# Pick a Monero wallet

> Mobile, desktop, or hardware? Hot vs cold, view-key vs full custody. The decision tree + xmr.club picks for each path.

Canonical URL: https://xmr.club/guides/pick-a-monero-wallet

## Overview

Every wallet trades off something. Mobile = convenient but always-online. Desktop = full-node-capable but tied to one machine. Hardware = cold storage but slow to spend. The right answer depends on whether you're buying $50 of XMR for a single use or sitting on a stake. Here's the decision tree.

## Body

Quick decision tree Single-use, small amount? → Cake or Monerujo on mobile. Bootstraps in under a minute. Daily driver, multi-account? → Feather on desktop. Has Tor built-in, PGP-signed releases. Cold storage of larger stake? → Hardware wallet (Ledger Nano S+/X, Trezor Safe 5) + Monero GUI as the host. Sign offline. Want a remote node so your wallet doesn't sync the whole chain? → Any of the above can point at a public remote node. See /nodes for vetted options. What to actually look for Open source. Source available + reproducible builds. The official Monero GUI/CLI is the gold standard. Tor option built-in. Cake, Monerujo, and Feather all route to a remote node over Tor without you having to set up a SOCKS proxy. Subaddress support. Modern wallets create a fresh subaddress per incoming transaction by default — keeps the public-facing receive address unlinkable across trades. Multisig if you're holding for someone else. 2-of-3 between you / a trusted party / a recovery key keeps a single phone loss from being a single point of failure. What to avoid Custodial wallets. If a "wallet" is run by a third party (browser-only, web-app, no seed download), you don't own the keys. Forks of Monero GUI without a real maintainer. If the last commit is 18 months ago, assume it's abandoned and won't get fork-protection updates. Anything that asks for email or phone on first launch. XMR wallets need none of that. A-grade picks

## Recommended picks

- [Cake Wallet](https://xmr.club/wallets/cake-wallet) · /llm/wallets/cake-wallet.txt — Mobile-first, fastest setup. Built-in Tor, supports BTC/LTC/XMR in one shell.
- [Monerujo](https://xmr.club/wallets/monerujo) · /llm/wallets/monerujo.txt — Android-only XMR wallet with PayJoin-style features.
- [Feather](https://xmr.club/wallets/feather) · /llm/wallets/feather.txt — Desktop power-user wallet. Tor by default, PGP-signed releases.
- [Monero GUI](https://xmr.club/wallets/monero-gui) · /llm/wallets/monero-gui.txt — Official client — slowest to sync but the canonical reference.

## License

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