BitKit’s layout/wording is a little different from other mobile Lightning node setups. “Savings vs spending” balances (ie sats on-chain or in channels), for example, and “transfer balance” from one to the other, rather than “open a channel with this LSP”.

This seems like a promising way to onboard newer users to Lightning by using familiar concepts; I’m a fan in that regard.

It also has plenty of advanced features/settings, some of which go beyond my technical know how. But includes things like coin control, Bitcoin address types, channel (“connection”) view/management, electrum server selection, and a new(?) type of contact address/static code feature.

It’s based on slashtags which I know basically nothing about; perhaps it’s more interoperable than an “in-app only” Venmo user QR code, but just not widely adopted. I can’t pay the slashtag address from nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm for or Phoenix, for example.

Anyway, it’s a pretty cool project and fun play with.

I’ve been trying to open a channel to this BitKit wallet/node from my Alby Hub, though, with no luck yet. That would feel like a huge success lol