Trezor Safe 5 review

Pay the extra $70 for a Trezor Safe 5 only if the touchscreen is worth it to you. Against the $59 Safe 3 it adds a 1.54 inch color touchscreen with 240 x 240 pixels, haptic feedback, a Gorilla Glass front and a microSD slot, and nothing about the security model changes: the same EAL6+ certified secure element, the same fully open source firmware, the same on-device PIN and passphrase entry.

SatoshiLabs announced it in June 2024 as the successor to the Model T, and the touchscreen is the point. Checking a receiving address on a color display you can read in one go is meaningfully less error prone than scrolling one on a two line monochrome screen, and address checking is where self-custody mistakes actually happen. Backups follow the 12, 20 and 24 word standards with the Multi-share (Shamir) option, and the device works as a FIDO2 security key. Coin management runs through Trezor Suite on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android; on iOS the device is view only, with no swap, send, setup or device management.

A Bitcoin-only edition is sold alongside the multi coin version, running firmware with the other chains removed. Above the Safe 5 sits the Safe 7, which Trezor markets as the first quantum ready hardware wallet, meaning it can verify firmware signed with post-quantum cryptography when that arrives. It gets no review here.

One non-device risk to note: in August 2026 SecurityWeek reported a breach at ShipMonk, the third party firm fulfilling Trezor's orders, which exposed shipping details for around 14,000 customers. Keys and firmware were not involved, but treat any mail, message or call about your Trezor as untrusted by default.