How Bitwarden and Junify differ for shared accounts at work

Bitwarden is a password manager: employees keep logins in a vault, share them inside the company and have them filled in. Junify lets people sign in to your company’s shared accounts without being shown the password. Bitwarden suits employees who manage their own passwords and share some with coworkers they trust. Junify suits shared accounts you’d rather not hand to the people who use them.

What Bitwarden does for a business

Bitwarden’s business plans are Teams and Enterprise. Both include event logs, groups of members and an authenticator that makes two-step verification codes. Enterprise adds sign-in through your identity provider, such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID. It also adds organization-wide policies, such as one that stops members other than owners and admins from exporting their own vault.

Sharing happens through collections, which are groups of items inside the company’s organization. An admin gives each member or group one of five permissions: view items, view items with hidden passwords, edit items, edit items with hidden passwords, or manage the collection. With a hidden password, the person can still sign in through autofill.

The event log records actions such as viewing an item, viewing its password, copying it and autofilling it. Each entry has the time, the app and IP address used, and the member.

Bitwarden also offers:

• Apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Android, browser extensions and a web vault.
• One-time codes made inside a login item and filled in by the browser extension.
• Passkeys saved in the vault and filled in by the browser extension or the mobile apps.

What Bitwarden leaves open for shared accounts

A hidden password counts as shared

Bitwarden says hiding a password makes copy and paste harder but “does not completely prevent user access to this information.” So it tells admins: “Treat hidden passwords as you would any shared credential.” Does hiding a shared password keep it secret? compares how the main products handle this.

A removed member’s device can keep a copy for a while

Bitwarden lets you revoke a member’s access for now or remove it for good, and either way they lose access to the organization’s items. Even so, Bitwarden advises changing the passwords the member could reach at the time of removal if you expect misuse. That’s because its apps keep a read-only copy for offline use, and that copy holds company items too. Some apps may still open it for a short time after the member is removed. The full steps are in What to stop and what to change when someone leaves a shared password manager.

Most log entries come from the person’s own app

Bitwarden itself warns that, for some organizations, its “event logs may not suffice for security, legal forensics, or auditing purposes.” The reason is where most entries come from: the member’s app, which passes them to Bitwarden’s server once a minute. An app that loses its connection, or has been modified to stop sending, leaves no record.

Records and removal stop at Bitwarden

The log covers what people did inside Bitwarden, and removing someone closes Bitwarden to them. We found no way, in Bitwarden’s help pages for password management, to record what someone does on the service after autofill. We also found no way there to block downloads on that service or close a site the person already has open on their computer.

Invitations need an email address

Bitwarden invites people by email. Enterprise also has invite links, which work only after the person verifies their address. Part-time staff without a company email need an address that receives mail.

Using Bitwarden and Junify together

Keep Bitwarden for the logins each employee owns, including passkeys and anything they open from the mobile apps. The shared logins you’d put in a collection with hidden passwords move to Junify.

When you move an account, change its password on the service first. Store the new password only in Junify, and delete the old item from the collection. If you skip the change, everyone who could open that collection can still sign in with the old password. That includes people whose permission hid it.

Which one fits

We filled the Bitwarden column from the Bitwarden Help Center and its download page alone. A “not found” cell says we didn’t see it there, not that Bitwarden lacks it. The FTC’s comparative advertising statement, 16 CFR 14.15(c), supports comparisons that clearly identify their basis.

Bitwarden alone is the better choice when you’re comfortable with the people who share logins knowing the passwords, and everyone has a company email. Its event log has to meet your record-keeping needs as well. It’s also the one to pick when people want the vault in a web browser, on their phones and in desktop apps, or keep passkeys there.

Junify fits the logins you’d otherwise put in a collection with hidden passwords, where Bitwarden suggests changing the passwords after a removal if you expect misuse. It also fits when staff change often and you’d rather skip that step. People with no company email can use it too, and you can block downloads and flag uploads while people use the service.