Reviews for Bitwarden Password Manager
Bitwarden Password Manager by Bitwarden Inc.
Review by Exostenza
Rated 2 out of 5
by Exostenza, 3 months agoIt's a potentially good service with seemingly all the features you'd want in a service like this but they don't always work or are all even present. I find a lot of the time it either won't suggest to unlock the extension when clicking on a login or password field and even the fill in keyboard shortcuts don't work - its been too intermittent to tell if it is only some sites or just a randomly triggered bug. Also very annoying, when I click to fill in a login and password it'll prompt Windows Hello Fingerprint randomly in the background so I have to click on it on the taskbar instead of it showing up in the foreground all the time as it obviously should. I also bought it for the premium features while the Firefox extension doesn't even have the advertised anti-phishing feature yet which is one of the reasons I paid for premium. So, they are advertising features that aren't even available which I think is dishonest which doesn't inspire trust in the company and their practices - it is strange that the supposedly most secure browser seems to be the least supported.
The above poses instant issues when considering the service for tech illiterate people as these problems are deal breakers. I want to set this up for my boomer mother who has been successfully phished several times but the fingerprint in the background bug will definitely make her think it's not there and therefore not working. Also, the non-existent anti-phishing feature advertised for the premium edition literally takes away the reason I would consider paying for a premium account for her.
These are all, however, grievances that could be easily fixed with competent non LLM vibe coding done by a real human being which could easily bump my rating up a star or two and pay for premium for my boomer mother but for now Bitwardem is mediocre at best and I can't recommend paying for premium to anyone and even the free version's bugs may pose problems depending on your tech literacy.
Bitwarden devs: you're close but you have to fix these things before I can recommend the service.
The above poses instant issues when considering the service for tech illiterate people as these problems are deal breakers. I want to set this up for my boomer mother who has been successfully phished several times but the fingerprint in the background bug will definitely make her think it's not there and therefore not working. Also, the non-existent anti-phishing feature advertised for the premium edition literally takes away the reason I would consider paying for a premium account for her.
These are all, however, grievances that could be easily fixed with competent non LLM vibe coding done by a real human being which could easily bump my rating up a star or two and pay for premium for my boomer mother but for now Bitwardem is mediocre at best and I can't recommend paying for premium to anyone and even the free version's bugs may pose problems depending on your tech literacy.
Bitwarden devs: you're close but you have to fix these things before I can recommend the service.
9,291 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12600875, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by waguri, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by The Real frostbyte, 4 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 20026881, 4 days agoUsing 2026.6.1 version and still slowing down my Chrome and Firefox browser and spikes CPU on my mac last weeks. I am so sorry, cause it was working fine for years until now.
- Rated 3 out of 5by aarch0x40, 8 days agoRecently replaced another secrets manager with Bitwarden and have been mostly pleased with the transition. Something changed recently though and the browser plugins for Firefox variants seem broken / unable to connect to the binary install for macOS. First it seemed like just biometrics but browser passwords are just completely broken now. It's something that can be worked around but also shouldn't have happened in the first place.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 20018713, 9 days agoChanging the API to break logging in is unnecessary and short-sighted. I should know, I have prescription lenses.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14604126, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rév, 10 days agoAbsolute must have. Bitwarden, in this day and age of subscription are giving this cross platform gold for free is mind blowing to me. It even supports passkeys on free account!
- Rated 1 out of 5by dill, 10 days agoI never write reviews for extensions, but a change in the extension has made my workflow impossible. I used to always click the item name to see the contents, but now it automatically autofills, which is something I do not want. I had to downgrade back to a 2025 version of the extension to make it usable for me again.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Scotty Trees, 11 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BearCat, 11 days agoЛагает из-за расширения жутко.
В ютубе плейлист длинный на 400+ видео музыки просто интерфейс умирает, через 3 секунды только реагирует аж курсор пропадает. - Rated 1 out of 5by kelevra989, 12 days agoL'add-on anche avendo l'impostazione correttamente inserita non permette l'accesso con pin. ogni volta bisogna inserire la password per intero. Non è possibile per un app del genere. Correggete per favore.
- Rated 1 out of 5by NIghtClawZ, 12 days agoWhy can't I install it on one Android phone ? The button is grey out.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tony, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rahul Das, 18 days agoThis add-on of Bitwarden is marvelous and especially the sidebar feature on FireFox work well.
- Rated 5 out of 5by johndoe, 18 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20001296, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by signora's ashes, 20 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Vybsss, 21 days agoMany crashes while using this extension in firefox, also not completely optimised.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Silent Carl, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ebayybe, 24 days agoSwitched to Bitwarden and haven't regretted it for a second. The extension works like a charm in Firefox: autofill is instant, and the interface is clean and user-friendly. A huge plus for being open-source — it really builds trust in terms of security. Highly recommended!
- Rated 5 out of 5by uudrs, a month agoBeen using BW for couple years now, best decision ever to switch from built-in browser password manager to a dedicated one.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andrea-FF19967159, a month agoI currently have BW v.2026.5.1 in Firefox, and I don’t see any slowness. Even with v.2026.5.0 and v.2026.4.0, I didn’t have any problems with sites/logins. The only noticeable bug was on the saving of autofill settings, which was fixed in v.2026.5.0.
Disclaimer: I’m a developer, and I use very powerful PCs.
If other people are still complaining, it may be one (or more!) of the following things:
- They have a slow or very low-end PC
- They have a compromised PC
- They use some particular, specific sites, e.g., Reddit (?) (I don’t use it, so I can’t tell), which may still be problematic with BW