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Rabby Wallet vs Rainbow Rabby Wallet leads by 14 points.

Rabby Wallet scores 14 points above Rainbow, led by clear signing, key export, and incident record. Rabby Wallet ranks #1 and Rainbow #8 of 11 published wallets. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

Rabby Wallet81
Rainbow67
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #1 and #8 of 11
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-RABBY-WALLET-VS-RAINBOW-f9fb19bf
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

Rabby Wallet leads by 14 points

Rabby Wallet scores 14 points above Rainbow, led by clear signing, key export, and incident record.

Rabby Wallet #1 of 1181
Rainbow #8 of 1167
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termRabby Wallet leads on 3 of 4 published criteria; Rainbow on 1. The terms sum to the gap.
TermRabby WalletRainbowWeightPoints
Clear signing8/105/107.2+5.6for Rabby Wallet+2.9 of 32
Key export9/108/106.7+1.7for Rabby Wallet+0.9 of 32
Incident record7/102/105.8+7.5for Rabby Wallet+3.8 of 32
Account recovery8/109/104.3−1.1for Rainbow−0.6 of 32
Net of the terms+13.7
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.1
Reproduced gap+13.8
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8167+14.0

Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.

Quick facts

At a glance

3 of 4 rows read the same for both.
FactRabby WalletRainbow
PricingSnapshotThe wallet itself is free: the iOS listing returns formattedPrice "Free" (iTunes Lookup API, id 6474381673, version 0.6.96, fetched 28 October 2026) and the Chrome Web Store listing carries no price, only an install action (version 0.94.13, "Updated October 23, 2026", fetched 28 October 2026). Rabby monetises the swap route, not the wallet. The vendor states the rate once, on its swap help article: "To support the continuous development of the wallet, a service fee of 0.25% is applied to swaps. This fee is already included in the quote shown to you." (support.rabby.io/en/articles/14134156-how-to-use-rabby-swap, fetched 28 October 2026). A separate vendor page waives that fee for like-for-like pairs: "Enjoy fee-free swaps for eligible pairs on the same chain", with the two groups written open-ended, "Stablecoin ↔ Stablecoin(USDT, USDC, USDS, USDe, etc.)" and "ETH & ETH DeFi tokens(WETH, stETH, wstETH, etc.)" (support.rabby.io/en/articles/15956135-0-swap-fee-token-pairs, fetched 28 October 2026). On its own swap route Rabby does not request infinite approvals: "Rabby only approves the required amount for your specific swap." Two further paid surfaces are priced on their own pages, not this one: Rabby Perps — "Rabby's Perps feature is powered by Hyperliquid. When users place trades, both trading fees and builder fees apply." (support.rabby.io/en/articles/14150488-understanding-rabby-perps-fees) — and GasAccount, where the vendor states "Rabby Wallet does not charge any additional service fees for using GasAccount." (support.rabby.io/en/articles/15338818-what-is-gasaccount-and-how-to-use-it), both fetched 28 October 2026. No subscription, licence or per-seat charge is published on any support.rabby.io page loaded.Free to download and use (iTunes lookup for app id 1457119021, fetched 2026-10-28: formattedPrice "Free", version v2.0.46 released 8 October 2026). The only vendor-stated charge on the wallet is on swaps, quoted without a rate, on rainbow.me/support/app/bridge-and-swap-tokens (fetched 28 October 2026): "Rainbow Fee: This is the percentage/amount that Rainbow applies. This fee will always be visible for you to review." No Rainbow page loaded publishes the percentage; the learn.rainbow.me article cited in August now returns HTTP 404. A separate page, rainbow.me/support/app/staking-rnbw (fetched 28 October 2026), prices tiered cashback against that unstated fee: "Silver (5,000) → 25% fee cashback in RNBW. Gold (10,000) → 50% fee cashback in RNBW. Diamond (15,000) → 75% fee cashback in RNBW. Black (20,000) → 100% fee cashback in RNBW." and "When someone unstakes, they pay a 10% exit fee, which is distributed to everyone still staking."
Asset coverageEditorial——
Region fitSnapshotglobalglobal
Custody modelEditorialSelf-custody: the vendor cannot move funds without your keySelf-custody: the vendor cannot move funds without your key
From the published criteria

Which should you pick?

Rabby Wallet

81#1 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Rabby Wallet if clear signing matters most — it scores 8/10 to Rainbow's 5/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Key export — 9/10
Tradeoff
Read the incident record before the feature list. Rabby is the strongest pre-signature product in this pool and among the weakest at maintaining a place to tell you when it has failed. There is no bug bounty (zero occurrences of "bount" anywhere in the homepage bundle or the help centre), no SECURITY.md (GitHub states outright "No security policy detected"), no security.txt, no advisory archive, no security@ contact and no postmortem page anywhere on rabby.io or support.rabby.io — so a researcher has no published private channel to report a vulnerability. On 2022-10-11 the Rabby Swap contract was drained of roughly $194,000 of user funds via approvals granted to it. In fairness the vendor did disclose it the same day on X, with a list of affected addresses, the four exploited contract addresses and revoke instructions — but that thread is now the ONLY disclosure that exists, and nearly four years on Rabby's own website and help centre still contain no mention of the event, nor any confirmation that the promised "satisfying solution for users within 1 week" was ever delivered. Weigh that against what IS published, which is more than it first appears: fourteen dated third-party audit reports across two repositories, from SlowMist, Least Authority and Cure53, spanning 2021-2025, with iOS and Android audited separately, and the extension set linked from a "Security & Transparency" section on Rabby's own homepage. Better than most of this pool, and newly refreshed: since August, SlowMist reports dated 2026-08-24 for the extension, iOS and Android have been added to the two repositories' audits/2026 folders. Three narrower things before committing. First, the protection you are buying is documented and sold for the EXTENSION: the Chrome Web Store listing advertises "pre-transaction potential risk scanning" and "upcoming balance change before you sign", while Rabby's own App Store and Google Play descriptions claim neither, so do not assume the mobile app is the same object. Second, no Rabby page ever prints "BIP-39" or a derivation path — verified zero hits across every vendor surface — so if you later want to restore your phrase into a different wallet you will be cycling HD-path options by trial and error. Third, the open-source guarantee is uneven: the extension's code is under an MIT grant (its LICENSE adds that "Brand name and logo of Rabby is copyright reserved", and GitHub reports the licence as NOASSERTION), but the mobile repository carries no licence file at all, so its published source grants no formal right to rebuild it if the vendor disappears.

Rainbow

67#8 of 11
Pick it when
Pick Rainbow if account recovery matters most — it scores 9/10 to Rabby Wallet's 8/10 there (weight 18).
Strength
Recovery exit — 9/10
Tradeoff
Read the security surface before you commit, because there isn't one. rainbow.me/security is a 301 to a marketing article whose case for safety is "Rainbow is open source" and a "world class team" — no advisory archive, no linked audit, no bug bounty, and the GitHub Security tab says outright "This project has not set up a SECURITY.md file yet" with zero advisories. Rainbow's own sitemap lists 11 URLs and not one of them is a security page. Everything verifiable about this wallet, you verify yourself from the GPL-3.0 source; nothing is verifiable from the vendor. That matters more in 2026 than it did in 2024, because the app you install today is a leveraged-trading front end — 50x perps via Hyperliquid, prediction markets, $RNBW staking tiers — while the Terms of Use governing it were last updated December 13, 2023, the release-notes feed stops at September 23, 2024, and the App Store listing, refreshed with version 2.0.45 on 2026-09-17, still describes a six-chain Ethereum wallet with no mention of perps. The wallet underneath is genuinely good and genuinely exportable. The company around it stopped publishing.
Self-identify in 10 seconds

Which one is actually for you?

Rabby WalletLeads

Choose Rabby Wallet if clear signing matters most

  • Clear signing: 8/10 against 5/10 for Rainbow (weight 30)
  • Key export: 9/10 against 8/10 for Rainbow (weight 28)
  • Incident record: 7/10 against 2/10 for Rainbow (weight 24)
Rainbow

Choose Rainbow if account recovery matters most

  • Account recovery: 9/10 against 8/10 for Rabby Wallet (weight 18)
Criterion by criterion

Scorecard

Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology

Key export

by 1 of 10weight 6.7 of 86Rabby Wallet leads
Rabby Wallet9 out of 10
Rainbow8 out of 10

Clear signing

by 3 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Rabby Wallet leads
Rabby Wallet8 out of 10
Rainbow5 out of 10

Incident record

by 5 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Rabby Wallet leads
Rabby Wallet7 out of 10
Rainbow2 out of 10

Account recovery

by 1 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Rainbow leads
Rabby Wallet8 out of 10
Rainbow9 out of 10

Score dimensions

weights sum to 86

The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.

Availabilityweight 20 of 86 · constant here
Rabby Wallet14/20Rainbow14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Rabby Wallet19.3/30Rainbow14/30
Rabby Wallet leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Rabby Wallet2.7/10Rainbow2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Rabby Wallet3.2/8Rainbow3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Rabby Wallet8.3/18Rainbow8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose Rabby Wallet unless the term Rainbow leads on is the one you are buying.

Pick Rainbow if account recovery matters most — it scores 9/10 to Rabby Wallet's 8/10 there (weight 18).

The published order weighs every criterion the same way for everyone. To weigh them your way, run .

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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Key failure: your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.
    Scored by Can I export my own keys and use them elsewhere? · 28% (Rabby Wallet 9/10, Rainbow 8/10)
    Scored by Can I see exactly what I am signing? · 30% (Rabby Wallet 8/10, Rainbow 5/10)
    Scored by What has gone wrong, and did they publish it? · 24% (Rabby Wallet 7/10, Rainbow 2/10)
    Scored by If I lose my device, how do I get back in? · 18% (Rabby Wallet 8/10, Rainbow 9/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
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Rabby Wallet scores 14 points above Rainbow, led by clear signing, key export, and incident record. Published scores, out of 100: Rabby Wallet 81 (rank 1 of 11 wallets), Rainbow 67 (rank 8 of 11).

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Re-read in progressOverdue; re-read by 10 November 2026.
Methodology v2026.10.18
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Reviewed means both products compared here was read against its sources on or after that date; every ranked category is re-read at least every 45 days. Models research, extract and parse. A deterministic engine ranks. Every quote passes an adversarial refute pass.

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