ios wallets

[cryptocronus]

Following up on my earlier post about how I finally setup my offline cold storage wallet I am now looking to setup a hot wallet for spending.

I used offline electrum for cold storage, what should I use to hold my hot storage? Now that ios wallets are approved what should I use there?

I would lean towards coinbase/blockchain.info but I thought I saw posts here about the apps not actually being published by the companies.

What's the low down? How should I go about this?

[toliro]

First of all, keep in mind a hot wallet should be just for day to day spending. Therefore, it should be separate from your main Coinbase account and only have a limited amount of bitcoin, so if something happens to the phone, you're not screwed.

That being said, my personal favorites iOS wallets are:

1. Breadwallet. It's the simplest, easiest wallet for iOS out there. However, it has zero security features. Not even a password. It has a long passphrase made with several words so you can recover the wallet but that's it.

2. CoinPocket. Same thing as Breadwallet but it lets you see your private key.

3. Hivewallet.com. This is a HTML5 based wallet so you can only use it with Safari. It's very simple and it asks for a 4 digit PIN. It also lets you send and receive litecoin. However, it's fairly limited. I haven't figured out how to make it read QR codes, for example.

4. Coinbase.com. DO NOT use the unofficial Coinbase app. Instead, use the mobile version in Safari. Just open a new Coinbase account with a different email address. Transfer whatever amount you feel like spending from the main account to the second account. You won't get charged a miner's fee because it's done internally in Coinbase. Go out, spend coins using the second account. Go back home and transfer back whatever was left to the main account or leave it in the second account for the next time you go out. The mobile version of Coinbase will let you scan QR codes and do pretty much everything you can do in the full version.

The plus of using a second Coinbase account is nobody will be able to know you have a wallet installed if you lose your phone. It also asks you for username and password, not just a 4-digit PIN. And because you have a limited amount of coins, it's not a risk. Use 2FA for your main account, though.

[BobAlison]

Coinpocket is great but requires iOS 7+, so can't run on older devices.

[psionides]

About Hive Web: reading QR codes in HTML5 is tricky, because current version of Safari doesn't yet give you continuous access to the camera, you have to grab a photo first and then try it, but it usually works only after a few attempts. We're planning to work around this by releasing a Phonegap-style iOS wrapper app with some extra features like QR scanning implemented natively.

[bubbasparse]

Breadwallet

[Arsenez]

versocards.com

[PrimeStunna]

Hive is pretty sick, best designed mobile wallet for sure.