rbw
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Jan 14, 2026first mention
Oct 10, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I personally switched to rbw (https://github.com/doy/rbw) and its day and night.”
switched from Bitwarden CLIon “Bitwarden Dual License Model”
“much better maintained”
switched from Bitwardenon “Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Suppl…”
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“https://github.com/doy/rbw is a Rust alternative to the Bitwarden CLI.”
Caveats and dissent
“You're still pulling a lot of dependencies.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain 4 mentions
- Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells 2 mentions
- Bitwarden Dual License Model 1 mention
- The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden 1 mention
- I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden 1 mention
Data: rbw.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“I personally switched to rbw (https://github.com/doy/rbw) and its day and night.”
“https://github.com/doy/rbw Is an alternative Bitwarden cli front end.”
“Maybe I don’t need rbw (the rust reimplementation of bitwarden CLI) in my server”
“Including all the dependency tree is 785k LOC”
“You're still pulling a lot of dependencies.”
“much better maintained”
“https://github.com/doy/rbw is a Rust alternative to the Bitwarden CLI.”
“curl -H @<(rbw get gitlab-access-token | sed 's/^/Authorization: Bearer/') https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects”
“it would only be able to replace the `rbw` example”