Skylight, the best mobile Monero wallet w/ zero sync wait
Skylight by MAGIC Grants is one of the very few wallets that run off Monero LWS, which kills the dreaded sync wait I hate so much. Brings us closer to a mobile XMR experience w/ the UX modern chains provide.
Making a mobile device do the chain scan never made much architectural sense to begin w/. Offloading it to a server you control is a much more sound and coherent approach, especially on mobile. As someone who uses XMR a lot, especially on P2P trades here, I can't stress enough how much better it is to not wait for wallet sync. Other wallets feel like using the internet w/ a dialup modem.
It received an update today, and among other improvements you can now send by setting a fiat amount, a big quality of life feature. V2 also supports connecting to a regular Monero node, so if you want the no sync wait experience, pick LWS mode in connection settings. It's open source w/ reproducible builds, has built in Tor, and runs on Android and iOS w/ desktop in alpha.
https://magicgrants.org/2026/10/04/Skylight-Wallet-V2
Setting up Monero LWS gets a lil technical. I wrote up how to do it a while back, hope it helps anyone who wants to try the no sync wait awesomeness:
https://soulreaver.substack.com/p/skylight-monero-wallet-magic-grants
I set up my own XMR TX notifier, but Skylight comes w/ its own incoming TX notifications. Not a common offering for a mobile Monero wallet, and even rarer to see one that works reliably:
I know some will say other wallets offer "background sync". They do, but that never worked reliably for me. The goal isn't making your phone do the chain scan more frequently, that's a stopgap, inferior solution. The technically elegant solution is getting the phone out of scanning altogether.
Edited: Oct 5 06:41
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