Using any password manager at all is the most important part. Once you are, you get two main benefits - password uniqueness and password strength.

Uniqueness is important because when one site gets hacked, they're immediately going to try your email/pw combo on every other site in the world, and if you re-use passwords, you've just instantly lost multiple accounts at once. Unique passwords means you don't have that problem.

Strength is obvious, but using a manager means you can go really hard on strength and still not ever have to remember it.

You then only have to remember one strong pw for your manager account and then that's it forever.

Bitwarden is my favorite manager, and it's got a great self-hosted setup with Vaultwarden, but also their regular free plan is good enough for most people and the paid account is pretty cheap if you need multiple organizations. Has passkey and TOTP and everything else you'd expect these days too. Decent mobile apps and browser extensions.

But yeah honestly as long as you are using a password manager at all, that's the most important part. They're also usually pretty easy to migrate between if you want to try other ones out.

Privacy is my hobby horse.

Could not possibly recommend it more.

1 password is an option if you need it to be slightly prettier and slightly better integrated in iOS.

yes, i highly highly recommend using it

KeePass would be the truly private way to do it, but managing a syncing app like syncthing is a chore sometimes. Bitwarden is a good compromise. You should absolutely be using a password manager so that your passwords can be longer/more complex than can be remembered.

It's got me more regularly updating passwords for important things (that, and not reusing passwords). Unless you have some kind of bottomless memory, it'll probably help you

I'm using Kepeer for a password manager right now and they just rose their price. Should I switch to Bitwarden? Looking for a good password manager I can use on my phone and laptop that's cheaper than $30-something a year.

Yes use a password manager that is published and reputable. Bitwarden, the company, offers a free of charge tier on their own bitwarden instance but you can also use KeePass password databases which doesnt require any server.

@9to5@hexbear.net I self-host Vaultwarden (open source full rewrite of Bitwarden) and use the official Bitwarden browser extension and Android app (As far as I am aware there's no alternative? Correct me if I'm wrong). It's indespensible, one of my favourite pieces of software to use and I can't recommend it enough.

it did kind of crap out on me, idk whats up with that but it stopped loading my passwords one day.