Question: are there any iOS Lightning wallets that allow you to open channels manually, to nodes of your choice?
Eg what Blixt on Android allows you to do.
Discussion
Blue wallet I believe
Doesn't Blue Wallet use only custodial lightning?
I believe you can connect it to custodial if it’s running lndhub. I haven’t tried it but I remember that option.
There’s blixt on ios but on beta and on TestFlight
Ah! I looked for it but didn't find it as I'm not on TestFlight.
Zeus seems to allow you to.
Blixt on TestFlight. There is no 2nd best.
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Zeus is cool. But it's a way to control a lightning node remotely. It doesn't itself open channels.
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Hmm. So Blixt is basically an Lnd node on your phone? Interesting.
I feel like there’s too much restriction on the iPhone to allow that even though apps should be able to run in the background.
Interesting though.
Yes! Literally the lnd codebase. Breez does this too. Although last I tried it Breez was doing something weird so manually opened channels don't really work right.
You can make payments on your sues app too.
what’s the distinction?
I think Breez does
I remember that breez has low level command shell where you can do it
It does. But it doesn't seem to want to actually use manually opened lightning channels for payments. At least I didn't when I last tried that, about a year ago.
Well you can use Blixt on iOS. Breez lets you do manual channels as well.
Breez allows you to open channels
Blixt is on Test Flight for iOS. Not sure of any others in full release though.