Ledger Nano S Wallet vs MetaMask Comparison

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About

Ledger Nano S Wallet is a hardware wallet, a flagship product of the Ledger company, that has been in the industry since 2014. More than 1.5 mln units were sold across the world.
MetaMask is an open-source multi-cryptocurrency wallet and a gateway to Ethereum-based decentralized applications. As the wallet is made for work with the Ethereum blockchain, it's understood that it supports only Ether and ERC20 tokens. This wallet is designed to let users control their data and assets at the fullest and doesn't store data and assets of its users. MetaMask is a mobile application but those who need a desktop version can use a MetaMask browser extension. It is available for Chrome, Brave, and Firefox browsers. 

Founding Date

2019 2016

Country

France Switzerland

Languages

English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Romanian English

Wallet type

Hardware wallet Software wallet

Storage type

Cold wallet Hot wallet

Private keys

Available Available

Available coins

66 - Bitcoin (BTC), IOTA (MIOTA), Tezos (XTZ), Ethereum Classic (ETC), NEO (NEO), VeChain (VET), Qtum (QTUM), Lisk (LSK), ICON (ICX), Ontology (ONT), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Zcash (ZEC), Nano (NANO), Wanchain (WAN), Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin Private (BTCP), Waves (WAVES), Zilliqa (ZIL), Decred (DCR), Aeternity (AE), Komodo (KMD), Aion (AION), DigiByte (DGB), Ark (ARK), PIVX (PIVX), Factom (FCT), Elastos (ELA), Zcoin (XZC), Particl (PART), Kin (KIN), Horizen (ZEN), POA Network (POA), GameCredits (GAME), Vertcoin (VTC), Ubiq (UBQ), High Performance Blockchain (HPB), Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), Groestlcoin (GRS), Peercoin (PPC), Ripple (XRP), Binance Coin (BNB), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin SV (BSV), Cardano (ADA), Cosmos (ATOM), Dash (DASH), EOS (EOS), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Monero (XMR), NEM (XEM), Stellar (XLM), Tron (TRX), Polkadot (DOT), BitTorrent (BTT), Terra (LUNA), Crypto.com Coin (CRO), Binance USD (BUSD), Kusama (KSM), Algorand (ALGO), NEAR Protocol (NEAR), Celo (CELO), Energy Web Token (EWT), Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR), Solana (SOL), TomoChain (TOMO) 181 - Basic Attention Token (BAT), Ethereum Classic (ETC), VeChain (VET), OmiseGO (OMG), Qtum (QTUM), ICON (ICX), Bytom (BTM), Populous (PPT), Wanchain (WAN), DigixDAO (DGD), Waves (WAVES), Zilliqa (ZIL), RChain (RHOC), Aeternity (AE), Status (SNT), 0x (ZRX), Loopring (LRC), Aion (AION), Golem (GNT), IOST (IOST), KuCoin Shares (KCS), Waltonchain (WTC), aelf (ELF), Centrality (CENNZ), Dragonchain (DRGN), Substratum (SUB), QASH (QASH), Veritaseum (VERI), Mithril (MITH), Gas (GAS), Elastos (ELA), Voyager Token (VGX), FunFair (FUN), Nebulas (NAS), Nucleus Vision (NCASH), Revain (REV), WAX (WAX), SALT (SALT), Power Ledger (POWR), Storm (STORM), Mixin (XIN), Enigma (ENG), Storj (STORJ), TenX (PAY), Cindicator (CND), Dentacoin (DCN), Civic (CVC), Iconomi (ICN), SingularityNET (AGI), Matrix AI Network (MAN), POA Network (POA), GameCredits (GAME), Dent (DENT), Quantstamp (QSP), Gnosis (GNO), iExec RLC (RLC), Decentraland (MANA), Polymath (POLY), Cube (CUBEAUTO), Po.et (POE), Genaro Network (GNX), Loom Network (LOOM), NULS (NULS), Dynamic Trading Rights (DTR), Time New Bank (TNB), Aragon (ANT), Enjin Coin (ENJ), High Performance Blockchain (HPB), Raiden Network Token (RDN), Metal (MTL), Santiment Network Token (SAN), Pundi X (NPXS), SIRIN LABS Token (SRN), Dropil (DROP), Bluzelle (BLZ), SmartMesh (SMT), Genesis Vision (GVT), THETA (THETA), Pillar (PLR), Paypex (PAYX), Gifto (GTO), PayPie (PPP), BLOCKv (VEE), AirSwap (AST), DEW (DEW), Bibox Token (BIX), OST (OST), ETHLend (LEND), IoT Chain (ITC), DATA (DTA), Scry.info (DDD), Ruff (RUFF), Ripio Credit Network (RCN), SONM (SNM), Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), AdEx (ADX), SophiaTX (SPHTX), SingularDTV (SNGLS), Eidoo (EDO), UTRUST (UTK), Ambrosus (AMB), Edgeless (EDG), EvenCoin (EVN), WePower (WPR), SpankChain (SPANK), CRYPTO20 (C20), Telcoin (TEL), Crypterium (CRPT), Oyster Pearl (PRL), MediShares (MDS), AppCoins (APPC), USD Coin (USDC), Binance Coin (BNB), EOS (EOS), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), Tron (TRX), LKSCOIN, Polkadot (DOT), Matic Network (MATIC), renBTC (RENBTC), NXM (NXM), Terra (LUNA), Ampleforth (AMPL), xDai (STAKE), Nectar (NEC), sUSD (SUSD), Zap (ZAP), Monolith (TKN), Metronome (MET), YAM v1 (YAM), bitCNY (BITCNY), Hydro Protocol (HOT), Auctus (AUC), Loopring [NEO] (LRN), Compound Dai (CDAI), Compound SAI (CSAI), Compound USD Coin (CUSDC), pTokens BTC (PBTC), Compound Ether (CETH), PieDAO BTC++ (BTC++), Compound Basic Attention Token (CBAT), Compound 0x (CZRX), Compound Wrapped BTC (CWBTC), Compound USDT (CUSDT), Compound Augur (CREP), sBTC (SBTC), XinFin Network (XDC), Crypto.com Coin (CRO), UNUS SED LEO (LEO), Huobi Token (HT), Binance USD (BUSD), Celsius (CEL), Algorand (ALGO), OKB (OKB), TrueUSD (TUSD), HUSD (HUSD), Paxos Standard (PAX), Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), ABBC Coin (ABBC), Energy Web Token (EWT), Quant (QNT), ZB Token (ZB), SwissBorg (CHSB), DxChain Token (DX), The Midas Touch Gold (TMTG), IoTeX (IOTX), RSK Infrastructure Framework (RIF), TomoChain (TOMO), Kleros (PNK), Chiliz (CHZ), Uquid Coin (UQC), Ankr (ANKR), Velas (VLX), IRISnet (IRIS), Hive (HIVE), Energi (NRG), Unibright (UBT), WAX (WAXP), Fantom (FTM), NAGA Coin

Security

No data Personal

Anonymity

No data High

Ease of use

No data Easy

Has attached card

No data no

Has trading facilities

No data No data

Has vouchers and offers

No data No data

Features

No data Hierarchical Deterministic, Open Source
About
Ledger Nano S Wallet is a hardware wallet, a flagship product of the Ledger company, that has been in the industry since 2014. More than 1.5 mln units were sold across the world.
MetaMask is an open-source multi-cryptocurrency wallet and a gateway to Ethereum-based decentralized applications. As the wallet is made for work with the Ethereum blockchain, it's understood that it supports only Ether and ERC20 tokens. This wallet is designed to let users control their data and assets at the fullest and doesn't store data and assets of its users. MetaMask is a mobile application but those who need a desktop version can use a MetaMask browser extension. It is available for Chrome, Brave, and Firefox browsers. 
Founding Date Founding Date 2019 Founding Date 2016
Country Country France Country Switzerland
Languages Languages English, Japanese, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Romanian Languages English
Wallet type Wallet type Hardware wallet Wallet type Software wallet
Storage type Storage type Cold wallet Storage type Hot wallet
Private keys Private keys Available Private keys Available
Available coins Available coins 66 - Bitcoin (BTC), IOTA (MIOTA), Tezos (XTZ), Ethereum Classic (ETC), NEO (NEO), VeChain (VET), Qtum (QTUM), Lisk (LSK), ICON (ICX), Ontology (ONT), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Zcash (ZEC), Nano (NANO), Wanchain (WAN), Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin Private (BTCP), Waves (WAVES), Zilliqa (ZIL), Decred (DCR), Aeternity (AE), Komodo (KMD), Aion (AION), DigiByte (DGB), Ark (ARK), PIVX (PIVX), Factom (FCT), Elastos (ELA), Zcoin (XZC), Particl (PART), Kin (KIN), Horizen (ZEN), POA Network (POA), GameCredits (GAME), Vertcoin (VTC), Ubiq (UBQ), High Performance Blockchain (HPB), Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), Groestlcoin (GRS), Peercoin (PPC), Ripple (XRP), Binance Coin (BNB), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin SV (BSV), Cardano (ADA), Cosmos (ATOM), Dash (DASH), EOS (EOS), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Monero (XMR), NEM (XEM), Stellar (XLM), Tron (TRX), Polkadot (DOT), BitTorrent (BTT), Terra (LUNA), Crypto.com Coin (CRO), Binance USD (BUSD), Kusama (KSM), Algorand (ALGO), NEAR Protocol (NEAR), Celo (CELO), Energy Web Token (EWT), Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR), Solana (SOL), TomoChain (TOMO) Available coins 181 - Basic Attention Token (BAT), Ethereum Classic (ETC), VeChain (VET), OmiseGO (OMG), Qtum (QTUM), ICON (ICX), Bytom (BTM), Populous (PPT), Wanchain (WAN), DigixDAO (DGD), Waves (WAVES), Zilliqa (ZIL), RChain (RHOC), Aeternity (AE), Status (SNT), 0x (ZRX), Loopring (LRC), Aion (AION), Golem (GNT), IOST (IOST), KuCoin Shares (KCS), Waltonchain (WTC), aelf (ELF), Centrality (CENNZ), Dragonchain (DRGN), Substratum (SUB), QASH (QASH), Veritaseum (VERI), Mithril (MITH), Gas (GAS), Elastos (ELA), Voyager Token (VGX), FunFair (FUN), Nebulas (NAS), Nucleus Vision (NCASH), Revain (REV), WAX (WAX), SALT (SALT), Power Ledger (POWR), Storm (STORM), Mixin (XIN), Enigma (ENG), Storj (STORJ), TenX (PAY), Cindicator (CND), Dentacoin (DCN), Civic (CVC), Iconomi (ICN), SingularityNET (AGI), Matrix AI Network (MAN), POA Network (POA), GameCredits (GAME), Dent (DENT), Quantstamp (QSP), Gnosis (GNO), iExec RLC (RLC), Decentraland (MANA), Polymath (POLY), Cube (CUBEAUTO), Po.et (POE), Genaro Network (GNX), Loom Network (LOOM), NULS (NULS), Dynamic Trading Rights (DTR), Time New Bank (TNB), Aragon (ANT), Enjin Coin (ENJ), High Performance Blockchain (HPB), Raiden Network Token (RDN), Metal (MTL), Santiment Network Token (SAN), Pundi X (NPXS), SIRIN LABS Token (SRN), Dropil (DROP), Bluzelle (BLZ), SmartMesh (SMT), Genesis Vision (GVT), THETA (THETA), Pillar (PLR), Paypex (PAYX), Gifto (GTO), PayPie (PPP), BLOCKv (VEE), AirSwap (AST), DEW (DEW), Bibox Token (BIX), OST (OST), ETHLend (LEND), IoT Chain (ITC), DATA (DTA), Scry.info (DDD), Ruff (RUFF), Ripio Credit Network (RCN), SONM (SNM), Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), AdEx (ADX), SophiaTX (SPHTX), SingularDTV (SNGLS), Eidoo (EDO), UTRUST (UTK), Ambrosus (AMB), Edgeless (EDG), EvenCoin (EVN), WePower (WPR), SpankChain (SPANK), CRYPTO20 (C20), Telcoin (TEL), Crypterium (CRPT), Oyster Pearl (PRL), MediShares (MDS), AppCoins (APPC), USD Coin (USDC), Binance Coin (BNB), EOS (EOS), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), Tron (TRX), LKSCOIN, Polkadot (DOT), Matic Network (MATIC), renBTC (RENBTC), NXM (NXM), Terra (LUNA), Ampleforth (AMPL), xDai (STAKE), Nectar (NEC), sUSD (SUSD), Zap (ZAP), Monolith (TKN), Metronome (MET), YAM v1 (YAM), bitCNY (BITCNY), Hydro Protocol (HOT), Auctus (AUC), Loopring [NEO] (LRN), Compound Dai (CDAI), Compound SAI (CSAI), Compound USD Coin (CUSDC), pTokens BTC (PBTC), Compound Ether (CETH), PieDAO BTC++ (BTC++), Compound Basic Attention Token (CBAT), Compound 0x (CZRX), Compound Wrapped BTC (CWBTC), Compound USDT (CUSDT), Compound Augur (CREP), sBTC (SBTC), XinFin Network (XDC), Crypto.com Coin (CRO), UNUS SED LEO (LEO), Huobi Token (HT), Binance USD (BUSD), Celsius (CEL), Algorand (ALGO), OKB (OKB), TrueUSD (TUSD), HUSD (HUSD), Paxos Standard (PAX), Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), ABBC Coin (ABBC), Energy Web Token (EWT), Quant (QNT), ZB Token (ZB), SwissBorg (CHSB), DxChain Token (DX), The Midas Touch Gold (TMTG), IoTeX (IOTX), RSK Infrastructure Framework (RIF), TomoChain (TOMO), Kleros (PNK), Chiliz (CHZ), Uquid Coin (UQC), Ankr (ANKR), Velas (VLX), IRISnet (IRIS), Hive (HIVE), Energi (NRG), Unibright (UBT), WAX (WAXP), Fantom (FTM), NAGA Coin
Security Security No data Security Personal
Anonymity Anonymity No data Anonymity High
Ease of use Ease of use No data Ease of use Easy
Has attached card Has attached card No data Has attached card no
Has trading facilities Has trading facilities No data Has trading facilities No data
Has vouchers and offers Has vouchers and offers No data Has vouchers and offers No data
Features Features No data Features Hierarchical Deterministic, Open Source

Social

Website

shop.ledger.com metamask.io

Twitter

@Ledger @metamask_io
Website Website shop.ledger.com Website metamask.io
Twitter Twitter @Ledger Twitter @metamask_io

Advantages

- Security and safety - The possibility to verify and sign payments - Variety of assets - Ease of use - Flexible fees - Good functionality - Wide range of supported tokens

Disadvantages

- Ledger is a paid product - Can be difficult for beginners - Not fully private

Rating

User rating User rating 4 / 5 4 user review User rating 2.5 / 5 21 user review
Cryptogeek rating Cryptogeek rating 4.2 / 5 Cryptogeek rating 5 / 5
Advantages Advantages - Security and safety - The possibility to verify and sign payments - Variety of assets Advantages - Ease of use - Flexible fees - Good functionality - Wide range of supported tokens
Disadvantages Disadvantages - Ledger is a paid product - Can be difficult for beginners Disadvantages - Not fully private

Ledger Nano S Wallet user rating is 4, based on 4 user reviews. MetaMask user rating is 2.5, based on 21 user reviews.

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Based on user reviews only, Ledger Nano S Wallet is rated 4 with 4 user reviews, while MetaMask is rated 2.5 with 21 user reviews.

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