Localization

Change language

To change the language of a Bitwarden app:

Web app

The Bitwarden web app will default to the chosen language of your web browser, which is often in turn determined by your device's system language. To manually override this default and set a different language for the Bitwarden web app:

  1. SelectSettings → Appearance from the navigation:

Web app appearance Web app appearance 2. Select a language from the Languagedropdown.

Desktop

The Bitwarden desktop app will default to the your device's system language, however to override this default and set a different language for Bitwarden:

  1. Open the desktop app's Preferences panel (on Windows, File → Settings) (on macOS, Bitwarden → Preferences).
  2. Scroll to bottom of the App Settings section and use the Language dropdown to select your language:

Desktop app language setting Desktop app language setting

Mobile

The Bitwarden mobile app will default to the your device's system language, however to override this default and set a different language for Bitwarden:

  1. Open the mobile app and tap the Settings tab.
  2. Tap Appearance.
  3. Locate the Language field and select your preferred language:

Mobile app language setting Mobile app language setting 4. Restart the application in order to apply changes.

Browser extensions

The Bitwarden browser extension will default to the chosen language of your web browser, which is often in turn determined by your device's system language. There is not a setting in the browser extension to change language, however changing the language of your web browser will change the language of the extension:

Currently supported languages

The following languages are currently supported. Please note, not all languages are available for all client applications:

Symbol Language
af Afrikaans
ar الفصحى العربية
az Azərbaycanca
be Беларуская
bg български
ca català
cs čeština
cy Welsh
da dansk
de Deutsch
el Ελληνικά
en English
en-GB English (British)
eo Esperanto
es español
et eesti
fa فارسی
fi suomi
fr français
gl Galician
he עברית
hi हिन्दी
hr hrvatski
hu magyar
id Bahasa Indonesia
it italiano
ja 日本語
ko 한국어
lv Latvietis
ml മലയാളം
mr मराठी
my မြန်မာဘာသာ
nb norsk (bokmål)
ne नेपाली
nl Nederlands
or ଓଡ଼ିଆ
pl polski
pt-BR português do Brasil
pt-PT português
ro română
ru русский
sk slovenčina
sr Српски
sv svenska
te తెలుగు
th ไทย
tr Türkçe
uk українська
vi Tiếng Việt
zh-CN 中文（中国大陆）
zh-TW 中文（台灣）

Don't see your language?

If your language isn't listed in the web vault or desktop app, or if your browser extension or mobile app isn't dynamically using your language, we want your help!

Bitwarden uses a translation tool called Crowdin to manage our localization effort across many different languages (no programming knowledge required).

  • To contribute to or make corrections to an existing translation, join our project.
  • To start translating Bitwarden to a new language, join our project and contact the project owner.