If you're mooching the free tier of something with a Pricing tab on the website, you're always on borrowed time. It's worth finding a slightly less polished non-commercial FOSS program you're happy with for simple applications (notes, password managers, TOTP, etc.) so you don't have to worry about the impending VC heel turn.
FWIW, Bitwarden itself has been a less polished set of applications for a long time (Electron on desktop and MAUI on iOS, with the latter only changing recently to native). One advantage with Bitwarden was (and currently still is) that the yearly pricing starts low enough ($10 a year for premium). But this will likely not be around for much longer.
I knew I was on borrowed time when Bitwarden got the VC funding. I’ve also been using KeePassXC (on desktop), Proton Pass and the built-in password manager on iOS. So far, Proton Pass also seems to be slow on its development pace, just like Bitwarden. I’m looking at KeePass apps on iOS, but haven’t decided on them (the contenders seem to be MiniKeePass, KeePassium and Strongbox). I won’t miss Bitwarden though.
Yeah, the hard part with Bitwarden is the maintenance of their client apps (which are quite good). Running the server is easy but dealing with Chrome Web Store bullshit, App Store bullshit, Google Play bullshit, Mac Store bullshit is a full time endeavor itself.
Too bad we can’t pay a little for decent for software. I’ve been considering moving to the new Passwords app that Apple has shipped to all my devices… is it any good?
I think Bitwarden is the best thing that happened in the space.
I like the UX a lot more tha keepass, it has been better at handling mfa across multiple devices than lastpass, i can self host or not, the pricing has been super reasonable.
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I knew I was on borrowed time when Bitwarden got the VC funding. I’ve also been using KeePassXC (on desktop), Proton Pass and the built-in password manager on iOS. So far, Proton Pass also seems to be slow on its development pace, just like Bitwarden. I’m looking at KeePass apps on iOS, but haven’t decided on them (the contenders seem to be MiniKeePass, KeePassium and Strongbox). I won’t miss Bitwarden though.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893994
So it's not time then
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I like the UX a lot more tha keepass, it has been better at handling mfa across multiple devices than lastpass, i can self host or not, the pricing has been super reasonable.
It does the job perfectly in my opinion.