Sentinel
Wallets
Sentinel is a free, open-source watch-only Bitcoin wallet for Android developed by the Samourai Wallet team. It connects to a personal Dojo full node or a public node to monitor Bitcoin balances and transactions without exposing private keys. Unlike hot wallets, Sentinel holds no private keys on the device — it is purely for monitoring cold storage and hardware wallet addresses.
Details
- Note
- Developed by Samourai Wallet team; app availability may be affected by the April 2024 Samourai arrests
- Type
- Mobile watch-only wallet (Android)
- Github
- https://github.com/Samourai-Wallet/sentinel-android
- Platform
- Android
- Custodial
- No
- Lightning
- No
- Platforms
- android
- Watch Only
- Yes
- Open Source
- Yes
- Bitcoin Only
- Yes
- Coin Control
- No
- Founded Year
- 2016
- Node Support
- Personal Dojo or Electrum server
- Segwit Support
- Yes
- Taproot Support
- Yes
- Multisig Support
- Yes
- Lightning Support
- No
- Hardware Wallet Support
- No
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