Bitwarden

An open-source password manager with optional self-hosting.

Bitwarden provides a hosted password manager with native apps for every major platform (Windows, macOS, Linux desktop, iOS, Android, browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Tor) and a CLI. The server is open source, and self-hosting is a first-class option for organisations that prefer to keep credentials in their own infrastructure.

Vaultwarden is a popular community Rust reimplementation of the Bitwarden server, suited to smaller deployments where running the full Bitwarden server stack would be heavyweight. It speaks the same client protocol, so the official Bitwarden clients work against Vaultwarden unchanged.

Kyle Spearrin founded Bitwarden in 2016. The hosted Bitwarden service has free, premium, and team/enterprise tiers, while the open-source server itself is GPL-3.0. Bitwarden has become the default recommendation among open-source-friendly users for password management — alongside KeePassXC for users who prefer a fully local solution.

License: GPL-3.0-only (server)

Category: Security

Website: https://bitwarden.com/

Install

Desktop:
  Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install bitwarden
  Snap:          snap install bitwarden
  Flatpak:       flatpak install flathub com.bitwarden.desktop
  macOS:         brew install --cask bitwarden
Self-host server: docker run -p 80:80 vaultwarden/server:latest

Authors

Bitwarden Inc. and contributors

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