UPDATE: This post is outdated. On the forum you can find much better reviews of wallets now, like @NogueiraLuisa 's posts about Stellar Desktop Client & Stargazer , Stellarterm & Ecliptic or Centaurus . To see all available wallets visits this page . Introduction A Stellar wallet is an application that allows you to send and receive different currencies/assets on the Stellar network. If you come from Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency you may already be familiar with wallets. Usually cryptocurrencies differentiate between wallets that are full nodes or thin clients (SPV) . There is no need to have a full node as your wallet. Reason for bundling everything together are mostly historic. The first Bitcoin implementation was a full node, wallet and miner in one. Stellar started from scratch and used a much better separation of concerns. All Stellar wallets are lightweight applications and don't need to download the full ledger history. Here is an overview of the most popular Stellar wallets. Stellar.org account viewer The minimal data that represents an account is a public/secret keypair. You can generate a new keypair on this site: https://www.stellar.org/laboratory/#account-creator?network=public It is important to safely store and never let anyone get access to your secret key. Or she/he will have complete control over your assets in this account. If you lose access to your private key you will also lose access to all assets that this account is holding. Now you can use Stellar.org's account viewer to see your account balance and send Lumens: https://www.stellar.org/account-viewer/ The account viewer is a simple application that gives you only a minimalistic interface without much functionality. You are left on your own to secure your account's secret key. Another drawback of the account viewer is that you can only send Lumens (XLM) and no other assets. Centaurus Android wallet Centaurus Android wallet is more feature rich. You can get it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.xcoins.centaurus It will automatically create an account for you and keep the secret key stored in your phone. You should export the secret key and store it in a secure location in case you lose access to your phone. While using the wallet I noticed some small bugs, like the camera view for scanning QR codes is stretched vertically on my Galaxy S6 and it's hard to get the QR code to be recognised. The description of the application also says: Don't hold more Lumens in this app than you need for every day purpose and you can afford to lose in worst case! Use at own Risk. During my usage I never noticed major issues in the Centaurus wallet. Scotty's Wallet Another web based wallet is Scotty's wallet: https://sacarlson.github.io/my_wallet/ It is the most feature rich wallet exposing almost all options of the Stellar platform. It allows you to hold multiple assets, place orders on Stellar's distributed exchange and perform many other actions. This makes it also the hardest to use. Notice that the wallet points to the test network when you first navigate to the website. If you want to use the live network you need to go to Advanced => Change Settings and set it to live network. I noticed some small issues while using it. Like the export QR code for Centaurus not being accepted by Centaurus, but most of the core functions work as expected. Lobstr iOS and Android wallet The Lobstr wallet has a really nice design. You can get it here: https://lobstr.co/ I had it previously installed on my phone, but didn't use it. After I sent some Lumens to the wallet the transaction didn't show up in the view, but the account balance showed that the Lumens arrived. Then I tried to send some Lumens but it asked for a password that I couldn't remember. I went to their website and reset the password. And I lost access to all the Lumens I had inside. It looks like it removed the secret key from the wallet when I reset the password. This was not clear during the whole process and looks like a really dangerous behaviour from the wallet. It still lets me receive Lumens, even the wallet doesn't have the secret key and I will not be able to get the Lumens out. Something like this should not be allowed. The interface should clearly state that the wallet is not holding anymore the secret key and not only prompt you to enter one when you decide to send Lumens away. I would not recommend anyone to use it for serious amounts of Lumens. UPDATE: See pitsevich response below.

Cold is my weekend project. Helpful for generating cold wallet transactions offline.

Very nice. I wasnt't aware of Scotty's wallet.

Hi, Bernard. I am Gleb, one of the founders of the lobstr.co First of all, I'm terribly sorry to hear about your troubles while using our wallet. Our team is looking into the issue which you've described in your review of the stellar wallets, and we will definitely take some actions to notify users more clearly about the consequences of resetting password and actions needed to ensure safety more clearly. Let me clarify: We don't have access to your secret key - it is securely stored inside our platform encrypted. Your password is taking part in the process of encryption/decryption of your secret key. (Obviously, we don't store passwords in raw format as well.) We've implemented the logic that allow users to restore their secret keys in case of password loss, using a special passphrase, which is called "Recovery Code". During the registration process, the system shows a message, asking to securely store the recovery code on your side, as it can be used to restore access to your secret key in case of lost password. Here is the screenshot of this prompt: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qbt7sy67kimj7js/Screenshot%202016-07-06%2016.26.48.png?dl=0 Lobstr allows you to easily email it to your inbox. Our records show, that you haven't requested Lobstr to email the secret key, and you probably haven't wrote it down manually. During "Reset Password" you can see the option to enter recovery code - it will allow you to get access to your secret key and completely restore your existing account. Please, see the screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n4bdl0guxjljdpm/2016-07-05%2021-40-35.png?dl=0 We see recovery code as a helper tool, for the rare cases when user forgets his password. Of course, since we are talking about money and their safety, users have to be careful with storing passwords and credentials. It never hurts to manually securely save the secret code and account address if you plan to store funds in cryptocurrency wallet. We will review the flow and will try to emphasize importance of security measures. We will be happy if you'll give https://lobstr.co/ another try at some point later. Thank you for the feedback, Lobstr team.

Hi Gleb, I updated the text to point to your response. Maybe just make the message more explicit that without the Recovery Code you will loose access to the account after the password reset. I just created a new account and the prompt to save the recovery code is well written and clear. The problem is when you can't log in to your account, you may do the password reset in a hurry and not pay attention or remember that you actually saved a recovery code when opening the account few months ago. I think I printed the recovery code out now that you mention it. I will check my papers when I get home. Lobstr looks really nice, I like the design. I also noticed that the last 2-3 transactions don't show up in my history. Is this related to not having a secret key anymore attached to the account?

I can't recover my Stellar wallet's username and password by my email and recovery code. What should I do?

stellaruser What wallet are you using? Do you get any error message? Where does the recovery process fail?

bartek How do you mean offline? Can you please describe?

chainhead sure. You can create and sign a transaction on the offline machine (it also works on Raspberry Pi with no hardware network interface) and then transfer the transaction blob to online machine to submit it to the network.

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Binchentso

bkolobara thanks. Will definitely try it out. Just wanted to give lobstr a shot and sadly it has this problem that i can login but not setup a wallet. Will report on my steps. Thanks.

TitoOuassim

I have just sent an amount of xml from my portfolio of stellar startgazer 30 minutes ago to bittrex, and I have not received anything yet
i completed also the tag as message but nothin , i have sent a ticket to support

dzham

TitoOuassim take your address and go to stellarchain.io, and paste it into the search field in the upper right corner. Find the transaction, click it to open, and send the url to that page to bittrex so they know what transaction it is.

EmmanuelEyssautier

dzham Hello, could you please indicate me how to find a transaction 44 days ago. This is what took Bittrex to get back to me and ask me for the TxID of a transaction sent from Stargazer wallet. Thank you

NogueiraLuisa

I wrote an updated post with reviews about some wallets. Just talked about the web wallets Ecliptic and Stellar Term and during this week I'll write more reviews about other wallets.

Cheers!

bkolobara

NogueiraLuisa thank you for writing all this reviews. I have linked to some of them in the first post, as it's the first result now on google for the search "stellar wallets".

kevin

bkolobara same here at stargazer wallet unable to send lumens out to bittrex but can receive i have install and tried both in windows and android adding memo and leaving 20 coins behind

bkolobara

kevin ~~It looks to be a temporarily issue with Stargazer. It's also not working for me.~~ I notified @dzham on slack, he is looking into it.

EDIT: My issue was different, related to merging a Stargazer account outside Stargazer and actually having 0 balance.

kevin

bkolobara can you help me with a solution to get my coins out to bittrex below provided by bittrex

Memo 80f649fbde78425c973

Address
GB6YPGW5JFMMP2QB2USQ33EUWTXVL4ZT5ITUNCY3YKVWOJPP57CANOF3

i can click the send button but nothing happen all address , memo and 20 coins balanced done

bkolobara

kevin Could you clarify "but nothing happen all address , memo and 20 coins balanced done". I'm not sure I understood it. Do the Lumens leave your account, but don't arrive on Bittrex? Or does the action no complete? Is an error maybe displayed?

dzham

kevin Did you set memo-type to Text?

joneser3

kevin hey buddy, I accidentally sent you 9979 lumens today, would you mind sending them back to me please? Transaction Hash b31a783f5f180b96b1c128bedb8f3bbbd6d8ef2457d6792d1bbba5e92665e962

Kai

helllo
i don't see my secretkey and my publick key
help me

bkolobara

Kai First of all. Where are you looking?

SeanLee

pitsevich bkolobara

Hey! I'm in a situation where I did not save the secret key because Lobstr never indicated it was critical, but saved the 10 recovery phrase. How do I go about getting my secret key to my wallet? I used the recovery phrase and it seems to only reset my password of the account, has nothing to do with the wallet. Per Gleb, he indicated there's a way to recover your secret key using the recovery phrases, but as of now Lobstr.co doesn't have that functionality.

Thank you for any insights you have.

pitsevich

SeanLee Hey!

Sean, sorry for delay with response.
We will be rolling out a special "Recovery" tool which will make the process as easy as possible.

The tool will be live in about a week - before Feb'18.
I thought (if it's okay with you, of course) that maybe we could resolve your problem using the new tool, as it will give us a good chance to get some feedback from you.

Just make sure you have the recovery code and know the Stellar account address of your account (federated or just public key).

Let me know.

Best,
Gleb

pitsevich

SeanLee baz

We have released a special recovery tool for Lobstr wallets, which should help you restore your secret keys with recovery code: https://recovery.lobstr.co/

Looooooka The answer is yes!

In case of any questions/issues, please email us at support[at]lobstr.co or open the ticket through web or mobile application.

Looooooka

pitsevich

pitsevich a quick question about the recovery code.
I had it mailed to myself but after that I didn't really like that because that in itself was insecure.
So I removed my wallet and re-added it. Which worked and I was presented with a new recovery password.
I chose not to mail it to myself because hell...peace of mind.
Now for the question.
When I removed the wallet before re-adding it...did that delete everything that the first recovery code could recover.
To put it simply will recovery using the first recovery code fail and only work with the second one.
I hope the answer is yes

baz

pitsevich Hi Gleb, I'm a noobi and set up my Lobstr wallet a week or so ago. Sent stellar across no problem.
Now I can't access my wallet, I've updated the password three times as well as entering the Recovery code, no luck.
Sent off message to the support email, which was pure guess work because it's not on the website, I did receive a ticket number which is a start.
Any chance you could look into a solution for me please.

nacho

My thoughts on the Stellar Wallet Landscape: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7tksia/stellar_has_an_big_imageusability_problem_that/

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