Search your Vault

Bitwarden vaults can be searched to quickly surface relevant items. Basic searches can be made in any Bitwarden app, and more advanced full-text searches can be made in the web vault, desktop app, and browser extension.

The results available for any search are dependent on what is currently opened through the filter menu or navigation, for example:

• If All Items is selected, searches will check all vault items for results.

• If Login is selected, searches will check all login items for results.

• If My Folder is selected, searches will check items in that folder for results (not including items in a nested folder).

• If a Collection is selected, searches will check for results within the selected collection (not including items in nested collections).

The placeholder text in the search box will change to indicate the current search location:

Basic search is used by Bitwarden mobile apps. Entering search text (for example, Github or myusername) will look for the entered information in the following vault item fields:

• Item name

• For logins, username

• For logins, URI

• For cards, brand or last four digits of the number

• For identities, name

For your convenience, basic searches automatically include leading and trailing wildcards. For example, searching for mail will return items with the name gmail as well as email.

Search results are determined by a simple scoring mechanism. The more fields a search term appears in, the high that vault item's score. Learn more.

Searches in the web app, desktop app, and browser extension are automatically full-text and, like basic searches, automatically include leading and trailing wildcards. When results aren't found in a full-text search, Bitwarden will fall back to a basic search.

Full-text search will search the following fields for every vault item:

• shortid: First eight characters of the item's ID.

• organizationid: ID of the item's organization (if it belongs to one).

• name: Item's designated name.

• subtitle: Depending on item type; login username, card brand or last four digits of the number, or identity name.

• notes: Item's notes. Only full-word matches will be listed unless you use wildcards.

• fields: Name or value. Only Text type field values are included.

• attachments: Name of the attached file.

• login.username: Login item's username.

• login.uris: Login item's URI hostname value.

You can search for data in specific fields by starting a search query with the "greater than" (>) character and indicating a field as previously listed in the following format:

• >login.username:jsmith will search for login items with jsmith specified as the username.

• >name:Turbo Tax will search for any vault items with Turbo Tax specified as the name.

• >fields:Security Question will search for any vault items with a custom text field with the name Security Question.

If no field indicator is present, all indexed fields will be searched.

When searching specific fields, you can apply the asterisk (*) as a wildcard character for specified search values, for example:

• >organizationid:* will search for all vault items that belong to an organization.

• >-organizationid:* will search for all vault items that do not belong to an organization.

• >login.username:*@gmail.com will search for any login item username that ends in @gmail.com.

• >wild*: Will search for all vault items that contain the word wild and vault items with words that contain wild, for example wildcard .