The 3 best apps for tracking your cryptographic wallet

The empirical rule for most people looking to invest their earnings is to invest money in quality, high dividend and other low-risk assets – perhaps an index fund – and forget the whole thing for at least some years.

But in the crazy-volatile world of cryptocurrencies, none of these rules applies. There are no low-risk activities. Prices swing up and down in two-digit percentages on a weekly basis. And a month in the crypt is like a year in the real world – something precious could now be completely gone in a few years.

That's why one of the most important app in a crypto-investor's life is a wallet app. True, it will ruin your life by making you check how your coins are doing every two minutes, but this is a small price to become crypto-rich, no?

The problem with wallet tracking apps is that there is no one who does the job perfectly. Some are versatile and beautiful but do not trace all the coins out there; others are updated quickly and keep track of all the coins but do not have all the options you might need. Here is an overview of the best apps out there, their strengths and weaknesses.

Blockfolio

Probably the most famous portfolio tracker out there exists only as a mobile app. It tracks a very large number of coins and has a myriad of options, including the control of the actual order backlog and on several exchanges for each currency, and a simple but usable news feed.

A particularly useful option are alerts when a currency reaches a certain price. Because many cryptographic exchanges do not fully support stop-loss orders, Blockfolio notices can be used for a quick cash-in or to reduce losses when the price starts to fall.

It is highly customizable: you can hide balances and view only percentage variations, block the app with a passcode, share screens and more. It's also one of the most visually appealing apps out there, with nice graphics and a choice between a night (dark) and day (white) UI mode.

Unfortunately, Blockfolio sometimes stumbles: it may be slow to list new coins, the prices shown may be inaccurate and its servers are sometimes unavailable.

You can get Blockfolio for Android and iPhone. The app is free.

Delta

If you want something similar to Blockfolio but a little faster and more reliable, Delta may be a good option for you. In my experience the prices on Delta have been a little more accurate and the app is very quick to list new coins.

Delta also has some clear options like a watchlist and the ability to keep track of several separate portfolios.

However, when it comes to tracking single coins, Delta does not have the versatility of Blockfolio; for example, you can not look at the actual order book of a currency on an exchange, just a graph of price changes over time and there are no volume indicators on its charts.

From the design point of view, Delta does not have the night mode option, but the user interface is predominantly dark and should work for the most part. If you, like me, are bothered by the waste of space in an app of this type, you can move to a minimized layout in "More Options" that will remove the empty space needed in the app's default view.

Delta is available for free on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Cryptopanic

Unlike Delta and Blockfolio, Cryptopanic is not a mobile app at all: it's a Web page, but it works perfectly on both desktop and mobile devices. It also has a double function; is a news aggregator with social functions such as voting and a portfolio tracker.

The monitoring part of the Cryptopanic portfolio is working incredibly well: look for a coin, enter the amount you own and add it to your wallet. You can not track prices on individual exchanges, but Cryptopanic is doing a good job in keeping track of prices, and it also has an "extended" display mode that shows the price of coins in different currencies: USD, ETH and BTC ( keeping track of the price in ETH is a feature that is lacking in most of the portfolio trackers).

Probably, the best part of Cryptopanic is not the portfolio tracker but the part of the app's News. It offers an excellent overview of the latest crypto-news, with the possibility of filtering for coins and relevance.

My favorite feature of Cryptopanic, however, is its minimalist and retro appearance that makes the app enjoyable on both mobile and desktop devices.

Cryptopanic is available on cryptopanic.com. It's free but has a Pro mode that lets you add custom news sources and disable existing news sources for $ 9 a month or $ 99 a year.