I am a new user to BW. This is EXACTLY the question I wanted to ask. I see that this thread is 4 1/2 years old. Has anything changed? Right now I feel lucky that I figured out how to use the FireFox browser extension. So, I installed the Windows desktop app and the little blue shield is in my toolbar. BUT WHAT IS THE POINT of installing the standalone windows BW app? For instance I would like to use BW to store my QUICKEN vault PW. How do I do THAT?
Right now I feel lucky that I figured out how to use the FireFox browser extension. So, I installed the Windows desktop app and the little blue shield is in my toolbar. But what is the advantage of installing the standalone windows BW app? For instance I would like to use BW to store my stand alone app- QUICKEN vault PW. How do I do THAT?
@Steven_Kramer Welcome to the forum!
As you already stated, the other post was an older post… and as you already “double posted”, I merged those two posts to a new “topic”. (the old one is still linked at the bottom of the first post here)
Welcome, @Steven_Kramer to the community. There are a few feature requests that address this question. After you have browsed around a bit, feel free to go vote for one or both of them.
In short, the desktop app facilitates use of biometrics, but it does not yet have native app autofill.
@Steven_Kramer Welcome to the forum!
You can certainly store the password in a regular login item in stored in your Bitwarden vault, but you cannot (yet) do “auto-typing” (whereby Bitwarden automatically transfers the password into the password input filed in your Quicken app). Instead, you’d have to either copy-and-paste the password, or (if Quicken supports it), drag-and-drop the password from the password field in the Bitwarden Desktop app into the password input field in Quicken. Drag-and-drop is a more secure method, so you should use it over copy-and-paste whenever possible.
However, if you read through some of the later comments in the auto-type feature request, you will find that Bitwarden has plans to implement this, and that there is currently an alternative desktop app available that can already do this.