Apps relative to crypto are very recent and now common on the AppStore.
We wanted to study those Apps to make an smart article about technical stacks & good practices.

What are the good things?

What are the bad things in those about?

What are the important points if you want to start to build a new App?

To study those questions we have decided to take the most trendy applications and to compare them on technical aspects :

App name BundleID version
MetaMask - Blockchain Wallet ee.mtakso.client 65.1
FTX (Blockfolio) com.blockfolio.blockfolio 4.10.5
CoinMarketCap com.coinmarketcap.CoinMarketCap 4.2.0
Coinbase: Buy Bitcoin & Ether com.vilcsak.bitcoin2 10.29.4
Crypto.com - Buy Bitcoin, ETH co.mona.Monaco 3.143
Binance: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto com.czzhao.binance 2.50.0
ZenGo: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet kzencorp.mobile.ios 4.1.2
eToro Money com.etoro.wallet 48.0.0

This article is the one a serie :

TLDR;

  • There is native Apps and Apps developed using a cross plateform solutions.
  • All Apps can provide a very rich User Experience and extends the system using App Extensions or interact with other Apps to improve the journey of a User.
  • The applications are characterized by the number of interactions with the system and the possible interactions with other Apps.
  • The packaging is really different depending on the technology of the application and this leads to resources not optimized and some security weaknesses.

AppScores

AppScore give an objective & synthetic vision of any Apps, just by focusing on quality criteria.
If you want to get more details about AppScore computation

App AppScore
CoinMarketCap 4.74
MetaMask - Blockchain Wallet 4.67
FTX (Blockfolio) 4.67
Coinbase: Buy Bitcoin & Ether 4.59
Binance: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto 4.30
Crypto.com - Buy Bitcoin, ETH 4.14
ZenGo: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet 4.13
eToro Money 4.01
  • MetaMask is clearly over the other apps

Technologies

The technologies is evaluated using multiple hints inside the App bundle.

App Technology
Crypto.com - Buy Bitcoin, ETH Native
MetaMask - Blockchain Wallet Native
Binance: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto Native & Flutter
CoinMarketCap Flutter
ZenGo: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet Reach Native
Coinbase: Buy Bitcoin & Ether Reach Native
FTX (anciennement Blockfolio) Reach Native
eToro Money Web
  • A lot af alternative technologies are used
  • Native is not the most common implementation
  • 3 React Native Apps and 2 Flutter Apps

Minimal iOS version

App Minimal iOS version
ZenGo: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet 11.0
eToro Money 11.0
CoinMarketCap 11.0
FTX (anciennement Blockfolio) 11.0
Coinbase: Buy Bitcoin & Ether 12.0
Binance: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto 12.0
MetaMask - Blockchain Wallet 12.0
Crypto.com - Buy Bitcoin, ETH 13.0
  • Crypto.com requires iOS 13.0 which is not a bad idea but you loose some % of devices

App Size

App size is important to be able to be easyly installed and not to limited because of the network.
And not be the 1st application uninstalled if the device has less space.

App Size
FTX (anciennement Blockfolio) 28 Mb
ZenGo: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet 56 Mb
Coinbase: Buy Bitcoin & Ether 66 Mb
CoinMarketCap 70 Mb
eToro Money 79 Mb
MetaMask - Blockchain Wallet 117 Mb
Crypto.com - Buy Bitcoin, ETH 246 Mb
Binance: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto 540 Mb
  • Binance, why is it so big?
    • a lootttt of assets in a lot of internal frameworks.
  • Crypto.com, why is it so big?
    • lot of assets (of big assets) … maybe time to migrate to more vectorial integrations