Comparison

Fully Noded vs Durin

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

Head to head
About

Fully Noded

A self-sovereign Bitcoin wallet that connects to your own node via Tor for enhanced privacy and security. It supports single and multi-signature wallets, utilizes PSBTs and output descriptors, and offers powerful recovery tools.

Highlights
  • Connects to your own Bitcoin node via Tor
  • Self-sovereign, private, and secure experience
  • Supports single and multi-signature wallets
  • Utilizes PSBTs and output descriptors
  • Powerful recovery tool for BIP39 phrases
  • Interoperability with Coldcard
Features
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Your node, your Bitcoin! Fully Noded is a bitcoin wallet that is powered completely by your own node over Tor. This makes using Bitcoin a truly self sovereign, private and secure experience, exactly the way it should be. Fully Noded offers an intuitive yet powerful interface where the home screen displays stats about the Bitcoin network as seen by your node, the active wallet tab offers a powerful but simple wallet experience that allows you to utilize single signature and multi signature wallets. Fully Noded uses psbt’s (partially signed bitcoin transactions) and output descriptors to take advantage of the latest and greatest functionality the Bitcoin Core codebase has to offer. With this architecture Fully Noded always keeps your private keys safely encrypted and securely stored on your device, users always have the ability to delete their seed words from the device and add them later at anytime. Fully Noded never stores your private keys on your node. Generally the way it works is Fully Noded uses a Bitcoin library called LibWally to sign transactions locally and create private keys locally. Your node acts a watch-only wallet and builds psbt’s which Fully Noded signs without letting your private keys get exposed to network requests. Fully Noded is also a powerful recovery tool, you can add any BIP39 recovery phrase and it will recover all of the popular wallets for you. The app offers excellent interoperability with Coldcard, just airdrop wallet export files and psbt’s to Fully Noded and watch the magic happen, using your Coldcard as a watch-only or multisig wallet powered by your own node has never been easier. Read more here: https://github.com/Fonta1n3/FullyNoded/blob/master/Readme.md For full functionality and compatibility we recommend using Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 For advanced users Fully Noded has a powerful suite of tools which are essentially a interface between you and your node’s bitcoin-cli commands as well, its a great learning tool where you can interact with Bitcoin Core like never before. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to us on our Telegram group: https://t.me/FullyNoded

About

Durin

This app provides native support for IPFS and IPNS protocols on your mobile device. It allows seamless interaction with IPFS links across the web and other applications, and enables file uploads and viewing directly within the app.

Highlights
  • IPFS and IPNS protocol support
  • Seamless web link integration
  • File uploads to IPFS
  • In-app file viewing
  • Native mobile IPFS utilization
Features
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Durin enables you to fully utilize the IPFS network on your mobile device. It adds native support for IPFS + IPNS protocols so links on the web and in apps work seamlessly. You can also upload files to the network and view them within the app.

Screenshots

Fully Noded4 screens
Durin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fully Noded at weekly against Durin's every 2 months. Fully Noded also leads on ratings volume (49 vs 9). Durin's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Fully Noded against 4.9 for Durin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fully Noded has 49 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Fully Noded's written reviews are positive against 100% of Durin's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fully Noded ships an update weekly, Durin every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Fully Noded versus Durin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFully NodedDurin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (49 ratings)4.9 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings49 — better9
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB16 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDenton LLCDavid Justice

Customer experience

Fully Noded

All ratings49 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative8.3%

Durin

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fully Noded

No in-app purchases

None

Durin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fully Noded free?
Fully Noded is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Durin free?
Durin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fully Noded or Durin?
Durin is rated higher. Fully Noded averages 4.8 out of 5 from 49 ratings, while Durin averages 4.9 from 9 ratings.
Do Fully Noded or Durin have ads?
Neither Fully Noded nor Durin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fully Noded or Durin?
Fully Noded ships an update weekly, and Durin every 2 months. Most recently, Fully Noded was updated on September 21, 2026 and Durin on June 5, 2026.

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