Alternatives to Monero GUI Wallet
The official desktop wallet for sending, receiving and storing the privacy-focused Monero cryptocurrency. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Monero GUI Wallet
The official desktop wallet for sending, receiving and storing the privacy-focused Monero cryptocurrency.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Monero GUI Wallet.
Feather
A small, fast, open-source Monero desktop wallet for Linux, Tails, Windows and macOS.
Feather is a lightweight open-source Monero desktop wallet with a feature set close to the official CLI, and it runs on live systems such as Tails.
Cake Wallet
An open-source, non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet for Monero, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and other coins.
Cake Wallet is an open-source non-custodial wallet with strong Monero support plus Bitcoin and other coins, adding Android and iOS apps, built-in swaps and hardware wallet support.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Bisq
Open-source desktop application for buying and selling bitcoin peer-to-peer without registration or a central server.
Wasabi Wallet
Privacy-focused Bitcoin desktop wallet with built-in CoinJoin mixing.
Electrum
A lightweight open-source Bitcoin wallet for desktop and Android, developed continuously since 2011.
Sparrow Wallet
Power-user desktop Bitcoin wallet with broad hardware wallet support.
