Is Alby - Bitcoin Wallet for Lightning & Nostr safe?
Alby connects to Bitcoin Lightning nodes and sends page metadata, selected text, and account details to its own servers during normal wallet operations.
Alby is a Bitcoin Lightning wallet extension that reads page metadata (URL, title, description) and monitors text selections on all visited pages to detect Lightning payment strings and addresses. When using the Alby cloud connector, it communicates with api.getalby.com to fetch user account details including balance and identifier. For local node setups, it connects to a native companion app via native messaging to proxy LND or LNbits requests.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
Who publishes itAlby Inc. - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
Alby Inc. - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Alby contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- api.getalby.com
Alby sends data to api.getalby.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- getalby.com
Alby sends data to getalby.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.