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Proton Pass open source password manager is now available on F-Droid (proton.me)
submitted 6 months ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does it compare to vaultwarden/bitwarden?

[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

When it launched the apps were more modern than bitwarden. If bitwarden hasn't improved since, then it's still the same

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Bitwarden’s interface hasn’t changed a bit and it’s a pity

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Whats wrong with it?

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bitwarden is excellent but i have a few nitpicks on Android.

I wish I could change the "Username" field to "Email address" because it kind of annoys me having email addresses under usernames. I'd also like to add things to favourites or folders without having to go into edit mode on every entry individually. Same with adding notes. The app has trouble following the system theme and doesn't always autofill reliably for me, meaning I sometimes have to go into the app and copy/paste my passwords manually.

Other than that, the UI is just a bit ugly compared to some other password managers,

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Try Keyguard, it is open source and much nicer than the regular Bitwarden app. Do not use the version from the Play Store though, get it directly from Github.

[–] starman@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not open source. Only source available unfortunately.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 1 points 6 months ago

I did not realize that. That explains why it's not on F-Droid. Really unfortunate but at least it can still be publicly audited.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Huh, this is the first time I heard about this, thanks for sharing!

Do not use the version from the Play Store though, get it directly from Github.

Why? I use Vaultwarden with Bitwarden from the Playstore is there anything wrong with it?

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The version on the Play Store requires a "premium" subscription for some features but the Github release gets those for free.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Ah, I see, thanks for the heads up.

[–] starman@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There is no guarantee that play store build contains the same code as GitHub repository. Ideally you'd need to compile apps yourself.

But most of the time stuff like vaultwarden is trustworthy enough.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you, I will have a look at this!

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Weren't they planning to change it from Microsoft's Android UI, it's just taking a while, as they have to rebuilt it from scratch? I thought I saw something about that.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There is nothing wrong with it. Why people always want things to be changing? What really important feature are you missing?

[–] VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And what better person to answer that question than Mr. Bitwarden himself:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1b32bbz/going_native_the_future_of_the_bitwarden_mobile/

[–] hackitfast@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Looks like everything is essentially in the same spot UI wise, but with a native application that hopefully gets moving a lot faster.

I've noticed that currently on Bitwarden, for auto fill it takes 6-7 seconds just to get authenticated with fingerprint and fill in the username and password field. That should hopefully be down to like 2 or 3 seconds.

[–] xionzui@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

A few for me:

  • Automatically updating entries with app or URL information if they didn’t match and you had to manually search for them. You have to copy the URL, leave the browser, open the app, search for the entry again, and manually add the URL in the current version.
  • Better defaults in the app like which group you log in to or which collection new entries are added to. Keeping all your entries added to a shared collection is a constant chore right now.
  • Better keyboard functionality. It’s basically impossible to navigate with a keyboard on PC right now. Keepass has a global auto type hotkey which made it so you hardly even had to open the app.
[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

a new client is on the way btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVQOESKbbA

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if there's a new interface coming for android as well?

Thanks for sharing, thats exciting!

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The new client will use Material You.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Thats dope! I'll be looking forward to it, thanks for sharing your knowledge of what's going on ☺️

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's about to get Material You

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

What do you feel it's missing? It's a tad slower than I'd like but otherwise works quite well.

[–] FoD@startrek.website 2 points 6 months ago

I don't think protonpass has auto fill even on browser extension.

Or maybe I'm too stupid to figure it out. I ran side by side against bitwarden which I love. Could not figure out a way that didn't make me manually c/p the creds.