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C#2016–2023
bitwarden / mobile · Archived

mobile

Retired Bitwarden mobile app for iOS and Android (MAUI/Xamarin).

11Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
222GitHub stars
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What it is

Retired Bitwarden mobile app for iOS and Android (MAUI/Xamarin).

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-10-11 00:22:01 UTC to 2023-01-18 16:28:39 UTC.

012342016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

11 sources
The code for the server is AGPLv3 https://github.com/bitwarden/server , with only things in the /bitwarden_license/ directory being proprietary. The code for the mobile apps is GPLv3 https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/blob/master/LICENSE.txt The code for the clients is GPLv3 https://github.com/bitwarden/clients These are all copyleft... with a CLA (contributor license agreement). It's the CLA that allows them the ability to dual-license for the server. The VCs must really believe the company can produce a product based on Enterprise sales which would deliver a value North of $1B. And perhaps they can, as Bitwarden as we know it could be considered a strong beachhead to allow them to expand into other auth markets that have high value (hello Okta, Auth0, etc). But this doesn't seem that scary for Bitwarden users at this point.
In Bitwarden raises $100M
Bitwarden Mobile: https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile I will freely admit I am strongly biased against Xamarin as there are so few cases where I think it's unequivocally the right choice, and Bitwarden isn't one of them. It would make more sense to take the work done in their desktop electron app and use that as part of an Ionic hybrid mobile app than to screw around with the layercake of bugs and mismatched APIs that Xamarin is. Moreover, since this is a serious app from a security point of view it really should go full vendor native IMO.
In Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust
> I use Chrome, but the other major browsers like Edge or Firefox are fine too. They can isolate their trusted UI from websites, they don’t break the sandbox security model, they have world-class security teams, and they couldn’t be easier to use. I know its about browser integration, but take a look at the repository of Lockwise android app[1] that released the last version 6 months ago and Bitwarden app[2] with last release being 1 month ago (I tried to find the firefox browser version but its a mess to analyse the activity of it). I know firefox has a much larger team but I it doesnt necessarily mean that more competent devs taking are taking care of the browser password manager's security than 1Password for example - maybe this is true for Google Chrome but who knows about Firefox and Edge. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-lockwise/lock
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In Password Managers
Love bitwarden and use it every day (paid user). I like almost every part of the experience except an annoying issue where the autofill doesn't work on firefox android (everything latest version). it shows up 10% of the time, for a few milliseconds. I've seen similar issues dating back from a year ago (https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/784). Makes me wonder how such commonly used things can be so broken for so long (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339).
In LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it
There's nothing in that description that indicates the Slack app is written using Xamarin. From that link: "Slack's friendly, easy to use messaging platform is the future of work. Given its preeminence in the enterprise and among mobile workforces, mobile is critical to Slack’s success. Over three million daily users rely on Slack to communicate with their teams, and Xamarin Test Cloud helps Slack make sure customers are productive in all scenarios. Its mobile quality engineers view test reports to see how features look and behave on devices — and can quickly solve customer issues." Sounds like they just use Xamarin Test Cloud. Here's a list of decent looking Xamarin apps: - BitWarden (it's made the rounds recently on HN)[1] - Microsoft Pix [2] - A bunch of games that look pretty slick (I've downloaded a few and flipped through some of t
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In Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the whole site model may have been taken too far. I have plans for adding other "types" that will support other models. As a first simple step, we can add a free-form notes entry that you can put in whatever you want along with a descriptive name. For android, there is a issue that is being tracked for adding autofill support. iOS already supports this, I just did not have time to get it in for the 1.0.0 release on Android (see https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/issues/1). Also, I am an iOS user so I do not have a lot of experience with how android "should work" so that makes things a bit slower for me doing development there.
In Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager

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