Native Bitcoin wallet for macOS

Your Bitcoin. Your keys. Your Mac.

Selectrum is a non-custodial wallet with a fast, familiar Electrum-style interface. Keys are created on your computer and never leave it — no account, no cloud, no tracking.

Coming soon to the App Store How it works

macOS 14 or later · English interface · On-chain payments and Lightning channels

The Selectrum History tab showing twenty transactions with notes, amounts, balances and fiat values

A demo wallet with a sample history. It holds no real funds.

Non-custodialOnly you hold the keys
Encrypted at restAES-256-GCM wallet file
Open standardsBIP39 · BIP32 · BIP44/49/84
No telemetryNo accounts, no analytics

Everything a wallet should do — and nothing it shouldn’t

The model is deliberately small: your computer holds the keys, public Electrum servers supply blockchain data, and nothing else is in the loop.

Keys stay on your Mac

Your seed phrase and private keys are created on this computer and kept in a password-encrypted wallet file. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is synced to a cloud.

Recoverable from words

Write down twelve words once. If the Mac is lost, the same words rebuild the wallet on any compatible app; balances and history come back from the blockchain.

Ready in seconds

There is no blockchain to download. Selectrum asks Electrum servers about your addresses, shows the progress, and caches the result so the next start is quick.

Standards, not lock-in

BIP39 and Electrum seed phrases, BIP32 derivation, BIP44, BIP49 and BIP84 address types. Your seed is not trapped inside this app.

Pick your own server

Let the app choose a public Electrum server, pin the one you like, or connect to your own node. No single company stands between you and the network.

Checked before it leaves

Every payment is previewed and signed on your Mac, and the signature is verified once more before the transaction is broadcast. Replace-by-fee is on by default.

Watch-only wallets

Import an extended public key or a list of addresses to follow balances and history with no private keys on the machine at all.

Lightning built in

An LDK-based node lives inside the app: open and close channels from your on-chain balance and see capacity, sendable and receivable amounts at a glance.

Private by design

Route all traffic through a SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy such as Tor and keep the proxy password in the macOS Keychain. No accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting.

See it in action

Real screens of the app, filled with the activity of a demo wallet: a few months of payments, requests, invoices and Lightning channels.

The history of a demo wallet in Selectrum: dates, notes, amounts, balances and fiat values

Every payment, in order

Dates, confirmations, your own notes and the running balance in bitcoin and in fiat. Filter by period, export to CSV, open a balance chart or a summary of the whole history.

The Send tab with a payment form and a list of saved invoices

Pay with a few keystrokes

Type an address or paste a bitcoin: link, add a note, enter the amount in BTC or in fiat. Saved invoices remember what is still unpaid and what has already been settled.

The Receive tab with a QR code and a list of payment requests

Requests that track themselves

Create a payment request with an amount, a note and an expiry. Each one gets its own address and QR code, and the list shows which are waiting, expired or paid.

The Channels tab listing three Lightning channels

Lightning channels at a glance

Open and close channels and watch capacity, how much you can send and how much you can receive. A balance view splits your funds between on-chain and Lightning.

Details of a transaction: inputs, outputs, fee rate and confirmations

Nothing hidden

Open any transaction to see its inputs, outputs, size, fee rate, lock time and block height. Addresses that belong to your wallet are highlighted.

You decide how it connects

Connect automatically, pick a server by hand, or send everything through a proxy. The window shows which server you are on and how high its chain is.

How it works, in four steps

A wallet is a set of keys plus a view of the blockchain. Selectrum keeps the first part on your Mac and borrows the second from Electrum servers.

Create or restore
Generate a new twelve-word seed phrase or enter one you already have, then set a password for the wallet file.
Sync
The app derives your addresses and asks a server for their history. New blocks and payments arrive as pushes.
Receive
Make a payment request with an amount, a note and an expiry. Share the address or the QR code.
Send
Choose the fee, review the preview and enter your password. The transaction is signed locally, then broadcast.

Read the full walkthrough

Security you can reason about

No magic and no hand-waving: a short list of things the app does, and an honest list of things it does not.

Your keys

Generated from 128 bits of system randomness, derived with BIP32, used only on this Mac. Transactions are signed locally with deterministic RFC 6979 nonces.

Your file

The wallet is sealed with AES-256-GCM. The key comes from your password through PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 with 300,000 rounds and a random salt.

Your connection

Electrum protocol over TLS with certificate validation or fingerprint pinning, optional SOCKS5/HTTP proxy, and your proxy password kept in the Keychain.

Read the security model

Lightning, built into the same window

Selectrum embeds an LDK Node. Its keys are derived from your wallet seed in a separate domain, its chain data comes from the same Electrum server, and a channel is funded from your on-chain balance in a couple of clicks.

Today the app manages channels: open, close, monitor. Sending and receiving Lightning payments is not available yet, and we say so here instead of in the fine print.

How channels work

The balance dialog splitting funds between confirmed, unconfirmed and Lightning

Questions people ask

Is Selectrum custodial?

No. Selectrum never holds your bitcoin and has no servers that could. The keys that control your coins are generated on your Mac and are stored only in your encrypted wallet file. That also means nobody, including us, can recover them for you: keep your seed phrase safe.

What happens if I lose my Mac?

Install Selectrum (or another wallet that supports the same seed type) on a new computer and enter your twelve words. Your balance and history are rebuilt from the blockchain. Without the words and without the wallet file the coins cannot be recovered by anyone.

Does it download the whole blockchain?

No. Selectrum talks to Electrum servers, which index the blockchain and answer questions about your addresses. That is why it starts in seconds. The trade-off is that you rely on the server for history; see Security for what this means and how to reduce the trust.

Which seed phrases can I use?

Standard BIP39 phrases (with an optional passphrase) and Electrum seed phrases of the Standard and SegWit types. You can also create a new twelve-word phrase, import an extended key, or watch a list of addresses.

Can I pay over Lightning?

Not yet. Selectrum runs a Lightning node and lets you open and close channels, but sending and receiving Lightning payments and invoices is not implemented in this version. On-chain payments are fully supported.

What does it not do?

No multi-signature wallets, hardware wallets, PSBT files or manual coin control, and there is no SPV proof checking. The limits are listed openly so that you can decide whether Selectrum fits your needs.

Selectrum for Mac

A native macOS app. Dark interface, in English.

macOS 14 or laterInternet access to Electrum serversYour own seed phrase backup

Coming soon to the App Store

Start with a small amount, restore the wallet from its seed phrase once to prove that your backup works, and only then move more. Read the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy before you install.