8 mo. ago • 97%

Bitwarden's app is about to get a lot prettier

www.androidpolice.com Bitwarden's app is about to get a lot prettier

Bitwarden’s next update will focus on eye candy and a native codebase

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good, but please don't make it slower

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- Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it's more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now
  
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  til it's on xamarin, i assumed it was slow to load due to the thousands of rounds of decryption
  
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- It will be faster, because they are moving off Xamarin. Big win in all regards.
  
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I'm happy with the current one, but sure.

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- It's a bullshit headline. The real benefit is quicker access to new, native features in the OS. So, for that reason, I'm happy they're making the move. But making it about how a utility product looks just seems... unimportant to me.
  
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
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- Seriously, I'm getting tired of hearing people throw around words like dated and modern to describe what are just a different styles of app UI.
  
  There's nothing wrong with how it looks now. As long as the new look doesn't hide actual features and options while wasting screen space, I'll be fine with it, but there was nothing wrong with how it is now.
  
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  Sometimes it's justified. If an app looks like it was designed for Windows 3.1, Android C, or god forbid Motif, it just screams "hasn't been maintained in decades", and it looks terrible.
  
  But yeah, I don't have any aesthetic complaints with Bitwarden. It's neither pretty nor ugly, just functional.
  
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- One reason I tried going to proton pass is ui (looks nice imo) and ux (it auto completes inside apps and keyboard like google)
  
  But (just a feeling) bitwarden feels safer and more grounded since it has been around for a while
  
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  UI is basically considered UX. Bitwarden's app looks dated af and I have had strong doubts about committing to BW due to only that. It gives the impression that it is abandoned. Looks bad, basically. Not pretty. These things matter. It stands out among all my other modern looking apps, in a bad way.
  
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A native app, nice

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I switched to Bitwarden after 1Password moved to electron and booted selfhosters off the app and into their sub model. Jesus Christ is the current Bitwarden UI bad. It’s easily the worst looking application on my phone that isn’t a banking app; I’ve had zero issues with the functionality though.

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- Yeah, so in typical modern day fashion get ready to lose functionality.
  
  They often trade UX for "pretty" these days and I find most apps and websites horrible to use in comparison to 10+ years ago. Like everything has to be in a context menu for some reason now.
  
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Material tends to be ugly as balls but if usability improves, that's great.

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- I tend to think the modern material doesn't provide nearly as much opportunity to be colorful and provide a unique visual identity as the OG material did.
  
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  Apps like Inbox were works art with the use ux to match
  
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  It's also flattening everything which to me was one of the more fun parts of the design with elevation and shadows inspired by layers of paper.
  
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Glad to hear. It needs it. But it needs more than that. The functionality is quite basic.

I use 1Password now that it's on Linux and it's fantastic. Way, way more categories to choose from and beautiful design as well as fast sync make it a pleasure to use. I wouldn't use anything else

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- I use 1password and was considering switching to bitwarden or derivative. Perhaps to selfhost. What's beneficial about categorising logins? I wish 1password had a duplicate finder.
  
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  Having categories masks everything tidier and easier to find. If I'm looking for a Software licence key I saved, I search that category or Kik in there instead of looking through the entire database.
  
  I don't like the Bitwarden model of dumping it all together and then having to search everything.
  
  I'm old fashioned.
  
  I don't think 1Password can be self hosted.
  
  Do you mean find duplicate passwords or duplicate items? Doing a search will bring up all items so you will see duplicate entries and can delete them.
  
  If I'm not mistaken there is the Watchtower functionality which shows you reused passwords - websites where you've used the same password each time (duplicates) and then you can use 1Password to generate new ones.
  
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Nice to see they are moving to native platforms. With this news they took away my only reason for switching to the shiny proton pass.

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- Now time to delete our passwords from proton... Oh wait where's the button...
  
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  Wait, you can't?
  
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Mine used to look pretty OK but then one day it moved everything into a folder named ironically No Folder and because I kinda need the passwords pretty badly I don't want to try and risk fixing it.

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- You can always download a copy for backup.
  
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Good news!

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Just need passkey support on mobile and we're all set.

(I don't know if the article mentions that, my adblocker prevents me from reading it)

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- They said they are working on it
  
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Hopefully the UX improves. Last time I tried Bitwarden it was so much worse than 1 Password.

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