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# Fastest Monero Wallet on Android in 2025? I Timed All Three With My Own Node
- URL: https://aquasp.blog/fastest-monero-wallet-on-android-in-2025-i-timed-all-three-with-my-own-node/
- Published: 2025-12-10T22:46:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-10T22:46:43.000Z
- Description: Restored a 1-year-old Monero wallet on a mid-range Samsung A56 using my own node. Monerujo: 21 min 45 sec ✓ Cake Wallet: 40 min and 13 seconds ✓ Stack Wallet: still stuck at 98 % after 1+ hours ✗ One clear winner in 2025
- Author: Aquasp
- Tags: Reviews

# Introduction

One of the major pain points of Monero is restoring an old wallet. Today, I will compare the speed of three popular Monero wallets to check which one is the fastest at restoring.

# Test data

**Date of test:** 2025-12-10  
**Device:** Samsung Galaxy A56 (Exynos 1580, 8 GB RAM, mid-range 2025 phone)  
**Connection:** Local Monero full node over Wi-Fi (same LAN, Using Deco S7)  
**Wallet:** Legacy 25-word seed created in December 2024 (\~1 year old, moderate transaction history)  
**Goal:** Full restore + sync from my restore height with each wallet to see real-world performance on a typical self-hosted setup in 2025.

### The contenders

| Wallet       | Version              | Restore height method | Notes                                               |
| ------------ | -------------------- | --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Cake Wallet  | 5.6.2                | Legacy 25-word        | Official multi-coin wallet                          |
| Stack Wallet | 2.4.2                | Legacy 25-word        | Privacy-focused, Bitcoin-first but good XMR support |
| Monerujo     | 4.1.7 (Exolix build) | Legacy 25-word        | Long-time Android-only Monero favorite              |

### Results

| Wallet       | Total time to full sync           | Behavior at 90–100%                   | Screen stay-on? | Finished? | Notes                            |
| ------------ | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | --------------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| **Monerujo** | **21 minutes 45 seconds**         | Steady speed, no slowdown             | No              | Yes       | Absolutely crushed it            |
| Cake Wallet  | 40 minutes and 13 seconds         | Very slow after \~90%, ETA broken     | Yes (huge W)    | Yes       | Got there, but it was a bit slow |
| Stack Wallet | Gave up after \~1 hour 16 minutes | Crawled after 98%, resync didn’t help | No              | No        | Stuck forever around 98–99%      |

### Detailed observations

#### Monerujo 4.1.7 – The clear winner

- Started scanning instantly
- Progress was smooth and predictable the entire time
- Never slowed down, even in the final 10%
- Just worked. 21m45s from entering the 25th word to “synchronized”.
- Does NOT prevent screen timeout → Android kept suspending the process

#### Cake Wallet 5.6.2 – It gets there… eventually

- Restore started fine
- ETA counter was not precise (showed 2 minutes for 30 minutes)
- Massive slowdown after \~90%
- Kept screen on the entire time ← this alone probably saved the sync from dying
- Eventually finished

#### Stack Wallet 2.4.2 – Disappointing

- Actually started the fastest of all three
- Flew to 98% in \~25 minutes… then died
- Speed dropped
- Restarting the app resumed at 98.49% but didn’t fix the crawl
- Tried using the "Resync" button – no improvement
- Does NOT prevent screen timeout → Android kept suspending the process
- Abandoned after 1+ hours of no meaningful progress

### Conclusion: Monerujo is the fastest in 2025 

If you want to restore an old Monero wallet on a phone using your own node in 2025, the answer is crystal clear:

**Monerujo is in a completely different league.**

Cake Wallet is still very usable and has an amazin UI/polish, but the sync performance lag is real. Stack Wallet unfortunately seems broken/super slow for large restores right now

Shoutout to the Monerujo dev(s) — whatever witchcraft you did with the scanning engine, thank you. Privacy on mobile just became faster.

Tested on 2025-12-10 with a local node. Your mileage may vary with transaction count, but the relative ordering should hold.