mobile VS desktop

Compare mobile vs desktop and see what are their differences.

desktop

The desktop vault (Windows, macOS, & Linux). (by bitwarden)
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mobile desktop
5 69
5,663 3,677
0.7% -
6.2 9.6
20 days ago almost 2 years ago
Go TypeScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

mobile

Posts with mentions or reviews of mobile. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.
  • Is it possible to create a Mobile app in golang??
    4 projects | /r/golang | 4 Jan 2023
    Currently I am learning golang. And I just thought why not create an Android app in GoLang... And luckly I stumbled upon this GitHub repo: https://github.com/golang/mobile - checked the docs but was not able to comprehend the terms: native, SDK apps, stuff...
  • Why you should use a Go backend in Flutter
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022
    If you use C#, Java, or Node.js for developing your backend, you may have to rewrite the same existing business logic in Dart on the Flutter frontend. The Go mobile project offers a way to call Go code from the platform-specific mobile development environments, i.e., Java and Android.
  • Making an Android app based in C?
    3 projects | /r/androiddev | 5 Sep 2021
    NDK is a fairly cursed thing dude, depending on your background I can suggest either looking at how golang interop is implemented (here or here), or going for flutter/dart ffi.
  • Uploading an image to IPFS from an Android phone?
    5 projects | /r/ipfs | 29 Mar 2021
    The other way is waaaay more complex, run a IPFS node directly on the android phone with their go-ipfs lib and making use of go mobile lib. Check this one https://github.com/cusspvz/react-native-ipfs
  • Going Places: How I used Golang for literally every part of an IoT system
    6 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2021
    This part is one that I struggled the most with as the gomobile package is unstable and also lacks documentation and guides (as we all could have guessed that it's rarely used in a practical sense).

desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-20.
  • PSA: You should change your password manager's clipboard settings now (Bitwarden among them)
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 20 Jan 2023
    There have been requests. So far there hasn’t been an easy way to implement it, unfortunately: https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/90
  • How do I verify the authenticity of the Bitwarden download?
    1 project | /r/Bitwarden | 16 Sep 2022
  • My bug report got purged in a clearance, do how do I confirm it as still being an issue?
    3 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 29 Aug 2022
    If you activate the 'minimize when copying to clipboard' option in preferences, but need to copy something that is set to require master password confirmation, Bitwarden just minimises without copying the password. I made a ticket for that in GitHub in august '21, but that was closed after a 'reorganization' in April. My head was not in the space to check for this problem then, but I checked it now and the problem persists with version 2022.8.1. Of cause I appreciate help with the actual problem, but how do I best let Bitwarden know that this problem persists?
  • Bitwarden Uninstall Itself at Update
    1 project | /r/Bitwarden | 2 Jun 2022
    I ended up installing previous version https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/releases/tag/v1.33.0
  • Vote for the Bitwarden flatpak app to become official
    3 projects | /r/Fedora | 25 Apr 2022
    $ rpm -qp —scripts https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/releases/download/v1.33.0/Bitwarden-1.33.0-x86_64.rpm postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): #!/bin/bash # Link to the binary ln -sf ‘/opt/Bitwarden/bitwarden’ ‘/usr/bin/bitwarden’ # SUID chrome-sandbox for Electron 5+ chmod 4755 ‘/opt/Bitwarden/chrome-sandbox’ || true update-mime-database /usr/share/mime || true update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications || true postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): #!/bin/bash # Delete the link to the binary rm -f '/usr/bin/bitwarden'
    1 project | /r/Bitwarden | 25 Apr 2022
    In 2019, an issue was opened in GitHub suggesting for the dev team to manage the flatpak application. Currently, the flatpak that is present in Flathub isn't official and this is a security risk, because that's about passwords.
  • Bitwarden 1.32.1 keeps asking to be updated and not updating on pc
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 26 Mar 2022
    Thanks for the feedback everyone, you can follow the latest updates for this issue on Github.
  • Need An Ealier Version Of Bitwarden
    2 projects | /r/Bitwarden | 23 Mar 2022
    Thanks, these were the answers I was looking for too. Being a newb, which of these file links do I need to re-install on an old MacOS 10.11? https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/releases/tag/v1.31.3
  • [LTT on Steam Deck] Windows isn’t always better……
    1 project | /r/linux_gaming | 13 Mar 2022
    During all this, libsecret was updated which broke Webex (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/webex-bin#comment-855518). Couldn't find a good way to downgrade a package so I ended up installing some fork of libsecret which got Webex working again. Also, there was an electron update which I think has caused Bitwarden to spew Javascript errors. Someone made a Github issue about the error and although I don't think he quite understands what he's doing, that looks like the same error I was getting - https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/1338.
  • Premium not showing in my desktop app
    1 project | /r/Bitwarden | 10 Feb 2022
    Following an upgrade to version 1.31.0 of the Bitwarden desktop client, I noticed that I could no longer view OTP keys. I then discovered that my Premium status is no longer reflected in the desktop client, but I am indeed classified as a Premium member on the Bitwarden website. This appears to be a bug in version 1.31.0 and has been reported to the Github bug tracker: https://github.com/bitwarden/desktop/issues/1309

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mobile and desktop you can also consider the following projects:

TinyGo - Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.

bitwarden - Bitwarden client applications (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli) [Moved to: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients]

Shizuku - Using system APIs directly with adb/root privileges from normal apps through a Java process started with app_process.

rbw - unofficial bitwarden cli

VeraCrypt - Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCrypt

notion-app - Notion for Linux

keepassxc - KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

bitwarden_rs - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs [Moved to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden]

PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.

forge - :electron: A complete tool for building and publishing Electron applications

desktop - Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.

notion-linux - Native Notion packages for Linux