolt, Passwork, Psono)?
Feature wise (ignoring the mobile apps), some of those seem to have some comparable features like emergency access, sharing, folders, etc, but locked behind a pricing structure that makes them less useful.
So from a look at those other ones, Bitwarden is the superior product for non business/security conscious family use at least. And for business use I don't see how those other ones are better anyway.
> Bitwarden has an Android app (two of those didn't)
That's just wrong. All three of the alternatives I mentioned have an Android app. I haven't used any of them, though.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.psono.pson...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.passwork.p...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.passbolt.m...
> has been security audited (I didn't see anything for those other ones)
A quick search turns up at least some auditing activity:
Passbolt: https://www.passbolt.com/incidents
Psono: https://doc.psono.com/admin/asvs/overview.html (self-audit)
Looking more closely at Passwork, they claim to have open/auditable source code, but I can't find any public code. So they are out of the game anyway.
> Bitwarden has a much better pricing structure around non business users. It has a free tier and plans for families/non business users, as well as business use. Those others had nothing comparable that I could see except for a limited free tier.
Psono's full-featured enterprise version is free for anyone with up to 10 users. I don't see any such generous offer at Bitwarden or elsewhere.
And both, Psono and Passbolt offer unlimited business tiers for only 3€ per user per month which seems to be in the range of what Bitwarden costs. I don't really see your argument for the pricing.
For example, what happens if I get hit by a bus? Oh, they've already thought of that: https://bitwarden.com/help/article/emergency-access/
The peculiar problems faced by families, work organisations, 2fa - they've put some time into thing about every sub-problem I've come up with.
Well, just about everything. I'd love if they would let me run my own read only backup servers - ie, a server that mirrors my data stored on theirs, that my device will connect to if theirs isn't up, and that supports a read only version of the web interface.