Why Bitcoin Apps are going to be huge in 2018?

Bitcoins have witnessed a staggering growth in the last one year. Bitcoin registered a growth of 1600% from January 2017 to December 2017 and has grown from around $900 in the beginning of the year to around $16,700 (BTC/USD) as on Dec 15th. Many other crypto-currencies such as Litecoin, Ethereum etc. have followed with high growth rates of their own. They have become more and more acceptable, wider in usage and transactions through crypto-currencies such as bitcoin are becoming more and more frequent. An article in-fact suggests that this growth is far from over, and that such growth was seen in the past as well.

What types of Bitcoin Apps are available?

To use and transact with Bitcoins, mobile apps are now becoming a norm rather than an exception. This is only expected to rise in 2018. Since Bitcoin is an alternate currency of monetary transactions and exchange, we are seeing apps in use such as:

Tools: These are apps which provide with analysis, news, tracking and other value add and are specifically not wallets etc.

These are apps which provide with analysis, news, tracking and other value add and are specifically not wallets etc. Wallets: Like normal currency mobile wallets, bitcoin and other crypto currency wallets also make for very useful apps.

Like normal currency mobile wallets, bitcoin and other crypto currency wallets also make for very useful apps. Payment Apps: Allow you to make payments in Bitcoins or provide for marketplaces with bitcoins as a currency.

Allow you to make payments in Bitcoins or provide for marketplaces with bitcoins as a currency. Game Apps: Games with In App purchases or earnings through Bitcoins when playing games, answering questions, viewing ads etc.

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Selecting the Best Bitcoin or other CryptoCurrency related Apps for 2018

While selecting the top 10 Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency Apps for 2018 we considered the following:

a) App Usage, Reviews and Popularity: We did not consider apps with ratings less than 3.5

b) App features, Uniqueness, Awards, Recommendation from Influencers

c) Reach and Branding of the app through Social media, Articles, Scale and Funding

So here is the List of the top 10 Bitcoin Apps (or best Bitcoin Apps) for 2018:

1. Coinbase App

What does the Coinbase app do ?

The Coinbase App is basically a wallet where you can:

✓ Buy and sell digital currency: You can easily buy and sell digital currency like bitcoin, ether, and litecoin directly from your Coinbase account without having to leave the app. This functionality is available in 32 countries.

✓ Connect bank account: You can easily deposit or withdraw money, and buy or sell bitcoin with your linked bank account.

✓ Connect credit and debit cards: You can purchase bitcoin, ether, and litecoin with your linked credit cards in 32 countries.

✓ Connect PayPal: You can sell bitcoin, ether, and litecoin with your linked PayPal account in US.

✓ Merchant services – accepted by over 38,000 businesses such as Dell, Expedia, and Overstock.

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.3/5 in over 125,510 ratings for android | 4.7 / 5 in 376311 Ratings for iOS

Installs: 1,000,000 – 5,000,000 on android.

Mentions / Awards: Perhaps the biggest Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin wallet allowing you to buy and store these currencies. Having 11 M customers and 38 K merchants supporting it. Coinbase incidentally became the first crypto unicorn in August 2017 raising $100 million in funding according to this Forbes article.

2. Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet

What does the Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet App do ?

The Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet allows you to send and receive Bitcoins using your mobile phone.

You have 100% control over your private keys which remain in the device unless you export them.

– No blockchain download required, install and run it in seconds

– HD enabled – manage multiple accounts and never reuse addresses (BIP32, BIP44)

– Ultra fast connection to the Bitcoin network through super nodes

– Watch-only addresses & private key import for secure cold-storage integration

– Allowing you to Secure your wallet with a PIN

Ratings and Users

Ratings: Android: 4.2/5 over 4,222 . iOS : 2.9 / 5 over 77

Installs: 500,000 – 1,000,000 (on Android)

Mentions / Awards: One of the largest and highly rated (at-least in android) around. Raised funds in crowd-sale recently. Lot of Api Integrations.

3. Bitcoin Wallet

What does the Bitcoin Wallet App do ?

• No registration, web service or cloud needed! This wallet is de-centralized and peer to peer.

• Display of Bitcoin amount in BTC, mBTC and µBTC.

• Conversion to and from national currencies.

• Sending and receiving of Bitcoin via NFC, QR-codes or Bitcoin URLs.

• Address book for regularly used Bitcoin addresses.

• When you’re offline, you can still pay via Bluetooth.

• System notification for received coins.

• Sweeping of paper wallets (e.g. those used for cold storage).

Ratings and Users

Ratings: For Android – 4 / 5 in over 17,358 ratings

Installs: 1 million to 5 million on Android

Mentions / Awards: Rated as one of the best Bitcoin wallets. Unique thing is that this is an Open Source wallet and one of the first ones still retaining a simple design.

4. Bitcoin Checker by Mobnetic

What does the Bitcoin Checker do?

Monitor the most RECENT prices of all CRYPTO-currencies on over 80 exchanges from all around the world. Watch the prices displayed in readable notifications right in your status bar. Along with price check, several alarm conditions can alert you about current price changes/level.

★ FREE app

★ Track nearly all virtual currencies or ALTcoins – not only BTC (depending on exchange)

★ Synchronize currency pairs set directly with exchange server (available on some exchanges)

★ Persistence and rich notifications in status bar

★ Display coin prices in subunits: mBTC, uBTC, Satoshi or mLTC.

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.7 / 5 for Android in over 12,107

Installs: 100,000 – 500,000 for Android.

Mentions / Awards: Featured in Android Authority, Softonic, Newbium, Bitcoin News etc. Actively maintained.

5. BitPay

What does the BitPay app do?

Manage your bitcoin finances in one app with the secure, open source BitPay Wallet. Get up and running fast with bitcoin security, store and send funds anywhere, buy and sell bitcoin, and turn bitcoin into dollars with the BitPay Visa Card.

– Support Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash

– Multiple bitcoin wallet creation and management in-app

– Integration for loading, managing, and spending the BitPay Visa Card.

– Integration for buying and selling bitcoin.

– Integration for buying Amazon.com gift cards.

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 in 2170 ratings for Android | 4.5 out of 5 in 270 ratings for iOS

Installs: 100000 – 500,0000 for Android

Mentions / Awards: Featured in Huffington Post, raising $30 million in series B funding after similar Series A raise. Regarded as a very promising Bitcoin wallet. Investors include Sir Richard Branson.

Note: One thing to keep in mind for wallet or payment apps for bitcoin is the high transaction fee being charged in many of these. So just keep your eyes open on that.

6. Copay App

What does the Copay App do ?

CoPay is yet another Bitcoin wallet but with a different twist. Copay users can hold funds individually or share finances securely with other users with multisignature wallets, which prevent unauthorized payments by requiring multiple approvals. So the Copay wallet can be shared with other users for joint usage such as:

– To save for vacations or joint purchases with friends

– Multiple wallet management

– To track family spending and allowances

– To manage business, club, or organization funds and expenses

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.5 / 5 from 1760 reviews on Android | 4.5 / 5 from 112 reviews on iOS

Installs: 100,000 – 500,000 for android

Mentions / Awards: Uses hierarchical-deterministic (HD) wallets, allowing for secure in-app wallet generation and backup.

7. Blockfolio

What does the Blockfolio App do?

Blockfolio offers complete Bitcoin and Altcoin cryptocurrency management, with easy to use tools to keep track of all your crypto investments. Get detailed price and market information for individual currencies and manage your entire portfolio all in one place.

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.7 in over 45472 ratings on Android | 4.7 over 2051 ratings on iOS

Installs: 1,000,000 – 5,000,000 on Android

Mentions / Awards / Unique points: One of the best portfolio tracking and management tools. Covers an incredible 2000 cryptocurrencies. Recommended for serious traders.

8. Bitcoin Price IQ

What does the Bitcoin Price IQ App do?

Bitcoin Price IQ is a Bitcoin / crypto-currency price tracker that lets you analyse and check the latest prices of bitcoin and hundreds of other cryptocurrencies including Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, DASH and more.

– Real time Data

– Watchlist and Price alert

– 165 + fiat currencies

– Breaking news

– Claims to be Lightweight and Fasts

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.5 / 5 from 4,152 rating in Android

Installs: 100,000 – 500,000 on Android

Mentions / Awards: Interactive Price charts, frequently makes to the top 10 tool apps for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies

9. Blockchain – Bitcoin & Ether Wallet

What does the Blockchain App do?

– Send and receive bitcoin and ether instantly with anyone in the world

– Seamlessly exchange between bitcoin and ether

– A security center to help protect your funds from unauthorized access

– Advanced Two-Factor Authentication keeps the bad guys out

– Successfully completed security audits by world-class researchers

– PIN Protection

– 20+ currency conversion rates

– 18 languages

– Highly secure backup and recovery

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.4 / 5 from 28,111 ratings on Android | 4.7 out of 5 in 16156 ratings on iOS

Installs: 1,000,000 – 5,000,000 on Android

Mentions / Awards: One of the most widely used Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether wallet. 21 million users according to their google play store page.

10. zTrader Altcoin/Bitcoin Trader

What does the zTrader Altcoin/Bitcoin app do?

zTrader is a fully-featured, lightweight, and secure trading client for the largest Bitcoin and altcoin exchanges. One can trade hundreds of digital currencies on 17 different exchanges through it.

• Full trading capability with seamless switching between exchanges and currencies

• Charts with many popular technical analysis tools (similar to BitcoinWisdom)

• Market overview (similar to CoinMarketCap)

• Secure encrypted storage of API keys

• Price alerts and percentage alerts

• Chatroom to interact with traders

Ratings and Users

Ratings: 4.2 / 5 in 1,155 reviews for Android

Installs: 50,000 – 100,000 installs on Android

Mentions / Awards / Media: Featured on App Annie, released in 2014. Lot of exchanges and currencies which are regularly added.

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*Image Credits: Google PlayStore pages , App Website . All rights with App owners. Reviews and Ratings for apps may change from time to time. The article reflects ratings around the 3rd week of Dec 2017

Warning: Bitcoin investment and trading is speculative and under market risk. Please use these apps and trade, invest at own risk with all due diligence. Creative Spark Solutions is not associated with any of these apps.