🛡 Guarda review: security, features and score
65/100SCORE · CMixed recordSelf custody, seed phrase
Grade C, fair
Holding an obscure asset that nothing else supports.
The facts
- DEVELOPER
- Guarda
- LAUNCHED
- 2017
- TYPE
- Web, desktop and mobile
- CUSTODY MODEL
- Self custody, seed phrase
- KEY MODEL
- Encrypted backup file plus password, which is unusual and trips people up
- CHAINS
- Bitcoin, Ethereum and 400 plus assets
- PLATFORMS
- Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome
- OPEN SOURCE
- Partial
- AUDITS
- Limited public audit disclosure
- HARDWARE SUPPORT
- Ledger
- SWAP COST
- Built in exchange with a spread.
What it can do
How the score breaks down
Each dimension is explained on the methodology page.
Where it is strong and where it is not
✓ Strengths
- Supports assets nothing else does
- Runs everywhere including the browser
- Long established
✗ Weaknesses
- A browser based wallet is a larger attack surface
- Backup file plus password rather than a standard seed
- Limited audit transparency
Incident history
No security breach or significant incident on record.
Guarda backs up to an encrypted file, not a standard 12 word phrase. Lose the file or the password and there is no recovery.
Reputation and reviews
A reputation score out of 100, kept separate from the feature score above. It reflects what users actually report over time rather than a star rating scraped on one day.
REPUTATION
58/100
Long running with a broad asset list. The web wallet option worries security minded users, and the backup model is different enough from a standard seed phrase to cause avoidable losses.
Check current reviews yourself
Star ratings change constantly, so we link to the sources rather than printing a number that is out of date the day after it is written.
If something goes wrong
COMMON FIXES
Transaction stuck pendingYour transaction has sat as Pending for minutes or hours and nothing is moving.Transaction failed but the gas was still takenThe transaction reverted, you got nothing, and the fee left your wallet anyway.Token is not showing in my walletThe block explorer shows the tokens arrived, but the wallet shows nothing.I sent tokens to the wrong networkYou withdrew to your address but picked the wrong chain, and the balance is not where you expected.
RISK WARNING
Crypto assets are highly volatile and largely unregulated. You can lose everything you put in.
Nothing on this page is financial, investment or tax advice, and nothing here is a recommendation
to buy or sell any asset. Do your own research and never commit money you cannot afford to lose.