Bitwarden can 1-click import 1Password vaults.

I have done this, and it was horrible… for example I was missing all attachments (no notification or error messages). Also the fields are not properly converted 1:1. All in all, it was a big mess. This was about a year ago.

Funny story: I migrated from lastpass to bitwarden a couple years back. I expected a big mess. Instead, the import was better than perfect: a bunch of accounts that wouldn't autofill in lastpass magically started to autofill after being imported into bitwarden.

I think it might be the only "better than perfect" import story I've ever experienced, and I can't rightly expect it to happen again, but it happened once and that's something.

This is the exact experience I had. I was moving from Lastpass after they sold out. I used the migration as a point in time to clean up my vault and have enjoyed a completely clean password manager ever since. Bitwarden has slowly been adding the features I wanted when I had left Lastpass - and at this point it just works for my workflow.

While I understand subscriptions can add value, I don't understand the forced model. Clearly 1Password has a subset of customers that don't want what they're forcing on customers. Maybe it's that they're positioning to sell the company and moving to 100% subscription boosts the bottom line valuation. But in the majority of cases the customer is not always delighted by this move. Sales organizations love to claim "it's what the customer wants", "it's more affordable", among other half-truths - when the reality is it's a much more consistent revenue stream that disconnects customers voting with dollars from continual enhancement of the product such that the customer is incented to upgrade.

I was a lass pass user forever then dashlane user for about a year. I ditched them all for bitwarden and think it's easily the best I've tried.

I use Bitwarden at home. Two of my last three jobs used 1PW. I wish I had a ten'er for everytime I swore at 1PW and professed my love for Bw.

I previously used LastPass but heard about Bw on HN. Saw it had Yubikey support for just $10 per year. Tried Bw. Have never regretted that decision.

Bitwarden's model is consumer friendly. I really appreciate being able to self-host a fully functional vault, even if I don't exercise that option. I feel confident that they won't hold my data hostage. $10/year is a great deal. +1 for bitwarden.

As far as attachments, that's a 1Password problem. Their export handles attachments horribly. At least it did a year ago.

You... just saved me many hours. My 2021 goal is to migrate from 1Password to Bitwarden. I’ve been putting it off as I still have half a year of my subscription. But that does make it easier.

Thank you!

Heads up.

I just tried to do this after comparing the features that I use and what I'm paying 1p vs. the bw rate.

There seems to be no export mechanism from web access.

I tried installing the (Linux) desktop client, which exports to a different file format from the one, single 1p format listed as supported by bw.

Bw did not like it.

I also could not get it to digest the json-like data in the alternative paste import box.

If anyone knows how I can migrate without manually entering hundreds of logins by hand, that'd be super swell.

I got Windows going on a throwaway VM and installed the 1P client. Took 30 mins to an hour but surely a better option than recreating your vault by hand

Took me a little more than an hour, but you are right. This worked for me, thank you :)

That pushes me even further towards going that route. It looks like it requires an export-than-import though? https://bitwarden.com/help/article/import-from-1password/

It’s not a complete import, you’ll get usernames and passwords but if you’ve done anything else with it (like say attaching software license files, scans of important documents, etc) they’ll be silently dropped.

Most record types (software license, wireless router, documents, drivers licenses, email accounts, membership, passports, maybe more) don’t exist in Bitwarden. I’m not sure what happens with all of those, maybe transformed into secure note, but again with all of the attachments removed. The lack of categories is also a nuisance for organization, you can create folders but have to manage it manually.

I’m still glad I switched, having bought 1Password on a bunch of platforms and a bunch of paid upgrades before it turned into a subscription. It probably would have been less money if it had been a subscription from the start with all the times I bought it. Maybe it’s irrational, I just don’t like being so dependent on a subscription service, and having a local network sync between my devices was just fine. Same reason Lightroom can pound sand with their $120/year licensing, I’m not going to keep my photo library in something that I just have to keep paying for the rest of my life.

Bitwarden is good enough for me, with 1Password as a subscription you can look at it and realize “this is going to be $36/year forever.” If I spent any time in it, might be worth the expense. I’ve bought a lot of software and I don’t mind paying for good software. But I’ve moved the things that were attachments to an encrypted disk image, and 99% of my password manager interaction is via auto fill so I don’t actually care how polished the UI is.

Family sharing would be a more compelling reason to stick with it if you’re using that.

> It’s not a complete import, you’ll get usernames and passwords but if you’ve done anything else with it (like say attaching software license files, scans of important documents, etc) they’ll be silently dropped.

It's not quite a silent dropping -- 1Password warns you with a popup during the export that it doesn't include them in the export file. BitWarden won't warn you, but in its defense the files aren't even present for it to skip...

https://imgur.com/a/cjMbWZT

Before I started using 1Password I did use the secure disk image method for storing what I now store in 1Password. But it's only a few things, really, and in every case it's just to have quicker access to something normally stored in a file cabinet so I don't have to dig into the files.

i did this last year and it wasn't very smooth to say the least. but now, i'm happy that i did :)