Hello everyone, what is your go-to password manager? What would you suggest for friends and family that aren’t very tech savvy?
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Bitwarden. Second place isn’t even close.
ProtonPass is probably the least untrustworthy normie solution in 2025…
Less untrustworthy than Bitwarden? I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but could you justify that?
I wouldn’t consider bitwarden normie since it’s a freemium self-hostable open source thing, not a single company’s service you just sign up for and then it has apps and extensions with no possible confusion if you google something about it.
Hello everyone, what is your go-to password manager?
KeePassXC for something hosted locally on your home network. Best aspect of KeePassXC is the support for OTP codes built-in, in my opinion. For mobile OTP codes, I personally use Aegis.
What would you suggest for friends and family that aren’t very tech savvy?
Bitwarden for non-tech-savvy family and friends.
You could actually host your KeePass DB online, if you secured it good enough (and on a server you control). That way you’d have a solution working for every device you have, wherever you are.
I’m using Syncthing for sharing it, so as long as one other device is online it shares the newest version of the database.
I would recommend if you do this to have a two part key. Password and file. Then you can have the file on specific devices but share the database through the cloud.
Keepass. I need to figure out a way to securely sync between Android <-> PC.
GNUpass should be very secure too but I need a way to view it on Android.
securely sync between Android <-> PC
Syncthing does the job pretty great for me. Local sync, rather than cloud. As long as your network is secure, you’re good
bitwarden imo however, explore other options here
BitWarden. All day everyday. Every human
I recently moved my family from 1Password to Bitwarden. They’re not tech savvy at all and haven’t really noticed a difference aside from that “the password vault looks different”.
Again, they’re not tech savvy so they don’t really use any specific 1Password features. They’re also not constantly adding or removing logins, so Bitwarden has been pretty easy for them.
When is recently? Would be good to know how Long they used it
When is recently?
I checked my email just to be sure. So looks like I migrated my family in August 2024. Ah. Actually, further back than I thought.
So my mom, dad, wife, and me have been using Bitwarden for a little over a year without any issues.
My wife is a macOS user (for now…) and she’s totally fine with Bitwarden. She doesn’t care about password managers. It’s just some random app that saves passwords to her. She probably wouldn’t remember if she’s using 1Password or Bitwarden. My wife occasionally will add logins to Bitwarden.
My parents were macOS users—now they’re on Fedora Silverblue for 2 months!—but they’re even less technical than my wife. They don’t know what OS they’re running or what a password manager app is. They just know
wolf icon = internet,shield icon = passwords. They don’t add or remove passwords. I added their 5 website logins and that’s all they need.
Authpass. Store offline or in their cloud. Works on multiple types of devices. Has autofill
If you use nextcloud, especially for your friends and family, the passwords app is really good there. Plenty of apps and plugins available to use it everywhere.
Bitwarden if you share accounts between two devices, keepass if just one.
Not just between devices. Between people, too. Super handy to coordinate shared passwords. I use it with my wife for utilities and stuff.
You can also designate other Bitwarden accounts to have the ability to reset your master password, in case of emergency. So my wife has a password she can use to get in there, in case something happens to me. But people can’t do it on the sly, because it’ll notify the account holder of its use.
Keepass and Bitwarden respectively. Keepass has a lot of fringe advantages but most important to me is automation and offline consistency. Bitwarden will let you stay logged in offline depending on the options but it’s a bit different and they offer some kind of premium service. They both have good Android apps and Firefox addons
Bitwarden. There are also self host options, and other free/freemium offerings as well. Personally, I feel like Bitwarden built all this infrastructure to keep my passwords encrypted and secure, and since my db contains not only personal data, but also business data, I’ll leave it to Bitwarden who has a fantastic record as far as breaches.
Bitwarden
Bitwarden is great!
Bitwarden with self-hosted Vaultwarden.
Bitwarden with self-hosted Vaultwarden is great!
you don’t have to be very tech savy to use a password manager. I use a keypass variant for local ones and keep important ones there and bitwarden online with stuff that if it got taken over would not matter.
Keepass or bust
