MAGIC Grants Releases Monero Light-Wallet App for Android

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MAGIC Grants announced today the release of their new, open-source Skylight Wallet app for Android, which will also be "available soon" for iOS and Desktop. Skylight Wallet is a Monero wallet which uses a Monero Light-Wallet Server (LWS) to detect your transactions, as opposed to traditional Monero wallets which require a lengthy synchronization period to scan the Monero blockchain to find your private transactions before you can use them.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/24/magic-grants-releases-monero-light-wallet-app-for-android
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To be honest, the number of times I have had to restore a wallet in Cake Wallet, only to have to leave the app open on my phone for hours or longer where I can’t do anything else or turn my phone off (poor/no background sync capabilities apparently) means I will for sure be using this when their iOS app is released :laughing:

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Should I consider this post as promotional material, a recommendation, or just news?

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I mean, it’s news and a FYI. But anyone can consider it anything. But since this is not officially listed in the recommendations section yet, I would simply consider this news.

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Its just a bit odd considering MAGIC Grants and PGs relationship. Just wanted a clarification, that’s all. No harm meant :slight_smile:

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No worries, sorry for coming off passive aggressive.

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Since that is what this wallet requires you to do that is what I mean :slight_smile:

That is clarified in the article above.

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Sorry my old eyes missed the little text. I could of sworn that show full post button wasn’t there but maybe I am going crazy faster then i thought… :sweat_smile:

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Skylight Wallet 1.0.4 is now available for Android and Linux!

As a reminder, Skylight Wallet is a self-custody and open-source light wallet by MAGIC Grants. It outsources the wallet scanning to a light wallet server (LWS) that you run yourself.

This means instant syncing across all devices. But you need to run your own server at home.

Release 1.0.4 now includes:

  • Tor settings. You can now configure Skylight Wallet to use external Tor or no Tor. The built-in, automatic Tor option remains the default.
  • LWS settings. You can now change your LWS in settings.
  • Auditable builds. Builds are now automatically done with GitHub Actions. Although the full dependency supply chain isn’t reproducible, all the code related to Skylight Wallet is!
  • iOS builds. Once approved by the App Store, Skylight Wallet will be available there as well! We will make another announcement when that happens.

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I heard you can get around this by sending all your funds to your own wallet address, then sync from that block height from that time forth.

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Yeah, but I can’t send my funds until the initial sync is completed. Unless I already had the wallet synced on a different machine?

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Tbh i think this should have been placed in product showcase @jonah this is hardly news.

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You’re in luck! Skylight Wallet is finally available on the App Store:

This makes Skylight Wallet available on nearly all desktop and mobile platforms.

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How does this affect privacy?

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You need to trust the Monero LWS server with your privacy so ideally you would run your own.

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Better to just use non-lightweight wallets listed at getmonero.org

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It’s so annoying to use something like Cake Wallet on mobile devices though, since it has to sync the whole Monero blockchain which takes forever, and background tasks being constantly closed on mobile operating systems means it’s very unreliable unless you keep the wallet open in the foreground, meaning you basically can’t use your device.

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I have found running my own node has made the sync speed surprisingly really good.

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Interesting, I haven’t had that experience, although my own node was still on a different network. Maybe if it was on my LAN it would be better.