Phoenix Wallet

Name: Phoenix Wallet
Rating: 4.2 (70 reviews)
Author: ACINQ

Bitcoin wallet from the future

Free · Designed for iPad

70 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Finance
Developer

ACINQ
Language

EN
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Size

64.8
MB

Phoenix makes using bitcoin easy, fast and safe. Payments are nearly instantaneous, and fees are minimal. You can use it to send payments (e.g. buy a cup of coffee), receive payments, and store your bitcoin safely for day-to-day spending. The bitcoin lightning network means faster payments and smaller fees. Lightning is 100% bitcoin - an open standardized payments layer, engineered to improve speed while maintaining security and decentralization. And Phoenix makes it possible for everyone to use. Lightning channels are managed for you automatically. And inbound liquidity is automatically handled too. If you don't know what any of that means, then this is the wallet for you! Phoenix is a non-custodial wallet, and is fully open source. It was created by ACINQ, one of the pioneering companies in the bitcoin lightning network. And the same company that runs the largest lightning node in the world. Bitcoin is for everyone. Enjoy.

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

70 Ratings

Expensive ⚡️ but great
09/10/2025

nednarB93
Do your homework before you use this app. Most of the bad reviews are from cranked users that don’t understand lightning channels, or how Phoenix works. Read their docs on their website. 0.4% on lightning is STEEP, but they gotta fund their business, so take it or leave it 🤷‍♂️
Expensive ⚡️ but great
09/10/2025

nednarB93

Do your homework before you use this app. Most of the bad reviews are from cranked users that don’t understand lightning channels, or how Phoenix works. Read their docs on their website. 0.4% on lightning is STEEP, but they gotta fund their business, so take it or leave it 🤷‍♂️
Still quite a few growing pains
07/12/2023

Casey_Jay
I have heard many good things about this app and wanted to try it for myself.Although I am familiar with the technology I am still learning.There were a few large problems which prevented me from giving it a higher star review.Namely the channel management, opening and closing, and all that good stuff is not exactly clear.For instance I sent myself 2 payments over the lightning network and the total balance was nowhere near what I had calculated.It should have been 150,000 sats and it only displayed 130,000.The app did not tell you where the rest of it was. You kind of had to figure it out for yourself and look around the back end and do some weird channel math. Totally not going to fly if you are on boarding people.Next, I know it's self custodial and all that but the fees are way higher than I was anticipating. Like 0.5% + 3000 sats for each LN payment. That's higher than on chain!! That's not a good deal. If you send your money back-and-forth 40 times you have no more money left. It's kind of like Visa.For what it is worth I still give it three stars because at least I can actually send and receive. Quite a few of the other well positioned in the market lightning apps can't even do that. One of them rhymes with the word moon.Still very optimistic and hopeful for the technology. I'll try it again in a few months and update this if anything changes.
Still quite a few growing pains
07/12/2023

Casey_Jay

I have heard many good things about this app and wanted to try it for myself.Although I am familiar with the technology I am still learning.There were a few large problems which prevented me from giving it a higher star review.Namely the channel management, opening and closing, and all that good stuff is not exactly clear.For instance I sent myself 2 payments over the lightning network and the total balance was nowhere near what I had calculated.It should have been 150,000 sats and it only displayed 130,000.The app did not tell you where the rest of it was. You kind of had to figure it out for yourself and look around the back end and do some weird channel math. Totally not going to fly if you are on boarding people.Next, I know it's self custodial and all that but the fees are way higher than I was anticipating. Like 0.5% + 3000 sats for each LN payment. That's higher than on chain!! That's not a good deal. If you send your money back-and-forth 40 times you have no more money left. It's kind of like Visa.For what it is worth I still give it three stars because at least I can actually send and receive. Quite a few of the other well positioned in the market lightning apps can't even do that. One of them rhymes with the word moon.Still very optimistic and hopeful for the technology. I'll try it again in a few months and update this if anything changes.
Terrific. In addition to Zeus on CLN/LND I use Phoenix
02/25/2023

ScottK83
I run my own CLN and LND nodes that I access through Zeus. But, I also like to have a “hot” Lightning wallet easily available too for times when the Tor network that I use to access my own node is slow or being picky.Phoenix is awesome. It opens up channels for you automatically as needed. It can even accept on chain BTC and converts it to be available on Lightning and allows swaps out back to on chain with the cost just being the miner fee. Very slick!I’ve moved my go to Lightning wallet from Muun to Phoenix for these reasons.
Terrific. In addition to Zeus on CLN/LND I use Phoenix
02/25/2023

ScottK83

I run my own CLN and LND nodes that I access through Zeus. But, I also like to have a “hot” Lightning wallet easily available too for times when the Tor network that I use to access my own node is slow or being picky.Phoenix is awesome. It opens up channels for you automatically as needed. It can even accept on chain BTC and converts it to be available on Lightning and allows swaps out back to on chain with the cost just being the miner fee. Very slick!I’ve moved my go to Lightning wallet from Muun to Phoenix for these reasons.
The best hands down
12/30/2025

Keywest btc
This is the best mobile lightning wallet available hands down.
The best hands down
12/30/2025

Keywest btc

This is the best mobile lightning wallet available hands down.

- Fixed a concurrency issue causing background payments to get stuck or be rejected.

Version 2.7.3

11/05/2025

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