note from the author : this article is 9 month old and the Ledger Live have well evolved since. I may update it when the Leger X will be delivered

The long awaited Ledger all-in-one app is here, is it worth the wait ?

TL;DR Yes, for now :)

The Ledger team told us about their new application quite a long time ago. It was on February 23rd 2018, nearly 6 month ago, an eternity in the crypto world.

At this time, BTC was valued $ 10309 (not to far from twice as $ 6670 today), same for ETH $ 871.17 (compared to current value of $ 471.60), even during this dump, which can be interpreted as a crypto winter, Ledger teams went on working, and has just published it new Ledger Live 1.0.1.

The application is brand new, so bugs are to be expected, and new releases will probably follow shortly with expected corrections and missing features

Ledger Live video from Ledgerwallet.com

The previous app version only allowed to check the Ledger’s balance one coin at a time, and you needed to install all the coins’ app on your Ledger to check. This used to led to rounds of installing and removing the apps as the Ledger storage is small : the infamous “ insufficient space” error was close.

With the new application, these times are gone but this is not just install and forget…

The setup is pretty straightforward, the documentation provided is simple and efficient, but you have to install the tool, perform the security checks, then add individually an account for each coin you have.

Furthermore, the binaries checksums have been forgotten on the download page…

You can find them here (thanks to the Reddit post):

- Windows

- Linux

- Mac