Bitcoin Wallet

Bitcoin Wallet developers

About this app

Have your Bitcoins always with you, in your pocket! You pay by quickly scanning a QR code. As a merchant, you receive payments reliably and instantly. Bitcoin Wallet is a reference implementation of the "Simplified Payment Verification" as described in the Bitcoin whitepaper.


FEATURES

• No registration, web service or cloud needed! This wallet is de-centralized and peer to peer.
• Display of Bitcoin amount in BTC, mBTC and µBTC.
• Conversion to and from national currencies.
• Sending and receiving of Bitcoin via NFC, QR codes or Bitcoin URLs.
• When you're offline, you can still pay via Bluetooth.
• System notification for received coins.
• Sweeping of paper wallets (e.g. those used for cold storage).
• App widget for Bitcoin balance.
• Safety: Supports Taproot, Segwit and the new bech32m format.
• Privacy: Supports Tor via the separate Orbot app.


CONTRIBUTE

Bitcoin Wallet is open source and free software. License: GPLv3
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

Our source code is available at GitHub:
https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet

All translations are managed via Transifex:
https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet/


Use at your own risk! Use only for pocket-sized amounts.

Ratings and reviews

There REALLY needs to be a way to limit bandwidth used when syncing with the blockchain. I bought a new phone, so I transferred my wallet backup from the old phone and started the restore process. It's used 100GB of data so far in the last 24 hours, and there are still three YEARS worth of blockchain to go. I can't find any way to pause the syncing process, and it still appears to be running even after force-closing the app. And it's using as much of my internet bandwidth as it can get its hands on. Oh, and it's giving me an audible notification beep every time it syncs a new block! Until the ability to pause syncing and limit bandwidth are implemented, the wallet restore function of this app is practically unusable.

I installed app on a new phone a couple of weeks ago. I immediately imported a wallet from an old phone. That seemed to work fine. It said something about resyncing 30 months of data, after a long time it went down to 29 months, then 28 and so forth. It finally finished about a day later. and the phone was pretty warm :-) I left it plugged in. Over the course of about one day I was surprised to see my phone used 50 gigabytes of data (!) This was on Wi-Fi so it really wasn't a big deal. However, that doesn't seem normal I did a "report issue" with this info. I installed it on 3/11; at the time it was Version: 7.69 (469)

I downloaded the wallet, sent over $270 to my new wallet address and received a receipt from the BTC ATM. The chain should have confirmed my transaction and the BTC should be in my wallet by now. However, my $ is not there, despite me sending a "Report Issue" ticket and not hearing back. I fear that, after reading all of these reviews (which I should have done before downloading the app) this organization will not fix this issue. I hope I am proven wrong. I hope that the developers fix this.

What's new

v10.0-v10.01

* The app now requires Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher.

v9.24-v9.26

* The app language can be selected independent of the system language on Android 13 and above.

v9.0-v9.23

* The app now requires Android 7.0 (Nougat) or higher.
* Taproot - Phase I: Send to Bech32m addresses.
* Satoshi (sat) denomination can be selected in the settings.

v8.17-v8.19

* Add more block explorers.

v8.15-v8.16

* Setting for enabling of showing local amounts.