Comparison

Proton Wallet vs Wandercoin

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

Head to head
About

Proton Wallet

This app provides a secure and user-friendly way to manage Bitcoin, giving users full control over their funds. It offers features like multi-device support, encrypted transactions, and a unique email-based sending option for enhanced privacy and ease of use.

Highlights
  • Sole control of BTC
  • Intuitive experience for newcomers
  • Seamless multi-device support
  • End-to-end encryption
  • BIP39 standard seed phrase
  • Bitcoin via Email feature
  • Automatic BTC address rotation
Features
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Proton Wallet is a secure, easy-to-use crypto wallet that gives you sole control of your BTC. We designed Proton Wallet for Bitcoin newcomers, offering an intuitive experience while ensuring only you can access your BTC. Unlike other self-custodial wallets, Proton Wallet offers seamless multi-device support so you can use your wallet from any mobile device or web browser. Similar to how Proton Mail made encrypted email easy-to-use for 100 million users, we hope Proton Wallet can help everyone around the world safely use Bitcoin in a peer-to-peer and self-sovereign way. ** Not your keys, not your coins ** Proton Wallet creates your wallet using a BIP39 standard seed phrase, ensuring seamless recovery and interoperability with other self-custodial wallets, including hardware wallets. This also means you can easily import existing wallets or recover your Proton wallets on other services. Your encryption keys and wallet data are protected with end-to-end encryption, so no one else — not even Proton — can access them. Proton Wallet makes storing and transacting with Bitcoin simple while encrypting all your sensitive data, giving you financial sovereignty and privacy. Proton servers cannot access your BTC and do not even know your historic transactions and balances. ** Freely transact onchain ** The Bitcoin network is the most decentralized, censorship-resistant and secure financial network. Every transaction from Proton Wallet is mined by the Bitcoin network and recorded forever on the Bitcoin blockchain so no one can dispute it. You will pay the current network fee to Bitcoin miners to include your transaction in the blockchain, but no transaction fee is charged by Proton Wallet. Proton Wallet is free for everyone because we believe financial freedom and privacy should be available to all. ** Send Bitcoin via Email ** Bitcoin transactions are permanent and there's no bank you can call if you make a mistake. Copying the wrong 26-character Bitcoin address can be catastrophic. Proton Wallet's unique Bitcoin via Email feature means you only need to verify another Proton Wallet user's email instead, reducing the likelihood of errors. Each BTC address is cryptographically signed with PGP by the recipient's app, ensuring that it belongs to the recipient. ** Keep transactions and balances private ** Due to our incorporation in Switzerland, your data is protected by some of the world's strictest privacy laws. We also minimize data on servers by encrypting all transaction metadata (including amounts, senders, recipients, and notes) on user devices. Each time you receive BTC from someone with Bitcoin via Email, we automatically rotate your BTC addresses, protecting your privacy and making it difficult to connect your transactions on the public blockchain. ** Multiple BTC wallets and accounts ** Proton Wallet makes it easy for you to create multiple wallets, each with its own 12-word seed phrase for recovery. Inside each wallet, you can also create multiple BTC accounts to organize and separate your assets for better privacy. After the default wallet, subsequent wallet creations support an optional passphrase as another layer of protection. Free users can have up to 3 wallets and 3 accounts per wallet. ** Protect your Bitcoin with Proton ** Choose a crypto wallet that's transparent, open source, optimized for Bitcoin, and puts you in control. You can protect your wallet with two-factor authentication and activate Proton Sentinel, our AI-powered advanced account protection system that identifies and blocks malicious logins. Our 24/7 specialist support team is always ready to assist you. Download Proton Wallet now and start protecting your financial freedom. For more information, visit our website: https://proton.me/wallet To learn more about Bitcoin, read our guide: https://proton.me/wallet/bitcoin-guide-for-newcomers

About

Wandercoin

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Wandercoin is the app you reach for when: You're standing in front of a price tag in another country and want to know whether 1,800 yen is closer to 11 or 18 euros. You're about to buy a camera lens from a Japanese website and want to see what your card will actually be billed. You're booking an apartment in Greece for September and wondering whether the dollar is going to wreck the price by then. You're back from a trip and the credit card statement landed with rates that look optimistic. You want to check what the rate actually was on the day you paid. How it does that Pick two currencies and type an amount on either side. The other side updates as you type. Star the currencies you use most often so they sit at the top of the picker. Under the conversion is a chart of how the pair has moved over the last week, month, three months, six, a year, or five. Drag your finger across it to see the exact rate on any past day, with a small haptic tick. Useful for sanity-checking that credit card statement, or for getting a feel of whether to exchange now or wait. Where the rates come from The European Central Bank publishes one reference rate per workday, around 4 PM Berlin time. Wandercoin pulls them from the open Frankfurter API and caches them on your device. No weekend updates, because the ECB doesn't publish on weekends. No live tick-by-tick rates either. If you trade forex by the second, this is the wrong tool. What it doesn't do No account, no signup, no email. No ads, no analytics, no third-party tracking. The currencies you pick, the ones you star and the last amount you typed all stay on your device and disappear when you uninstall. Crypto and precious metals are not included, because the data source doesn't cover them. The data source is open and public, and the source code is on GitHub if you want to look under the hood.

Screenshots

Proton Wallet4 screens
Wandercoin4 screens

Verdict

The call

Proton Wallet and Wandercoin are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Proton Wallet versus Wandercoin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProton WalletWandercoin
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (271 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings271 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProton AGPascal Glode

Bugs and requests

Proton Wallet

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Locking users out of the app
  • Order cancellations after long wait times

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to hide real credit card details
  • Support for Ethereum, Solana, and XRP

Wandercoin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Proton Wallet

No in-app purchases

None

Wandercoin

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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