Cake Wallet is a non-custodial mobile wallet supporting Monero, Bitcoin, and several other coins. Your keys are generated and stored on your device only. Monero transaction scanning happens locally so your view key is never sent to an external server, and the full source code is publicly auditable on GitHub. Desktop builds for macOS and Linux are also available.
Cake Wallet
cakewallet.com
Our take
Self-custody is the foundation here: Cake Wallet holds nothing on your behalf, and the local-scanning approach for Monero is a concrete privacy improvement over wallets that offload that work to a remote server. The codebase is open source under cake-tech/cake_wallet, so the non-custodial claims are verifiable rather than just asserted. The tradeoff is that managing your own keys means losing access if you lose your seed phrase, with no recovery option. Worth the tradeoff for anyone who prioritizes holding their own keys over the convenience of a custodial service.
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cake-tech/cake_wallet
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Cake Wallet license, in plain English
MIT Permissive
Do almost anything: use, change, and ship it, even inside closed-source products. The only condition is keeping the copyright notice.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Private use
Requires
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Permissive licensing lets anyone reuse this, including inside closed products. That is freedom to build on, but no guarantee that downstream copies stay open.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.