Product record · Sparrow Wallet
Sparrow Wallet Desktop
Current Sparrow desktop Bitcoin wallet distributed across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Launch
- 2020-08-29
- Sales
- not_applicable
- Support
- supported
- Variants
- —
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-15
Material concerns
Custody and recovery assumptions
Active support, evidence verification, or product type is not a safety endorsement. Missing custody or recovery metadata is shown as unknown rather than inferred as self-custody.
- Custody model
- self_custody
- Key-management model
- desktop_local_seed_or_external_signer
- Independent recovery
- Unknown / requires evidence review
Lifecycle
Product timeline
Initial Sparrow Wallet release published
Product: Sparrow Wallet Desktop
Sparrow's source history identifies August 29, 2020 as the initial public release of the desktop wallet.
Password-removal crash window could leave Sparrow wallet database unreadable
Product: Sparrow Wallet Desktop
A Sparrow Wallet issue documented a narrow crash window during removal of a wallet password where the H2 wallet file could become unencrypted while seed or keystore state remained encrypted, causing Sparrow to reject the resulting inconsistent wallet database. Maintainer Craig Raw later said the race window appeared real but very small.
Sparrow 2.4.2 released with password-removal database corruption fix
Product: Sparrow Wallet Desktop
Sparrow 2.4.2 included the fix for possible database corruption during password removal, reordering database row and wallet-file encryption changes so a crash between the operations leaves the wallet in a recoverable state.
Sources