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There are hundreds of "top 10 wallets" round-ups online, and nearly all of them are copied from one another. We went a different way: for each wallet we took what can be checked right now — the swap fee, the number of networks, whether the code is open, the rating and the number of reviews in the store. And for each we wrote down where it is weak, including the one this site is about.
14 September 2026 · verified at publication
Rainbow comes first not because it is the best, but because this portal is about it — it is where we start and it is the one we know most about. This round-up is not a ranking: by review count in the App Store, Rainbow is twentieth out of the twenty-six wallets we looked through for this — twelve are covered below, the rest added nothing new to the picture, and pretending that is first place would be a lie. After it the wallets run in order of audience size, and the decision is yours.
One rule matters more than the whole list. All twelve are self-custody: the key is created on your device, and not one of them can return your access or cancel a transfer. A secret phrase written down on paper counts for more than the choice between rows in a table.
| Wallet | Rating | Reviews | Networks | Swap fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow | 4.64 | 4,192 | 24, EVM only | 0.85%, declared |
| Trust Wallet | 4.65 | 198,872 | 100+, bitcoin included | not declared |
| Coinbase Wallet | 4.55 | 161,420 | many networks | not declared |
| MetaMask | 4.74 | 76,127 | EVM + Solana | 0.875% |
| Phantom | 4.78 | 64,217 | Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin | baked into the rate |
| Exodus | 4.61 | 37,159 | many networks | baked into the rate |
| Tangem | 4.89 | 24,291 | many networks | baked into the rate |
| Uniswap | 4.85 | 19,688 | EVM | 0.25% |
| SafePal | 4.74 | 16,994 | many networks | baked into the rate |
| Ledger | 4.85 | 15,149 | many networks | through partners |
| Zerion | 4.76 | 4,739 | EVM | 0.5% |
| Rabby | 3.49 | 1,271 | EVM | 0.25% |
Ratings and review counts come from Apple's public listing, US storefront, taken while this article was being prepared. It is the only comparable figure that exists for all of them at once. "Baked into the rate" means the fee is not shown as a separate line: it sits in the difference between the swap rate and the market one, and cannot be worked out in advance.
Store ratings for almost all of them fall between 4.5 and 4.9, and the wallets cannot be told apart by them. Three things do tell them apart, and each is worth settling in advance.
This is the hardest fork in the road. Wallets that work only with EVM networks — Rainbow, MetaMask, Uniswap, Zerion, Rabby — do not support bitcoin at all, and there is no way around it. Send BTC to one of them and the money is gone.
The difference between 0.25% and 0.875% is invisible on a hundred dollars and turns into thousands across a large turnover. On a ten thousand dollar swap Rabby takes about 25 dollars and MetaMask about 87. On every trade.
From the point where the sum is one you would hate to lose, the conversation moves from apps to hardware. A software wallet keeps the key on a phone with all of a phone's weaknesses; a hardware one keeps it in a separate chip that is never connected to the internet.
A wallet for EVM networks, known above all for its presentation: balances, history and digital collectibles read without effort, and on that front it is still one of the best. Since 2026 it has had its own token, RNBW, which returns part of the swap fee.
Not just the key-handling library but the whole app. Among wallets that is closer to an exception: most have a part of it open at best.
0.85% is an unpleasant number, but it is visible before you confirm. Wallets that "charge no fee" usually charge it through the rate, and that is harder to spot.
RNBW holders get back from a quarter to all of the fee — the threshold for a full return is 20,000 tokens. The mechanics are written in a contract, and we recompute them from the blockchain rather than retell them.
Twenty-four networks, all of them EVM. No bitcoin, no Solana, no Cosmos.
0.85% — the same as MetaMask's 0.875%, but three times more than the 0.25% at Rabby and Uniswap. For a wallet this is an ordinary rate; the question is how much you swap. Cashback offsets it only at a noticeable turnover, and the token itself has lost several times its value since the listing.
4,192 reviews against 198,872 for Trust Wallet — a factor of forty-seven. In a large product rare breakages are found and fixed faster, simply because more people report them.
The site's home page today carries leverage of up to 50×, prediction markets and real-time quotes rather than storage. A product that earns on turnover has an interest in you trading more often.
More on this: networks and features, the comparison with Trust Wallet, installing without picking up a fake.
The most widely used self-custody wallet on the list. More than a hundred networks, including bitcoin, Solana, Cosmos and Sui.
If your coins are a mixed bag, this is the simplest answer. Nobody else in the round-up has a hundred networks.
Two hundred thousand reviews stand for years of dealing with rare and unpleasant cases that younger products have not met yet.
There is no single declared figure. You end up paying through the rate, and it cannot be worked out beforehand.
The wallet-core library is open, but the wallet itself is not. Closed code cannot be checked — only believed.
A self-custody wallet from a listed exchange — not to be confused with an account on Coinbase itself, which is a different thing.
The tie to the exchange makes card top-ups and withdrawals the least troublesome in the round-up.
With published accounts and a regulator. For some people that weighs more than open code.
Two apps with almost the same name, and in one the keys are yours while in the other they are not. People mix them up regularly, and it is not a small thing.
4.55 across 161 thousand reviews — noticeably below its neighbours of the same size.
The de facto standard: almost every site in EVM networks is built with it in mind first.
If an application works with wallets at all, it works with MetaMask for certain.
Ledger and Trezor connect as standard — you can use the interface you are used to while the key stays in hardware.
0.875% on a swap, baked into the quote, on top of the pool's own fee. Formally the highest rate in this roundup, though it differs from Rainbow's 0.85% by hundredths of a point; against Rabby's 0.25% it is three and a half times more.
There are more fake extensions, sites and "support desks" aimed at MetaMask than at all the rest together. That is the price of popularity, and it is a real one.
It began as a wallet for Solana and remains the best one in that network, though it now understands Ethereum and bitcoin too.
If Solana is your main network, the conversation ends there.
One of the few teams that takes protection against malicious transactions seriously.
Support is there, but not to the same depth. It is rarely taken as a main wallet for Ethereum.
It sits in the swap rate, as with most of them.
A wallet for people who have been burned already. It shows exactly what will change in your balance before you sign.
Not "sign this message" but "this much will leave your address and this much will arrive". That is the best defence against signatures that empty a wallet — and far from everybody has it.
0.25% — three and a half times cheaper than MetaMask.
Across 1,271 reviews. The mobile app is noticeably behind the browser extension, and the reviews show it.
Everything that makes it good requires understanding what you are looking at. A newcomer will find it overloaded.
A wallet from the best-known decentralised exchange. Open code, a clean interface, a fee of 0.25%.
The exchange is its own; there are no intermediaries.
4.85 across nearly twenty thousand reviews — one of the best combinations on the list.
As an everyday wallet it is thinner: fewer networks, less of everything around them.
Its strength is the portfolio view: it shows everything you hold across all EVM networks, including positions in protocols that other wallets simply do not see.
If money is scattered across a dozen networks and protocols, this is the most honest answer to "how much do I have in total".
Twice as dear as Rabby and Uniswap.
No bitcoin.
One of the oldest on the list, known for being friendly to people arriving for the first time.
Plenty of networks, a decent desktop version, support that answers.
For a wallet that is a substantial concession: what it does with the key cannot be checked.
The fee is in the rate and, by numerous measurements, one of the more noticeable ones.
A different category. The key lives in a separate chip and never leaves it, while the phone serves only as a screen. They cost money and earn it back from exactly the sum you would hate to lose.
Plus: it supports almost everything and works with MetaMask. Minuses: in 2020 its customer database leaked, and device owners still receive targeted phishing; the key-backup feature announced in 2023 set off a long argument about how far the key really does stay on the device.
Plus: 4.89 — the highest rating among all twenty-six wallets we checked, across 24 thousand reviews. No battery, no cable, no screen. Minus: by default the protection rests on a set of cards rather than on a written-down phrase — lose all the cards and there is nothing left to restore from.
Plus: the device costs noticeably less than its competitors, and the app is rated 4.74. Minus: the ecosystem is tied to its own token and exchange services, and the product pulls you towards them.
Trust Wallet, Phantom or a hardware wallet. The EVM wallets drop out straight away.
Rabby or Uniswap — 0.25% against MetaMask's 0.875%.
Rainbow, and then it is worth working out whether cashback pays for its 0.85%. That comes down to plain arithmetic.
Hardware. Any of the three beats any app, and the difference between them is smaller than the difference between hardware and a phone.
Take any of the large ones and put five dollars into it. Learn to send and receive; choosing the "right" one can wait a month, until you know what you need.
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Binance, Bybit and the like are not wallets: the keys there are not yours. That is a separate conversation with separate risks.
We do not hand wallets marks for security. A figure like that looks like a measurement while in fact being the opinion of whoever invented the scale.
Every wallet has store reviews about money that disappeared. They cannot be confirmed from outside, and in the overwhelming majority of cases the cause is a leaked secret phrase rather than the wallet. We will not publish that as fact.