🌙 Muun review: security, features and score
71/100SCORE · BTrustedSelf custody, seed phrase
Grade B, very good
Someone who wants Bitcoin and Lightning to just work with no channel management.
The facts
- DEVELOPER
- Muun
- LAUNCHED
- 2018
- TYPE
- Mobile
- CUSTODY MODEL
- Self custody, seed phrase
- KEY MODEL
- A two key scheme with an emergency kit rather than a plain seed phrase
- CHAINS
- Bitcoin and Lightning
- PLATFORMS
- iOS, Android
- OPEN SOURCE
- Full
- AUDITS
- Open source, audited
- HARDWARE SUPPORT
- None
- SWAP COST
- None built in.
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
- Lightning with no channel management at all
- Very simple
- Open source and audited
- Self custody throughout
✗ Weaknesses
- Recovery is an emergency kit, not a standard seed phrase
- Bitcoin only
- No hardware wallet support
Incident history
No security breach or significant incident on record.
Export and store the emergency kit properly. It is not a 12 word phrase and you cannot recreate it from memory.
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
77/100
Praised for hiding Lightning complexity entirely. Criticised because the recovery model is not a standard seed phrase, so you cannot import it elsewhere in the usual way.
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Star ratings change constantly, so we link to the sources rather than printing a number that is out of date the day after it is written.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.