Comparison

BlueWallet vs AA

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

AA

Features
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AA keeps track of who owes whom in a group, and leaves it that way. Nobody settles up at the end: whoever owes the most takes the next bill, so there is always a reason to meet again. Record what you paid and who was there. AA works out each person's share and updates what everyone owes. Multi-currency Track costs in more than twenty currencies and read the total in any one of them. Works offline Add expenses with no signal — they upload themselves once you are back. Complete history Every change is logged, so you can always trace how a balance came to be. Your data, exportable Export everything as JSONL whenever you like.

Screenshots

BlueWallet4 screens
AA4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BlueWallet at 4 against AA's 1. BlueWallet also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
BlueWallet versus AA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlueWalletAA
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (858 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings858 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBluewallet Services, S. R. L.MEET SOFTWARE COMPANY LIMITED

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

AA

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

BlueWallet

No in-app purchases

None

AA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BlueWallet free?
BlueWallet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AA free?
AA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BlueWallet or AA have ads?
Neither BlueWallet nor AA shows ads.

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