Comparison

Proton Wallet vs Drip

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

Drip

Features
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Your subscriptions cost more than you think. Drip shows you exactly where your money goes — every month, quarter, and year. The trick most subscription apps won't tell you: showing costs monthly hides the pain. That "just €9.99/month" streaming service is €120 a year. Drip shows both — because you deserve the full picture. KEY FEATURES - Annual cost always visible — every service displays its true yearly cost alongside the billing amount. No more mental math. - Spending dashboard — your total recurring spend broken down by month, quarter, and year, with the next 14 days of charges at a glance. Drip Pro adds the deeper analysis: the 12-month trend, seasonal patterns and the split by category. - Smart service catalog — 80+ popular services pre-built with icons and colors. Adding Netflix, Spotify, or iCloud takes seconds. Anything else, add it as a custom service with its own icon and color. - Your own categories (Drip Pro) — create as many as you need, pick the icon and color, and file each service where it actually belongs. - Payment tracking — know exactly when each service renews. By default a charge counts as paid on its date; if you pay some by hand, turn that off and mark each one with a swipe or a tick. - Every billing cycle — weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly, every six months, yearly, or any custom number of days. Drip calculates the monthly equivalent so you can compare like with like. - Free trials — track when a trial ends before it turns into a charge. - Monthly budget (Drip Pro) — set a limit and see how much of it your services already take. - Annual recap (Drip Pro) — once Drip has a few months with you, see what you've spent, your biggest drip, and what pausing services saved you. - Widgets (Drip Pro) — your total and your next charges on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, with the countdown always current. - Siri Shortcuts (Drip Pro) — ask for your monthly total or your next bill without opening the app. - Colour themes (Drip Pro) — Copper stays free; Ink, Petrol and Receipt recolour the whole app, day and night. - Pause, don't delete — paused services stay in your history without counting toward your totals. - Reminders — optional local notifications before each charge and a weekly summary. - iCloud sync — optional, on by default so your services follow you across devices. You can turn it off in Settings any time. - English, Spanish and French. DRIP PRO — ONE PURCHASE, FOR GOOD Drip is free, and the daily loop is free: unlimited services, the dashboard, reminders, every billing cycle, trials, pause, iCloud sync. Drip Pro is a single purchase — no subscription, shared with your family — and opens the annual recap, the deeper analysis, the monthly budget, your own categories, the widgets and Siri. Try it free for 30 days first, once per Apple ID: nothing is charged, and when the month ends the Pro features close again while whatever you created with them stays yours. There's also an optional tip jar, in case Drip earns its place on your phone and you feel like saying thanks. It unlocks nothing. No account, no ads. Your data stays on your device and in your iCloud. No gamification. No guilt trips. No judgmental copy telling you to spend less. Drip presents the facts clearly and lets you decide. You spend €2,340 a year on services — the number speaks for itself. Built by Seize — tools that empower people to take control.

Screenshots

Proton Wallet4 screens
Drip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Proton Wallet at none against Drip's 4. Drip's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Drip sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Proton Wallet asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Proton Wallet ships an update every 3 weeks, Drip every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Proton Wallet versus Drip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProton WalletDrip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (266 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings266 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size163 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProton AGSendoa Sola Osorio

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

Drip

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Proton Wallet

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Drip

One-time4
  • A coffee$2.99
  • A meal$4.99
  • A dinner$8.99
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  • Drip Pro$8.99

Questions

Is Proton Wallet free?
Proton Wallet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drip free?
Drip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Proton Wallet or Drip have ads?
Neither Proton Wallet nor Drip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Proton Wallet or Drip?
Proton Wallet ships an update every 3 weeks, and Drip every 3 days. Most recently, Proton Wallet was updated on October 21, 2026 and Drip on October 11, 2026.

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