Apple vs Bitwarden
Based on our analysis, Bitwarden is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Apple | Bitwarden |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | B+ · 78/100 | B+ · 79/100 |
| What they collect | Mixed (72) | Mixed (76) |
| Who they share it with | Positive (82) | Mixed (73) |
| What you can do | Positive (80) | Mixed (77) |
| What they promise | Positive (82) | Mixed (78) |
Apple collects significantly less data than other big tech companies and explicitly commits — using both Nevada and California legal definitions — to never selling or sharing your data for advertising. Their own ad platform doesn't use data brokers or cross-app tracking. Private personal data isn't used to train Apple's AI models. The main caveats are health, fitness, and financial data collection, government ID in some cases, and personalised ads that exist but are easy to turn off.
View full analysis →Bitwarden is an open source password manager that encrypts your vault on-device so it cannot read your passwords — but it uses Google Analytics on both the website and service, is a US company subject to FTC jurisdiction and government requests, collects meaningful amounts of administrative data for marketing and product improvement, and uses legitimate interest as a legal basis for several secondary data uses.
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