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Best mobile crypto wallets

Mobile wallets are the usual starting point if you want crypto on your phone.

These picks focus on self-custody software wallets with clear backup paths. Exchange apps and custodial accounts are excluded.

Phoenix Wallet

Phoenix Wallet

users wanting a simple self-custodial Lightning experience

Phoenix combines ordinary Bitcoin recovery-phrase custody with an abstracted Lightning node/payment experience; convenience depends on understanding liquidity, channel, fee, and infrastructure tradeoffs.

Custody: Self Custody

Platforms: iOS, Android

Role: Payments Wallet

BitcoinLightningMobile

Free

Muun Wallet

Muun Wallet

mobile Bitcoin users who want simple on-chain and Lightning payments

Muun’s 2-of-2 model is a meaningful recovery and phone-compromise distinction, but it is not a conventional seed wallet and therefore needs unusually clear backup education.

Custody: Self Custody

Platforms: iOS, Android

Role: Payments Wallet

BitcoinLightningMobile

Free

BlueWallet

BlueWallet

mobile Bitcoin users who want flexible wallet-type and own-node options

BlueWallet is open source and flexible for Bitcoin users, but the app’s separate Bitcoin, watch-only, and Lightning wallet types make recovery and provider analysis essential.

Custody: Self Custody

Platforms: iOS, Android

Role: Payments Wallet

BitcoinLightningMobile

Free

AQUA Wallet

AQUA Wallet

mobile Bitcoin users who need Liquid USDt and Lightning in one app

AQUA targets practical Bitcoin/Liquid payments and self-custody, but its network-specific recovery and service dependencies need more evidence than the high-level product page provides.

Custody: Self Custody

Platforms: iOS, Android

Role: Payments Wallet

BitcoinLightningMobile

Free

Argent Wallet

Argent Wallet

Ethereum users who want smart-account rules and social recovery

Argent’s smart-contract and guardian model offers recovery and policy controls unavailable to a standard EOA, but the account depends on contract rules, guardians, gas, and surface-specific recovery semantics.

Custody: Self Custody

Platforms: iOS, Android, Web

Role: Smart Account Wallet

Smart contractAccount AbstractionSocial Recovery

Free

Atomic Wallet Mobile

Atomic Wallet Mobile

Android multi-asset users who can independently protect a 12-word backup

The mobile product has the same basic self-custody phrase model as Atomic Desktop but a materially different availability profile, so it remains a limited, higher-risk surface pending further research.

Custody: Self Custody

Platforms: Android, iOS

Role: Consumer Wallet

Multi-chainMobileDeFi & Web3

Free

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