Pretty much seen it coming when the new CEO came in and removed the words "Transparency" and "Always Free" from the official marketing.
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If you are on Lemmy, theres very high probability that you also have the technical abilities required to self host Vaultwarden and stop relying on a greedy company for your most critical aspect.
I have Vaultwarden, it works with the web app and browser extensions. But is there a vaultwarden specific android app? I know technically I can use the Bitwarden app. But sometimes they update the Bitwarden app too fast for all the changes to translate into Vaultwarden and then im kinda forced to use the web app.
The web app is just a minor inconvenience to me so I continue to use it. Just wondering if there is an easier Vaultwarden specific solution for android.
Then we will shit ... the enshitification exodus goes on
Fantastic. I'm tired of having to change password managers. DashLane, Keepass, LastPass, etc., they all end up shooting their own foot somehow.
What happened to keepass?
Because i havent seen it on this thread theres also passbolt
i havent used it personaly (yet) because its offline mode is still in beta.
It's a business
When Bitwarden got a meh "refresh" of the user interface and started vibe coding stuff (I'm not some super hard-line anti-AI person, but dammit, you absolutely should not vibe code security-critical apps), I switched to KeePassX. It was like coming back home! I used to use KeePass and KeePass 2, switched to Bitwarden for a long while, and while it was neat, KeePassX is just neater. (Doesn't have cloud sync, but syncing the vault files with LocalSend is easy enough.)
I guess you mean KeepassXC, because the last release of KeepassX apparently was in 2016.
KeepassXC is also using AI, they even made a blog post about it a year ago.
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/
Honestly their description of use and why that use it is not concerning. I'm more concerned with their choice being copilot lol.
Yup, I was supposed to say KeepassXC. (...I mean I probably considered using KeepassX at some point, it's XC's predecessor after all. But as I recall Keepass 2 worked well enough on Mono, so I didn't need to switch.)
Also, whoopsies on XC's AI use. At least they don't seem to embrace it as much as Bitwarden, but still makes me go hmm.
I really don’t want to have to switch password managers again.
Don't even know where i'd switch.
Proton -> I already use Proton suite and I like the seperation, the 2 password option doesn't work for me either. I just need a seperate password.
Keepass -> I use quite a few devices and the sync just seems like a nightmare...
Any other options? For now i'll stick as BW is still great but will start exploring others.
Keepass X Syncthing
syncthing runs on everything and is easy to configure.
Maybe it's changed in the year since I tried but I absolutely could not get syncthings to work on android
That’s not an option for iOS users.
You could use Synctrain or maybe Möbius Sync to SyncThing-sync a folder with your phone, then use Strongbox or KeePassium or any other KeePass-compatible app to work with the file?
This, or Vaultwarden, but a lot of people swear by Keepass.
I use UNIX pass utility, it's very minimal and works for me
Just rip the bandaid off.
And go to what? What works as well / seamlessly as Bitwarden?
Keepass.
That's quite the disappointment. Probably need to prepare to switch away from bitwarden or at least research options for open source clients for my vaultwarden backend.
Someone can correct me, but this change seems to be targeting people who are repackaging bitwarden and selling it. It does feel like we are trending the wrong direction though.
If you read their announcement carefully you'll find things like
All current features are available in both versions
Which strongly implies that the different versions will start to diverge over time. Then at one point they will just be like maah it's not worth putting more work into the open source thing, we'll focus on building new cool features yada yada yada. And this is how all the open to partly open to closed source rug pulls worked in the last years.
(If you want to do this the worst way possible like MinIO you also squash / delete the Git history the moment you announce you're only working on closed source)
Minio also deleted the repos altogether about two weeks ago.
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I think all of us can just using Vaultwarden, it seems to fix all the problems that are there even in the old free version of Bitwarden.
The issue is, the bitwarden app you still use is what is affected by this change.
Sigh... I hope this isn't the first move of enshitifying bitwarden. I read the comments/replies and hope this is benign but I'm now nervous
The first move was when they hired a CEO who comes from private equity. This is the second move.
I think it is the next move (not the first) in enshittifying bitwarden. I think the first move was the leadership change announced in May.
App store EULAs and GPLv3 frequently clash. This change only affects the app store binary releases.
So, 99% of users. Do you use an iOS phone or the browser extensions? You're affected.
So, 99% of users.
How? It's not like the source code if no longer under GPL, it's just that this specific compiled binary is under a different license but it doesn't change anything for anyone in real life.
How do you install the GPL version on iOS or chrome?
I have a proton membership anyways so proton pass seems good since they have SimpleLogin
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