Trust Wallet vs Exodus Trust Wallet leads by 11 points.
Trust Wallet scores 11 points above Exodus, led by clear signing and incident record. Trust Wallet ranks #3 and Exodus #6 of 11 published wallets. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.
Trust Wallet80
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Exodus69
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #3 and #6 of 11
Trust Wallet scores 11 points above Exodus, led by clear signing and incident record.
Trust Wallet #3 of 1180
Exodus #6 of 1169
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termTrust Wallet leads on 2 of 4 published criteria; Exodus on 2. The terms sum to the gap.
TermTrust WalletExodusWeightPoints
Clear signing8/102/107.2+11.2for Trust Wallet+5.8 of 32
Key export8/109/106.7−1.7for Exodus−0.9 of 32
Incident record8/106/105.8+3.0for Trust Wallet+1.5 of 32
Account recovery7/109/104.3−2.2for Exodus−1.2 of 32
Net of the terms+10.2
Criteria roundingThe criteria block is rounded to whole points before it is spread+0.2
Reproduced gap+10.4
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below8069+11.0
Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.
Trust WalletScore 80Mainstream self-custody mobile wallet with a genuinely documented simulate-and-decode signing screen on both platforms — but whose browser extension was supply-chain compromised in December 2025, still cannot export a raw private key, and whose audit register and security page carry no account of its own 2023 key-generation flaw.Strength: Key export — 8/10Watch-out: Read the vendor's own v2.68 post-mortem before you install the browser extension: https://trustwallet.com/blog/company/trust-wallet-browser-extension-v268-incident-community-update. Between 24 and 26 December 2025 an attacker published a backdoored build of the extension straight to the Chrome Web Store using a leaked API key, bypassing Trust Wallet's internal review; the vendor confirms 2,520 wallet addresses drained and approximately $8.5m in assets impacted. Reimbursement is promised but not finished: as of the post's last update on 17 July 2026 it still reads "We are finalizing the reimbursement workflow and ownership verification process", against "over 5,000 claims" for 2,520 verified addresses, and the page's own description calls itself "A work-in-progress update". The extension is also the weaker half of the product on exit: Developer Mode, the only documented private-key export, is "not available on Browser Extension". Separately, no vendor account of the 2022-23 key-generation flaw (CVE-2023-31290, exploited in the wild in December 2022 and March 2023) appears on its security-audit register or its /security page, both re-read on 2026-09-28, despite a published policy that remediated vulnerabilities will be disclosed. If you want Trust Wallet, the mobile app is the surface the evidence supports; treat the extension as the higher-risk, lower-portability half.ExodusScore 69Closed-source multi-device self-custody wallet from an NYSE American-listed issuer: exemplary documented key export and exit, and since 1 October 2026 no screen for signing third-party (dApp) requests at all.Strength: Key export — 9/10Watch-out: Read this before committing: Exodus no longer signs dApp requests on any platform. Mobile lost them first: "WalletConnect and the dApp browser are no longer available in Exodus Mobile" and "you can no longer connect to, manage, or approve requests for web3 connections in Exodus Mobile". Then the browser extension went: "Support for Exodus Web3 Wallet ended on October 1, 2026 .", and in Exodus's words "To keep using dApps or web3 apps, you'll need to use a different wallet that supports web3 connections." (read 28 October 2026). If you used the extension, view its 12-word key before you uninstall it: "If you uninstall the browser extension, you won't be able to view your secret key or reinstall the extension." Two further asymmetries a buyer should price. The wallet is free but the earn side is opaque: Exodus publishes no spread number, and its own 10-K shows five API Providers generating 69.1% of revenue. And the security record is unfalsifiable rather than clean — the HackerOne policy forbids discussing "any vulnerabilities (even resolved ones)" publicly, there is no advisory archive, no third-party audit is published, and the vendor pre-commits that it "will not be able to compensate you for the loss of your funds." Exodus is a strong place to hold, move and eventually LEAVE with your coins — the key-export and exit documentation both score 9/10, among the strongest in this pool — and no place to sign contract calls: its only documented dApp-signing surface, the Web3 Wallet extension, ended on October 1, 2026.
Quick facts
At a glance
3 of 4 rows read the same for both.
FactTrust WalletExodus
PricingSnapshotThe wallet is free: "Yes. Trust Wallet is free to download and use on iOS, Android and as a browser extension. Network and service fees apply to transactions such as swaps or buying crypto, and they are shown before you confirm." (FAQ answer in the structured data of trustwallet.com, fetched 28 October 2026). No Trust Wallet swap rate is published on any vendor page loaded on 28 October 2026 — the homepage fee sentence recorded in August, which stated separate stablecoin and other-token swap rates, is gone — and the vendor's own statements now conflict. The swap page says "No, Trust Wallet does not charge any additional service fees for swaps. Any swap fees incurred by users for swapping would be network gas fees and third-party provider fees, which are independent of Trust Wallet." (trustwallet.com/swap, fetched 28 October 2026), and the help centre repeats "Trust Wallet does not charge a service fee - fees shown are from the routing protocol and the underlying networks." (support.trustwallet.com/en/articles/717169-how-to-perform-cross-chain-swaps-in-trust-wallet, fetched 28 October 2026). Yet a campaign post dated 27 August 2026 says "When you swap one eligible stablecoin for another on the same chain, the Trust Wallet swap fee is 0%" and "Each of those swaps normally carries a fee." (trustwallet.com/blog/campaigns/swap-selected-stablecoins-with-0-fees-on-trust-wallet), and a second, dated 16 September 2026, offers "0% Trust Wallet swap fees" on eligible staked and wrapped pairs (trustwallet.com/blog/campaigns/wap-staked-assets-with-0-fees-on-trust-wallet). Read the fee line on the in-app quote; the vendor publishes no percentage."Are there Exodus wallet fees? Or Exodus transaction fees? How about Exodus swap fees?" — "Exodus doesn't charge any fees, but almost all blockchain transactions will cost a network transaction fee (also known as gas) when you send crypto." The same article qualifies this for the in-app rails: "Buying and selling crypto in Exodus includes a processing fee and a network transaction fee." and "Swaps in Exodus may include a spread and a network transaction fee.", and adds "With Exodus Pay, you can send Cash to other Exodus Pay users without paying network transaction fees." (Exodus help article 8611278, "Does Exodus have transaction fees to send or receive?", read 28 October 2026 on the vendor's Intercom knowledge base, intercom.help/exodus; www.exodus.com answers a Cloudflare challenge). Exodus publishes no number for the spread: "There's no fixed spread, even when swapping the same two assets. Spreads change based on liquidity and market conditions at the time you're making a swap." (article 8598754, read 28 October 2026). The iOS app is free (iTunes Lookup id 1414384820: "Exodus: Crypto & Payments", Free, version 26.10.23, fetched 28 October 2026). The FY2025 Form 10-K discloses the revenue model — an agent's share of third-party API Provider volume: "five API Providers each accounted for more than 10% of our revenues and collectively generated 69.1% of revenue." (sec.gov, exod-20251231.htm, re-read 28 October 2026). So the wallet is free, and the buyer pays through an unpublished spread on rails run by a concentrated set of third parties.
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?
Trust Wallet
80#3 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick Trust Wallet if clear signing matters most — it scores 8/10 to Exodus's 2/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Key export — 8/10
Tradeoff
Read the vendor's own v2.68 post-mortem before you install the browser extension: https://trustwallet.com/blog/company/trust-wallet-browser-extension-v268-incident-community-update. Between 24 and 26 December 2025 an attacker published a backdoored build of the extension straight to the Chrome Web Store using a leaked API key, bypassing Trust Wallet's internal review; the vendor confirms 2,520 wallet addresses drained and approximately $8.5m in assets impacted. Reimbursement is promised but not finished: as of the post's last update on 17 July 2026 it still reads "We are finalizing the reimbursement workflow and ownership verification process", against "over 5,000 claims" for 2,520 verified addresses, and the page's own description calls itself "A work-in-progress update". The extension is also the weaker half of the product on exit: Developer Mode, the only documented private-key export, is "not available on Browser Extension". Separately, no vendor account of the 2022-23 key-generation flaw (CVE-2023-31290, exploited in the wild in December 2022 and March 2023) appears on its security-audit register or its /security page, both re-read on 2026-09-28, despite a published policy that remediated vulnerabilities will be disclosed. If you want Trust Wallet, the mobile app is the surface the evidence supports; treat the extension as the higher-risk, lower-portability half.
Exodus
69#6 of 11
Pick it when
Pick Exodus if key export matters most — it scores 9/10 to Trust Wallet's 8/10 there (weight 28).
Strength
Key export — 9/10
Tradeoff
Read this before committing: Exodus no longer signs dApp requests on any platform. Mobile lost them first: "WalletConnect and the dApp browser are no longer available in Exodus Mobile" and "you can no longer connect to, manage, or approve requests for web3 connections in Exodus Mobile". Then the browser extension went: "Support for Exodus Web3 Wallet ended on October 1, 2026 .", and in Exodus's words "To keep using dApps or web3 apps, you'll need to use a different wallet that supports web3 connections." (read 28 October 2026). If you used the extension, view its 12-word key before you uninstall it: "If you uninstall the browser extension, you won't be able to view your secret key or reinstall the extension." Two further asymmetries a buyer should price. The wallet is free but the earn side is opaque: Exodus publishes no spread number, and its own 10-K shows five API Providers generating 69.1% of revenue. And the security record is unfalsifiable rather than clean — the HackerOne policy forbids discussing "any vulnerabilities (even resolved ones)" publicly, there is no advisory archive, no third-party audit is published, and the vendor pre-commits that it "will not be able to compensate you for the loss of your funds." Exodus is a strong place to hold, move and eventually LEAVE with your coins — the key-export and exit documentation both score 9/10, among the strongest in this pool — and no place to sign contract calls: its only documented dApp-signing surface, the Web3 Wallet extension, ended on October 1, 2026.
Self-identify in 10 seconds
Which one is actually for you?
Trust WalletLeads
Choose Trust Wallet if clear signing matters most
Clear signing: 8/10 against 2/10 for Exodus (weight 30)
Incident record: 8/10 against 6/10 for Exodus (weight 24)
Trust WalletScore 80Mainstream self-custody mobile wallet with a genuinely documented simulate-and-decode signing screen on both platforms — but whose browser extension was supply-chain compromised in December 2025, still cannot export a raw private key, and whose audit register and security page carry no account of its own 2023 key-generation flaw.Strength: Key export — 8/10Watch-out: Read the vendor's own v2.68 post-mortem before you install the browser extension: https://trustwallet.com/blog/company/trust-wallet-browser-extension-v268-incident-community-update. Between 24 and 26 December 2025 an attacker published a backdoored build of the extension straight to the Chrome Web Store using a leaked API key, bypassing Trust Wallet's internal review; the vendor confirms 2,520 wallet addresses drained and approximately $8.5m in assets impacted. Reimbursement is promised but not finished: as of the post's last update on 17 July 2026 it still reads "We are finalizing the reimbursement workflow and ownership verification process", against "over 5,000 claims" for 2,520 verified addresses, and the page's own description calls itself "A work-in-progress update". The extension is also the weaker half of the product on exit: Developer Mode, the only documented private-key export, is "not available on Browser Extension". Separately, no vendor account of the 2022-23 key-generation flaw (CVE-2023-31290, exploited in the wild in December 2022 and March 2023) appears on its security-audit register or its /security page, both re-read on 2026-09-28, despite a published policy that remediated vulnerabilities will be disclosed. If you want Trust Wallet, the mobile app is the surface the evidence supports; treat the extension as the higher-risk, lower-portability half.
Exodus
Choose Exodus if key export matters most
Key export: 9/10 against 8/10 for Trust Wallet (weight 28)
Account recovery: 9/10 against 7/10 for Trust Wallet (weight 18)
ExodusScore 69Closed-source multi-device self-custody wallet from an NYSE American-listed issuer: exemplary documented key export and exit, and since 1 October 2026 no screen for signing third-party (dApp) requests at all.Strength: Key export — 9/10Watch-out: Read this before committing: Exodus no longer signs dApp requests on any platform. Mobile lost them first: "WalletConnect and the dApp browser are no longer available in Exodus Mobile" and "you can no longer connect to, manage, or approve requests for web3 connections in Exodus Mobile". Then the browser extension went: "Support for Exodus Web3 Wallet ended on October 1, 2026 .", and in Exodus's words "To keep using dApps or web3 apps, you'll need to use a different wallet that supports web3 connections." (read 28 October 2026). If you used the extension, view its 12-word key before you uninstall it: "If you uninstall the browser extension, you won't be able to view your secret key or reinstall the extension." Two further asymmetries a buyer should price. The wallet is free but the earn side is opaque: Exodus publishes no spread number, and its own 10-K shows five API Providers generating 69.1% of revenue. And the security record is unfalsifiable rather than clean — the HackerOne policy forbids discussing "any vulnerabilities (even resolved ones)" publicly, there is no advisory archive, no third-party audit is published, and the vendor pre-commits that it "will not be able to compensate you for the loss of your funds." Exodus is a strong place to hold, move and eventually LEAVE with your coins — the key-export and exit documentation both score 9/10, among the strongest in this pool — and no place to sign contract calls: its only documented dApp-signing surface, the Web3 Wallet extension, ended on October 1, 2026.
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 86Exodus leads
Trust Wallet8/10 out of 10
Exodus9/10 out of 10
Clear signing
by 6 of 10weight 7.2 of 86Trust Wallet leads
Trust Wallet8/10 out of 10
Exodus2/10 out of 10
Incident record
by 2 of 10weight 5.8 of 86Trust Wallet leads
Trust Wallet8/10 out of 10
Exodus6/10 out of 10
Account recovery
by 2 of 10weight 4.3 of 86Exodus leads
Trust Wallet7/10 out of 10
Exodus9/10 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
Trust Wallet14/20Exodus14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
Trust Wallet18.8/30Exodus14.8/30
Trust Wallet leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
Trust Wallet2.7/10Exodus2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
Trust Wallet3.2/8Exodus3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
Trust Wallet8.3/18Exodus8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order
Choose Trust Wallet unless the term Exodus leads on is the one you are buying.
Pick Exodus if key export matters most — it scores 9/10 to Trust Wallet's 8/10 there (weight 28).
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Key failure: your own keys are made, shown or recovered unsafely.
Scored by Can I export my own keys and use them elsewhere? · 28% (Trust Wallet 8/10, Exodus 9/10)
Scored by Can I see exactly what I am signing? · 30% (Trust Wallet 8/10, Exodus 2/10)
Scored by What has gone wrong, and did they publish it? · 24% (Trust Wallet 8/10, Exodus 6/10)
Scored by If I lose my device, how do I get back in? · 18% (Trust Wallet 7/10, Exodus 9/10)
Trust Wallet scores 11 points above Exodus, led by clear signing and incident record. Published scores, out of 100: Trust Wallet 80 (rank 3 of 11 wallets), Exodus 69 (rank 6 of 11).
ReviewedRe-read in progressOverdue; re-read by 10 November 2026.Methodology v2026.10.18
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