Trezor Safe 5
Cold storage
Trezor at its best: fully open-source firmware paired, at last, with an EAL6+ secure element and a c...
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Tangem Wallet
Card-format cold storage
A tap-to-use cold wallet in a card that sets up in about ninety seconds, with an EAL6+ secure chip a...
Read review →Ridge Wallet
Minimalist everyday carry
A slim metal cardholder with genuine RFID shielding and a lifetime build. The reference point for mi...
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Reviews fact-checked by Marko
Every review below was written at the WalletPicks desk and fact-checked by Marko before it went live: prices, specifications, security claims and recovery details all verified against primary sources.
Trezor Safe 5
Cold storage
Trezor at its best: fully open-source firmware paired, at last, with an EAL6+ secure element and a c...
Read review →Tangem Wallet
Card-format cold storage
A tap-to-use cold wallet in a card that sets up in about ninety seconds, with an EAL6+ secure chip a...
Read review →Ridge Wallet
Minimalist everyday carry
A slim metal cardholder with genuine RFID shielding and a lifetime build. The reference point for mi...
Read review →Secrid Miniwallet
Slim cardholder
A slim Dutch wallet built around an aluminium Cardprotector: push a lever and your cards fan out for...
Read review →Keystone 3 Pro
Air-gapped cold storage
A fully air-gapped wallet with a big 4-inch touchscreen, a fingerprint reader and three secure-eleme...
Read review →NGRAVE ZERO
Air-gapped cold storage
A security-maximalist, fully air-gapped wallet with the only EAL7-certified operating system in cryp...
Read review →Bellroy Mag Wallet
MagSafe card wallet
A MagSafe card holder with a genuinely secure snap, a fold-out phone stand, and a three-year warrant...
Read review →Ekster Wallet
Smart cardholder
A leather-over-aluminium cardholder that fans your cards out at the push of a lever, with RFID-shiel...
Read review →BitBox02
Cold storage
A tiny Swiss-made cold wallet with fully open-source, reproducible firmware, a dual-chip design and...
Read review →Ledger Nano X
Hardware wallet
Ledger's mainstream flagship: a certified secure element and the widest coin support, with Bluetooth...
Read review →Arculus Wallet
Card-format cold storage
A metal card wallet with a bank-grade EAL6+ secure element and three-factor tap-to-sign. Cold-storag...
Read review →ELLIPAL Titan 2.0
Air-gapped cold storage
A sealed-metal, fully air-gapped wallet with a 4-inch touchscreen, a self-destruct anti-tamper body...
Read review →Nomad Leather Mag Wallet
MagSafe card wallet
A Horween leather MagSafe wallet with a built-in, rechargeable Find My tracker. Premium, findable, a...
Read review →Rabby Wallet
Hot wallet (software)
A DeFi-first EVM wallet that shows you exactly what a transaction will do before you sign, and switc...
Read review →Bellroy Note Sleeve
Slim leather wallet
A slim leather bifold that still carries real cash and up to eleven cards, from a certified B Corp....
Read review →Trezor Model One
Cold storage
The original hardware wallet: proven, open-source and affordable, if now showing its age.
Read review →SecuX V20
Cold storage
A polished aluminium cold wallet with a big 2.8-inch touchscreen, an Infineon EAL5+ secure element a...
Read review →Zengo
Hot wallet (software)
A keyless MPC wallet with no seed phrase to lose or get phished for, recovered by your face and emai...
Read review →MetaMask
Hot wallet (software)
The default gateway to Ethereum and Web3, now genuinely multichain across EVM, Solana and Bitcoin fr...
Read review →Groove Wallet
Minimalist everyday carry
An aluminium minimalist wallet with a smooth thumb-slide card ejector, built-in RFID blocking and a...
Read review →Phantom
Hot wallet (software)
The wallet that made Solana easy, now multi-chain across Ethereum, Bitcoin and more, with clean desi...
Read review →UN
Uniswap Wallet
Self-custody DeFi wallet
The self-custody wallet from the team behind the biggest decentralized exchange, with in-app swaps,...
Read review →Ledger Nano S
Cold storage
The compact original that made Ledger a household name. Its certified secure chip is as safe as ever...
Read review →SafePal S1
Air-gapped cold storage
A fully air-gapped cold wallet for under $50, with a certified secure element, a self-destruct anti-...
Read review →Fantom Wallet
Minimalist quick-access wallet
An aluminium quick-access wallet whose lever fans your cards out in a cascade, in a modular line spa...
Read review →Coinbase Wallet
Hot wallet (software)
Coinbase self-custody wallet, where you hold your own keys, not the custodial exchange. Broad chains...
Read review →Ridge Wallet for MagSafe
MagSafe card wallet
A premium aluminium MagSafe wallet that works as a standalone cardholder too, with RFID blocking. Ju...
Read review →RA
Rainbow Wallet
Self-custody Ethereum wallet
The best-looking self-custody wallet for Ethereum and its layer-2s, open source with Ledger and Trez...
Read review →Oldis Road Oldis One
Minimalist leather wallet
A handmade, full-grain vegetable-tanned leather wallet with a vertical design and a lifetime free-re...
Read review →PROOF Wallet
Minimalist everyday carry
A leather-and-aluminium minimalist wallet with a high card capacity, RFID blocking and an unusually...
Read review →Kraken Wallet
Hot wallet (software)
A free, open-source self-custody mobile wallet from the Kraken exchange, with no account or KYC requ...
Read review →D'CENT Biometric Wallet
Biometric cold storage
One of the first hardware wallets with a fingerprint sensor: unlock and sign with a touch, over Blue...
Read review →Exodus
Hot wallet (software)
A beautifully designed desktop and mobile wallet with a built-in exchange, from a US-listed public c...
Read review →EL
Electrum Wallet
Desktop Bitcoin wallet
A veteran, open-source, self-custody Bitcoin wallet with unmatched fee and coin control. Powerful an...
Read review →XA
Xaman Wallet
XRP Ledger self-custody wallet
The most complete self-custody wallet for the XRP Ledger, formerly XUMM, with the DEX, AMM, trustlin...
Read review →Serman Brands 5.0
Minimalist leather wallet
A slim full-grain leather bifold with RFID blocking and a pull-tab, at a price that undercuts almost...
Read review →Trust Wallet
Hot wallet (software)
A friendly, hugely multi-chain mobile wallet that holds almost anything and connects to dApps out of...
Read review →ON
OneKey
Open-source hardware wallet
A fully open-source hardware and software wallet with reproducible builds, multiple secure elements,...
Read review →MOFT Flash Wallet & Stand
MagSafe wallet stand
A slim vegan-leather MagSafe wallet that folds into a two-angle phone stand. Great value and versati...
Read review →SO
Solflare Wallet
Self-custody Solana wallet
A Solana-native self-custody wallet built around staking, with three hardware-wallet options and a c...
Read review →RO
Robinhood Wallet
Self-custody crypto wallet
Robinhood's standalone self-custody wallet is polished and multichain, with Bitcoin and Solana suppo...
Read review →SA
Saddleback Leather Wallet
Full-grain leather wallet
Heavy, over-built full-grain leather wallets with a 100-year warranty that will outlast you. The tra...
Read review →OK
OKX Wallet
Self-custody Web3 wallet
A powerhouse self-custody wallet: 130-plus chains, a deep swap and bridge aggregator, and both seed-...
Read review →CY
Cypherock X1
Seedless hardware wallet
A seedless cold wallet that splits your key across a tap device and four cards, so there is no singl...
Read review →Smartish Side Hustle
MagSafe card wallet
A budget MagSafe card wallet with a surprisingly firm grip and a lifetime warranty. Just keep it ful...
Read review →BL
Blockstream Jade
Bitcoin hardware wallet
A cheap, fully open-source Bitcoin and Liquid hardware wallet with a camera for air-gapped signing....
Read review →Apple FineWoven Wallet with MagSafe
MagSafe card wallet
Apple's own MagSafe wallet has clean Find My integration and a slim look, but the FineWoven fabric w...
Read review →BI
Bitget Wallet
Self-custody Web3 wallet
A feature-packed self-custody wallet, formerly BitKeep, with 130-plus chains, a strong swap engine,...
Read review →CA
Cake Wallet
Privacy multi-currency wallet
The go-to open-source, non-custodial wallet for Monero and Bitcoin privacy, with no KYC and Silent P...
Read review →BI
Bitkey
Bitcoin hardware wallet
Block's Bitcoin-only hardware wallet ditches the seed phrase for a 2-of-3 setup across your phone, a...
Read review →BL
BlueWallet
Bitcoin and Lightning wallet
A free, open-source Bitcoin and Lightning wallet that packs desktop-grade features into a phone: mul...
Read review →CO
CODE 118 Wallet
MagSafe metal card wallet
A slim aluminum card wallet with a pop-up ejector, RFID blocking and a MagSafe version, at roughly h...
Read review →KU
KuCoin Wallet
Self-custody Web3 wallet
KuCoin's self-custody Web3 wallet packs swaps, 20 chains, staking and in-wallet perps into one app....
Read review →OL
Oliver Co. London Compact Wallet
Vegan minimalist wallet
A genuinely slim, good-looking minimalist wallet made from apple-based vegan leather by a B Corp. RF...
Read review →GU
Guarda Wallet
Multichain self-custody wallet
A veteran non-custodial wallet covering an enormous range of coins across web, desktop, mobile and e...
Read review →GE
Gemini Wallet
Regulated exchange wallet
The wallet inside the Winklevoss-founded Gemini exchange is heavily regulated and insured, with a ne...
Read review →CO
Coldcard
Bitcoin hardware wallet
A Bitcoin-only, air-gapped signer with dual secure elements and open-source firmware, long the power...
Read review →MU
Muun Wallet
Bitcoin and Lightning wallet
The easiest way to self-custody Bitcoin and Lightning in one app, with no channels to manage. The ca...
Read review →CO
Coinomi Wallet
Multichain self-custody wallet
One of the oldest multichain wallets, self-custody with huge coin support and strong privacy. Two th...
Read review →UP
Uphold
Custodial multi-asset platform
A custodial platform that trades crypto, metals and currencies in one account, with real-time proof...
Read review →WA
Wasabi Wallet
Bitcoin privacy desktop wallet
A respected open-source, Tor-by-default Bitcoin desktop wallet, but its signature CoinJoin no longer...
Read review →ET
eToro Money Wallet
Custodial broker wallet
The crypto wallet from the eToro broker is simple and regulated, but despite the name it is custodia...
Read review →BA
Ballet REAL Series
Physical cold-storage card
A beautifully simple metal cold-storage card with no seed phrase, no app setup and no electronics. T...
Read review →KE
KeepKey
Bitcoin and crypto hardware wallet
A cheap, large-screen, open-source hardware wallet built on Trezor firmware. The catch is serious: n...
Read review →Atomic Wallet
Hot wallet (software)
A free, non-custodial all-in-one hot wallet for 1,000+ assets, with swaps and staking built in. Over...
Read review →SIMPL Toggl Wallet
Minimalist quick-access wallet
A cheap, slim pop-up card wallet that copies the look of premium rivals. It is light on the wallet,...
Read review →AB
Abra
Crypto platform (institutional)
Once a popular retail crypto app, Abra wound down its US retail business in 2023 after regulatory se...
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