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You can self-host this unofficial version https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs if you prefer. maybe not worth $10/month of your time amortized to set up, but it has been fire-and-forget for me.
My kids have started accumulating more passwords than they can memorize (and their memorized passwords were terrible), so I wanted a family password manager. I considered using "1password for familes" which I have access to for free from my day job, but if/when I leave the company then I'll have to go back to paying for it. So far I greatly prefer the experience of bitwarden over 1password. I use the web vault, the native mac app, and the linux command line app (through a janky homegrown dmenu/xclip shell script), and I have no complaints at all.
There's an open PR for 1. though it's ignored by the maintainers unfortunately https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/pull/987/files
One can only hope (and fear) they utilize the secure enclave for this task.
Hope because it would allow me to utilize my mac as a Yubikey. I have no idea how they would synchronize it to all Apple devices, but i'm fairly certain they will find a way.
Fear because it will pretty much guarantee i cannot use my password manager on other platforms.
I already use Secretive (https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive) to store SSH keys in the secure enclave with touch id integration, and it works really well. I also keep a couple of Yubikeys as backup :)
Besides what others have mentioned, there is one feature i really miss from not just bitwarden but almost every other password manager. I basically just want a password manager that can store my secrets (2FA tokens included!) in an encrypted format, integrates with filling passwords on desktops and handheld devices, _AND is able to (two way) synchronize this encrypted storage as a simple file to whatever storage i prefer.
That might be iCloud, OneDrive, WebDAV, S3, or simply just a SMB server on my local network. My main negative point about Bitwarden is that it either requires me to store passwords in a cloud on a subscription service, or it requires me to selfhost something.
Selfhosting is (probably) fine if we're talking a Plex server or something that isn't mission critical, but hosting a bitwarden server suddenly requires me to be a sysadm in my spare time, something i'd rather keep to my daytime job (and nights when operations calls, and weekends when things needs upgrading).
The only password manager i've found that ticks most boxes is password-store (https://www.passwordstore.org/), but it lacks in browser integration, and by default leaks web addresses for the stored secrets. Other than that it works well. It's self contained, and uses git for synchronization, meaning i can be "on the go", add a password, and synchronize it to a local git service on my LAN when i get back home, or in case i need it on another platform _now_, i can connect through VPN and synchronize.