Wallets Recovery

Giving users their seed phrase is not enough.

Wallets Recovery is a static compatibility guide for Bitcoin wallet recovery. It tracks wallet defaults, derivation paths, BIP39/passphrase behavior, output descriptor support, PSBT support, and links to external recovery documentation.

Live site: https://walletsrecovery.org/

Source of truth

Wallet data lives in walletsrecovery.json. The website renders the tables from that JSON at runtime.

Avoid duplicating the wallet tables in this README. Duplicates get stale quickly; update the JSON instead.

What the status icons mean

The current icon legend is maintained in walletsrecovery.json under icons and rendered on the site. In short:

• ✅ documented recovery information
• ⚠️ known but weak/unofficial recovery documentation
• ☠️ unavailable, proprietary, or too complex for average external recovery
• 😵 discontinued / no longer maintained
• 👁 privacy concern
• ⑂ validation concern
• 🚸 physical hardware risk without passphrase/multisig
• ⛔️ Lightning/channel-state caveat
• 🧐 newer team/product with less than five years of public history

Editing wallet data

Each wallet entry includes:

• status — string of status icons
• name and url
• derivation — booleans for common paths (bip44, bip49, bip84, bip48, bip86, brd) plus optional custom
• output_descriptor
• bip39_pass / passphrase
• wif_support where applicable
• bip174_psbt
• notes — structured links and explanatory text
• optional availability and last_verified

When updating wallet data, prefer current primary sources: official product pages, official docs, project repositories, or maintainer announcements.

Develop locally

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages and can be served as static files.

python3 -m http.server 8002
# open http://localhost:8002

Or use the helper:

./serve.sh

Validate changes

python3 -m json.tool walletsrecovery.json >/dev/null
node --check scripts.js
python3 tools/link_check.py --allow-blocked

tools/link_check.py checks local HTML/Markdown/JSON/JS/CSS links and treats confirmed 4xx/5xx responses as failures. Bot-blocked responses such as 401/403/429 are warnings when --allow-blocked is used.

Contributing

Open a pull request against https://github.com/nvk/walletsrecovery.org. Include source links for any wallet behavior or availability change.