Setting up a new BW account that my wife and I will share on our separate phones. Can we do the regular premium account, or do we need the families account?
Thank you!
Sure, you both can share one Bitwarden account and have it on each device. If you don’t mind each other knowing each other’s passwords there is no problem with this and will be the easiest way to go about it. You don’t need premium either unless you need the premium features.
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If you do both have a Premium subscription, you can also use the Free Organization feature to move your credentials/private information to a shared space that both can access. This works for only two people, however, and it is not as fully featured as a Family Organization.
https://bitwarden.com/help/article/about-organizations/#types-of-organizations
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That is what my wife and I have done. It has worked out fine for us.
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Saw this thread so piggy-backing.
- Is there an advantage between sharing one Individual account vs. doing a Family Plan? There are some things we share and buy some sites where we have separate log-ins. Not worried about seeing one-another’s log-ins.
- If the wife created an Individual Plan, can it be converted to a Family Plan? Or would it be better to just create a new account (which would allow me to manage it since I usually do better on stuff like this).
Also (slightly different topic), why couldn’t I use her log-in on this chat community? I had to create a new one to post these questions.
Going to jump on this thread as well.
Sharing all the login information and accounts is no problem, it’s actually a plus as we’ve gone through having elder parents and trying to find or figure out open accounts of one kind or another.
But a question. Can you have the application send the 2-step to different phones for example?
Login for site A goes to phone #1, but login for site B goes to phone #2.
Thanks All
David
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The primary one is that with an organization (free or family), you can share logins which are common to both people while the logins that apply only to one of the two people (think e-mail logins as one example) are not visible to the other person. With many people having (perhaps) a hundred or more personal logins, this is a big advantage.
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Given the title here is a good one, and I found it quickly on a search, I’m reviving this; hope that’s ok.
I’m dealing with exactly this issue, and after a talk with the spouse, here were my conclusions. Note that I am not yet a Bitwarden expert, but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night… 
- So correct me if I’m wrong, please.
As with all things, a lot of this is trust. If you don’t want your spouse to see your logins/sites/etc., you should definitely have separate accounts - you probably don’t even want an organization with two users.
If you don’t mind knowing each other’s passwords/etc, “we” say it would be fine to share, and simpler. No organization, permissions etc. Just a lot of work to create folders, etc. since there are no multiple vaults (we are coming from 1password).
OTOH, setting up an organization, with two users, would have one advantage - have 95% totally shared, but my hobby websites logins would be only viewable by me, and my spouse’s logins that don’t interest me would not be viewable by me. And whatever else that was truly particular to one or the other.
Given organizations, both of us would be “superadmins” (or whatever it is called), and could change this around, and that would be transparent.
But it would create three “spaces” - spouse1, shared, spouse2.
That’s my take - getting ready to take the 1password to Bitwarden plunge - and plan to do the organization bit as it does seem superior to “just share one giant pot of passwords”.
Any thoughts appreciated, whether I’m incorrect, or missing something that I didn’t consider.
Hi there @SSC and welcome to the forums. Your take is correct. Each person has their own Bitwarden account and login, and you can create one free Organization (shared space) between you with up to 2 Collections (a collection being a set of items like shared folder).
Help article on setting that up is https://bitwarden.com/help/getting-started-organizations/
Later on if you ever decide you want to upgrade to a Family Organization you can do that too.
By the way, every Bitwarden account has the ability to launch a free 2-person Organization, so if one of you needed to maintain another Organization with another person, you have that option also.
Good luck!
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One issue with this suggestion is that it violates the Terms of Service, which prohibit sharing of a single login by multiple individuals.
Didn’t know that. Interesting that no one brought that up in the earlier part of the discussion.
Sounds like an organization with two users is the way to go then.