Bitcoin-only wallets: 11 reviewed
- Top rated
- Bitcoin Core 4.7
- Price
- $99 to $349
- With a warning
- 3
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-26
Bitcoin Core is the highest-rated of the 11 bitcoin-only wallets we review, at 4.7 out of 5, and is free to download. All 11 support bitcoin and nothing else, 3 carry a warning, and 1 more is no longer sold. Ratings follow the product rubric on our about page, and the order below is by rating with unrated wallets last. Every fact here is on the linked review, with its sources.
The 11 bitcoin-only wallets, ranked by rating
Highest editorial rating first. A warning pill means the review carries a dated status note worth reading before you trust the wallet with money.
- 1
The reference implementation, and the only wallet here that checks the rules itself instead of trusting somebody else's server.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys in a wallet file on a machine that validates every block for itself
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- 2
The desktop wallet to coordinate hardware signers and multisig from, with a verification tool that also checks other projects' releases.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys in an encrypted file on your own computer or on a hardware signer, with no account anywhere
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- 3
The oldest bitcoin wallet still in active development, and the one whose users are hunted by a fake-update scam running since December 2018.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys generated and encrypted on your own machine, with transactions checked by SPV
- Runs on
- Android, Windows, macOS, Linux
- 4
Bitcoin-only line from $79 to $149 that ships no secure element on purpose: a locked Jade holds nothing worth extracting.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys protected by Blockstream's open source blind oracle rather than a secure element chip
- Runs on
- iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux
- 5
Bitcoin-only hardware from a US company, now sold as the $349 Passport Prime: keys, two factor codes, security keys and encrypted storage in one device.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys held on dedicated hardware and isolated from sandboxed apps by the KeyOS microkernel
- Runs on
- iOS, Android
- 6
Bitcoin-only phone wallet with real coin control and multisig vaults, whose Lightning side is custodial unless you run the server yourself.
- Keys
- self-custodial on-chain, while a Lightning balance is only as self-custodial as the LNDHub server behind it
- Runs on
- iOS, Android
- 7
A real Lightning node on your phone from the team behind Eclair, with a published fee table and a privacy tradeoff ACINQ states outright.
- Keys
- self-custodial, a real Lightning node running on your phone behind a 12 word seed
- Runs on
- iOS, Android
- 8
On-chain and Lightning in one balance behind a 2-of-2 multisig, backed up by an Emergency Kit file rather than twelve words.
- Keys
- self-custodial, a 2-of-2 multisig where your phone holds one key and your Emergency Kit holds both
- Runs on
- iOS, Android
- 9
Still a working bitcoin wallet, but the coinjoin coordinator that made its name was switched off by zkSNACKs on June 1, 2024.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys generated and stored on your own computer, never held by zkSNACKs
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- 10
Bitcoin-only air-gapped signer whose seed generation was weakened by a build error from March 2021 until fixed firmware landed on July 31, 2026.
- Keys
- self-custodial, keys held behind two secure elements from different vendors, signing air-gapped by choice
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- 11
The easiest Lightning wallet to start with, and a custodial one: the company holds your coins, and it has stopped offering that in the US and the EU.
- Keys
- custodial in its default mode, meaning the company holds the keys, with a separate self-custodial mode where you do
- Runs on
- iOS, Android
Side by side
The same 11 bitcoin-only wallets plus the 1 no longer sold, sortable by any column. Price is blank for software because a download has no price to publish.
| Review | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Core | Software | You | Yes | Available | Free download | Review |
| Blockstream Jade | Hardware | You | Yes | Available | $99 | Review |
| BlueWallet | Software | You | Yes | Available | Free download | Review |
| Coldcard | Hardware | You | Yes | Caution | $189 | Review |
| Electrum | Software | You | Yes | Available | Free download | Review |
| Foundation Passport | Hardware | You | Yes | Available | $349 | Review |
| Muun | Software | You | Yes | Available | Free download | Review |
| Phoenix | Software | You | Yes | Available | Free download | Review |
| Samourai Wallet | Software | You | Yes | No longer sold | Free download | Review |
| Sparrow Wallet | Software | You | Yes | Available | Free download | Review |
| Wallet of Satoshi | Software | Company by default | Yes | Caution | Free download | Review |
| Wasabi Wallet | Software | You | Yes | Caution | Free download | Review |
Bitcoin-only wallets that are no longer sold
Kept for anyone still searching for them. Each page says what happened, with dates, and names something that still works.
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The other hubs, with how many of these 11 each one also holds.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best bitcoin-only wallet?
Bitcoin Core, rated 4.7 out of 5, the highest score among the 11 bitcoin-only wallets we review on the product rubric published on our about page. It is free to download. Custody: self-custodial, keys in a wallet file on a machine that validates every block for itself. Sparrow Wallet is next at 4.7.
Which bitcoin-only wallets are hardware devices?
Blockstream Jade, Foundation Passport and Coldcard. The other 8 are software.
Which bitcoin-only wallets carry a warning?
Wasabi Wallet: zkSNACKs announced on May 2, 2024, days after US prosecutors charged the founders of Samourai Wallet, that it would discontinue the coinjoin coordination service behind Wasabi's headline privacy feature, and switched it off on June 1, 2024. Coldcard: A build error introduced in a March 2021 firmware migration left seed generation drawing on a software pseudorandom number generator instead of the hardware one, and attackers found it before Coinkite did. Wallet of Satoshi: Wallet of Satoshi pulled its app from US app stores and stopped serving US customers on November 23, 2023, then withdrew its custodial Lightning service across the European Union at the turn of 2026, as the MiCA transition periods and the DAC8 reporting rules closed in on custodial providers. Each review carries the full note with sources.
Which bitcoin-only wallets are no longer available?
Samourai Wallet. Its page says what happened, with dates, and names wallets that still work.
Every wallet we review compares the whole roster, hardware and software, with what each status means.