A minor thing in the grand scheme of things, I guess. LastPass offers a menu to change the display from compact to list or grid view. There is a sidebar on the left where you can jump between different options like notes, passwords, settings, and so on. User Interfaceīoth LastPass and Bitwarden have a similar layout where a list of passwords is visible in the middle. Let’s see if Bitwarden does a better job, or LastPass is still the better alternative.
Sensing the competition catching up, LastPass has also recently made several of its features free and is trying to gain user trust again.
It is an open-source password manager that offers most features for free. I found an alternative in Bitwarden, an open-source password manager that is quickly gaining traction.īitwarden has managed to stay away from controversies and hacks, so far. It has been in the news for getting hacked, more than once, and is owned by LogMeIn. LastPass is one of the most popular password managers but it has some flaws. As such, you want it to be safe and reliable. You will be using it to store your passwords, notes, and whatnot. Luckily, as you learned in this article, the process of switching from LastPass to Bitwarden is easy and intuitive.Choosing a password manager can be a headache. People tend to stay with old but sub-optimal solutions due to the difficulty of switching to something better. Enter your LastPass master password.Ĥ – Your data will be decrypted and shown on screen in CSV format.įollow the same import steps starting from Step 5 from previous section.Ĭongratulations! You have transferred your form fills data to BitWarden. NOTE: You can only export form fill data from the LastPass browser extension.ġ – Click the LastPass icon from the browser toolbar to open the LastPass popup interface.Ģ – Navigate to More options → Advanced → Export → Form Fills.ģ – This will take you to a page that then asks you to enter your LastPass master password for verification. If you want to import form fill information into Bitwarden you can export the form fill CSV data from the LastPass browser extension.
LastPass does not include form fills with the standard export from the LastPass web vault. LastPass.CSV)ġ0 – Now open web version of the BitWardenġ1 – Go to ‘Tools’ in the top navigation menuġ2 – Select LastPass (csv) from the dropdown:ġ3 – Choose the file you created in Step 9Ĭongratulations! You have just transferred all of your data from LastPass into Bitwarden! Import your form fills into BitWarden (OPTIONAL) If this LastPass bug affects your exported data you should use a text editor (such as Notepad) to find and replace all of these values before importing into Bitwarden.įor example, you may want to do a find and replace for & → & and < → <).Ħ – Open any text editor, we will be using Notepad (You can quickly access it by pressing Win+R, typing ‘notepad’ and hit ENTER)ħ – Paste text you copied to clipboard (CTRL+V)ĩ – In the dialog make sure you have selected : The LastPass exporter may change (HTML encode) these and possibly other special characters in your passwords to their respective HTML encoded values (ex. IMPORTANT: There are known bugs (for years now) with the LastPass exporter regarding special characters such as the ampersand ( &), the greater than sign ( >), and the less than sign ( <).
This is all your data from LastPass sorted as Coma Separated Values (CSV), your next step will be to save it to a file using any text editor.įor the following instructions pretend that you are using Windows as your system, for Mac OS there are slight differences in key combinations and software.ĥ – Select all text on page (CTRL+A) and Copy it to clipboard (CTRL+C) Import your passwords to BitWarden – Text explanationĢ – Select ‘More options’ on bottom left of the pageĤ – For security reasons you will be asked to re-enter your password, once this done you will see a picture like this: