Comparison

BlueWallet vs PayTime

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BlueWallet

Securely store, send, and receive Bitcoin with a user-friendly interface. This open-source wallet gives you full control of your private keys and offers advanced security features like plausible deniability and full encryption.

Highlights
  • Own your private keys
  • Unlimited free wallets
  • Open source
  • Plausible deniability
  • Full encryption
  • Hardware wallet integration
  • Flexible transaction fees
Features
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Your keys, your bitcoin. BlueWallet is a free, open source bitcoin wallet. Your private keys are created and kept on your device. Watch your cold storage, spend from multisig Vaults, sign with a hardware wallet, and choose exactly which coins pay. Made by bitcoiners, for bitcoiners. YOU HOLD THE KEYS • Private keys never leave your device. You control them. • Create as many wallets as you like, or import one with its recovery phrase. • Open source and MIT licensed. Read the code or build it yourself. COLD STORAGE AND MULTISIG • Watch-only wallets: follow your cold storage with just the public key. • Hardware wallet signing: build the payment on your phone, sign the PSBT on your device, broadcast from BlueWallet. • Multisig Vaults: require more than one key to spend. CONTROL EVERY PAYMENT • Coin control: label coins, freeze the ones you want kept apart, and pick which coins pay. • Flexible fees: you set the fee. • Speed up a pending payment, or cancel it, with Replace-By-Fee. • Send to many addresses in one transaction. • BIP47 payment codes: one reusable code for receiving. PRIVACY AND SECURITY • Full encryption: on top of iOS encryption, lock your wallets with your own password. • Plausible deniability: a second password opens a decoy storage if you are ever forced to unlock the app. • Your own node: connect to your Bitcoin full node through Electrum. Also available on Mac.

About

PayTime

Features
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PayTime shows you what your time is really worth. TIME CLOCK Clock in and watch your earnings grow live, right on the home screen — down to the second. Take a break, resume, clock out: your shift is saved automatically. PURCHASE CHECK Enter a price and instantly see how many hours of work stand behind it. Handy presets for coffee, a sandwich, movie tickets, sneakers, and more make the check a single tap. SHIFTS Log your work hours including weekend, holiday, and night shift bonuses. Grouped clearly by month, with one tap to repeat your last shift. OVERVIEW Track your monthly goal, see your earnings by weekday, and discover your personal records: best day, best month, longest shift. WISHLIST Save wishes straight from the purchase check and track how close every shift brings you to them. JOBS Set hourly wage, tax rate, and bonuses separately for each job. PREMIUM (one-time purchase, no subscription) • No ads • Multiple jobs at once • Unlimited wishes • 12-month history instead of 6 • CSV export of all shifts PayTime runs fully offline — your data stays on your device.

Screenshots

BlueWallet4 screens
PayTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BlueWallet at none against PayTime's 1. BlueWallet also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PayTime sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BlueWallet asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BlueWallet versus PayTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlueWalletPayTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (858 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings858 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBluewallet Services, S. R. L.Arthur Hardy Kotsch

Bugs and requests

BlueWallet

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Lightning wallet withdrawal issues
  • Wallet address changes without user knowledge
  • Crashes on startup or during transactions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize home screen and widgets
  • Option to hide wallet balances
  • Fiat currency support and conversion
  • Improved backup and recovery process
  • Better error handling and notifications

PayTime

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BlueWallet

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PayTime

One-time1
  • PayTime Premium$2.99

Questions

Is BlueWallet free?
BlueWallet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PayTime free?
PayTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BlueWallet or PayTime have ads?
PayTime shows ads; BlueWallet does not.

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