Comparison of AirGap Vault with other Hardware Wallets

This page shows a comparison between AirGap Vault and popular hardware wallets. We created the comparison to the best of our knowledge. If any features are missing or some information is wrong, please reach out to us.

Table

✅ - Supported

❌ - Not Supported

🧩 - Partially Supported

⚙️ - In development

❔ - Unsure

Security

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Completely air-gapped	✅	✅	❌ 1	✅	❌	❌
Secure chip	✅ 2	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Runs on any device	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Entropy with dice rolls	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Entropy with coin flips	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Social Recovery / Shamir	✅ 3	✅ 4	❌	❌	❌	✅ 5
SSKR	⚙️	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Seed XOR	⚙️	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Duress Pin	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Brick Me Pin	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Countdown Login	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Countdown To Brick	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
Anti-Phishing Words	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
External Security Audit	✅ 6	✅ 7	?	?	?	?
Anti-Klepto Protection	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌

Features

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Multiple Mnemonics	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
BIP39 Passphrase	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅ 8
BIP85	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
BIP39 Wordlist	✅ 9	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Encrypted Backup	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌

Privacy

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
No KYC required to use	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Purchase Anonymously	✅ 10	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

Bitcoin

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
BTC Only Version	❌	✅ 11	✅	✅	❌	❌
BTC Segwit	✅	✅ 12	✅	✅	✅	✅
BTC Taproot	✅ 13	⚙️	⚙️	⚙️	✅ 14	✅ 15
BTC Multisig	⚙️	✅ 16	✅ 17	✅ 18	✅	✅
PSBT	✅	✅	?	✅	?	?
Sparrow Wallet	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
BlueWallet	✅	✅	?	✅	?	?

Ethereum

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
MetaMask	✅ 19	✅ 20	❌	❌	✅	✅
Show Contract Call Details	🧩	✅	?	❌	?	?

Polkadot

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Polkadot.js support	❌	✅	❌	❌	?	?

Tezos

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Show Contract Call Details	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Shielded / Sapling Transactions	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

Altcoins

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Number of Altcoins	ETH, DOT, KSM, ATOM, XTZ, MOVR, GLMR, AE, GRS, ICP, OP, CORE, ASTR, SDN	ETH, XRP, DOT, BCH, LTC, KSM, TRX, DASH 21	ETH, LTC, ADA 22	❌	Many 23	Many 24

Usability

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Large Screen	✅	✅	❌	🧩	❌	❌
Communication to companion app	QR	QR, Micro SD	USB	Micro SD, USB	USB, Bluethooth	USB
Time To Set Up	?	?	?	?	?	?
Time To Import	?	?	?	?	?	?
Time To Sign	?	?	?	?	?	?

Device

	AirGap Vault	Keystone	BitBox02	ColdCard	Ledger	Trezor
Open Source	✅ 25	✅ 26	✅ 27	✅ 28	✅ 29	✅ 30
Reproducible	✅ 31	❌ 32	✅ 33	❌ 34	❌ 35	✅ 36
Made In	🇨🇭 Switzerland	🇨🇳 China	🇨🇭 Switzerland	🇨🇦 Canada	🇫🇷 France	🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Release Date	2018	2018	2016	2018	2014	2014
Business Model	Funding through integrations Donations	Device sales	Device sales	Device sales	Device sales	Device sales
Cost	$0 37	$119 - $479 38	$119 39	$129 40	$69 - $179 41	$60 - $199 42

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Footnotes

¹ https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/does-airgap-make-bitcoin-hardware-wallets-more-secure/
² Depends on the device. Modern mobile phones all have secure elements.
³ Currently not using a standard, will be replaced by SSKR
⁴ SLIP39
⁵ SLIP39
⁶ https://github.com/airgap-it/airgap-coin-lib/tree/master/docs/audits
⁷ https://github.com/KeystoneHQ/Keystone-developer-hub/tree/main/audit-report
⁸ Passphrase has to be entered on online device
⁹ Only English
¹⁰ Use any device, no need to sign up to receive a device.
¹¹ https://blog.keyst.one/the-relevance-benefits-of-keystones-btc-only-firmware-8965ebb42e48
¹² BTC-only firmware required
¹³ https://github.com/airgap-it/airgap-vault/issues/106
¹⁴ https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410908103185-Creating-a-Bitcoin-Taproot-account-in-Ledger-Live?docs=true
¹⁵ https://wiki.trezor.io/Taproot
¹⁶ https://support.keyst.one/3rd-party-wallets/bitcoin-wallets/electrum/electrum-2-3-psbt-multi-signature
¹⁷ https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/bitbox02-electrum-bitcoin-multisig/
¹⁸ https://coldcard.com/docs/multisig
¹⁹ https://support.airgap.it/guides/metamask
²⁰ https://support.keyst.one/3rd-party-wallets/eth-and-web3-wallets-keystone/bind-metamask-with-keystone
²¹ https://support.keyst.one/
²² https://shiftcrypto.ch/coins/
²³ https://www.ledger.com/supported-crypto-assets
²⁴ https://trezor.io/coins/
²⁵ https://github.com/airgap-it/airgap-vault
²⁶ https://github.com/KeystoneHQ
²⁷ https://github.com/digitalbitbox
²⁸ https://github.com/Coldcard
²⁹ https://github.com/LedgerHQ
³⁰ https://github.com/trezor
³¹ https://walletscrutiny.com/android/it.airgap.vault/
³² https://walletscrutiny.com/hardware/cobovaultessential/
³³ https://walletscrutiny.com/hardware/bitBox2/
³⁴ https://walletscrutiny.com/hardware/coldcardMk3/
³⁵ https://walletscrutiny.com/hardware/ledgerNanoX/
³⁶ https://walletscrutiny.com/hardware/trezorOne/
³⁷ Requires an old device
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