🐦 Sparrow review: security, features and score
68/100SCORE · CTrustedSelf custody, seed phrase
Grade C, fair
Serious Bitcoin custody, multisig setups, and running against your own node.
The facts
- DEVELOPER
- Craig Raw
- LAUNCHED
- 2020
- TYPE
- Desktop
- CUSTODY MODEL
- Self custody, seed phrase
- KEY MODEL
- Seed phrase, multisig, or hardware. Connects to your own node.
- CHAINS
- Bitcoin only
- PLATFORMS
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- OPEN SOURCE
- Full
- AUDITS
- Open source, heavily reviewed by the Bitcoin community
- HARDWARE SUPPORT
- Every major device
- SWAP COST
- None. It has no swap.
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
- The most transparent Bitcoin wallet there is: full control of coins, fees and privacy
- Connects to your own node rather than someone else's server
- Supports every hardware wallet and multisig
- Coin control and full transaction detail
✗ Weaknesses
- Bitcoin only
- Desktop only
- Genuinely difficult for a beginner
Incident history
No security breach or significant incident on record.
Sparrow shows you everything, including things you can get wrong. Practise on testnet before moving real money.
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
92/100
The highest regard of any wallet in this directory among people who take Bitcoin custody seriously. Not remotely beginner friendly, and entirely unapologetic about that.
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Star ratings change constantly, so we link to the sources rather than printing a number that is out of date the day after it is written.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.