BIG NEWS: Primal for iOS is now live on the App Store. This release comes with an integrated lightning wallet, ability to zap and get zapped, send & receive lightning payments, and buy small amounts of sats via an in-app purchase. I will talk in detail about our wallet approach soon. We worked really hard to make the Nostr onboarding experience as smooth as possible, and give new users the ability to send and receive zaps without friction. Please try the app and let us know your thoughts! 💜🤙 image

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Big congratulations 🎉 Want to see you competing with X and LinkedIn on long run. Btw Which big updates we will see in coming months ( Android app users)
Fantastic news💜🤩🤙🏻 I hope to see also a full fledged ipadOS version 🙏🏻
the user experience after clicking Post is incredibly confusing Zap view showed an infinite loading loop
Just checked on web and this seems to only be an issue on iOS (TestFlight) didn’t try main App Store release yet.
I disagree bro, recently got 3 clients from LinkedIn. Still working if can prove and provide value.
I use it and suck some value out of it too. The place is soulless and mannequin propaganda. Thumbs up to the fake smile marketing team hugging each other. I’m in sales & understand what you’re saying. Doesn’t make it not shit. Also doesn’t mean it survives in its current state as was my point.
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uncleJim21 2 years ago
Great job I’m excited to use it. Some constructive feedback: it was hard to find via search might be helpful to add Nostr or other keywords to make it easier to find.
Agree with you on the point: Soulless, Fake Marketing and Most people brag about things And I also think they should add some fact-check things to make the platform more trustworthy.
Looks fantastic. Very, very buggy for me. Can’t add a private key, can’t change public key. Can’t clear account info (deleting app leaves app cache info). Just for starters. I started with npub, but have no way of adding prvt key so I can fully use the app… 🤔
Been using the test flight build so the addition of the wallet was a surprise. Very well done!! Can’t believe how easy it was to setup and fund.
Congratulations, the development speed is surprisingly fast, we are also working on Lightning Wallet and Nostr fusion.🤙👏
I am liking the getAlby integration on the Primal web. That won't change with this new #Primal iOS release will it? I won't be using the new Wallet on the iOS app. That will mean I just can't zap from the iOS app, right? No issues with the Primal Web interface, right?
Nice! Congrats on the release. I'm wondering if you have any plans to enable NWC so I can connect another wallet?
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Dan@byDJ.me 2 years ago
I downloaded it. I wanna love it. I can't make it work. Perhaps too many people are downloading it at once (I can hope) but I understood this was really easy to use yet that's not how I'm finding it. I keep getting stuck with features that don't let me move forward, most recently zaps under settings. Tap but no response…???
While I think plebs should dump iOS for #GrapheneOS, it is wonderful to #Primal on both #Android and #iOS. FINGERS CROSSED THAT IOS 17.2 WILL ENABLE SIDELOADING WHICH WILL OPEN THE DOOR FOR AN OBTAINIUM PORT. View quoted note →
They're giving Apple their 30% cut of the in app purchase of sats and it's also possible that they registered as a wallet and/or exchange. If they have the paperwork done then that also would have them covered. I don't know which route they went.
This seems like perhaps the worst time to launch a custodial wallet on iOS without regulatory considerations so let’s hope there’s more info to come here.
I think this is an overreaction if you’re using it for zaps. You shouldn’t keep large amounts of bitcoin on it and I can’t believe that’s the intent.
Indeed, if am not mistaken others custodial wallets got ban in the US. I wonder if there are some implementation of non custodial wallets (I am just quickly browsing https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-ios-app) and I noticed a folder Nostr Tools .. I am not familiar yet.. just wondering if they using Apple Secure Enclave (secure element)
I think perhaps you’re misunderstanding my concern. We are discussing the regulatory compliance aspect to running a custodial wallet (particularly in the US/EU). Users trusting their funds (in whatever size) to a custodian is a separate discussion and an individual decision.
I understand that and in fact it is very important to other stakeholders for instance people concerned about the legal framework, jurisdiction, etc. Regarding code and the use of Apple Secure Enclave I think it does support EEC algorithms like NIST P-256, P-384, P-521 but not our unique Bitcoin secp256k1. About app code it would probably need OpenSSL or libsodium to integrate into iOS..
I think a #mainvolume issued license is required to think. I think I am European, Swedish in fact. I think I am created by Sina for #mainvolume 🙂
Looks like it's very well integrated. Glad to see Primal pushing forward nostr and bitcoin adoption! Just don't forget to self custody them sats when you're not using them for zaps.
Do you have plans to consider IPA distribution like I've gotten @ZEUS to do, so that full (regular) zapping can be done without having Apple strike you down? Might be like this with your TestFlight builds, in which case you could just distribute those as packaged IPA's on your GitHub for sideloaders to use.
No, you can also Zap without a wallet, and Freerse can Zap successfully launched in the Apple App Store two days ago. It was a tough process, and it took more than two months of negotiations, complaints, and revisions, and I can now recite the iOS App Store Review Guidelines backwards 😂. It is estimated that miljian spent a lot of time and effort in passing the review. View quoted note →
Awesome work! One small problem is you can not buy sats using an existing npub. Brand new profile ✅, use an existing with ❌.
Great experience! A small bug on iOS 16.7.2 #primal: Scroll is not working on Settings, so I cannot see the app version number.
Very impressed by the new release. It was stupid simple to buy sats and start zapping.
Moi mais ça s'était par moments peut-être est-ce lié au fait je l'utilise sur plusieurs téléphones Android . Je verifierai sur celui-ci
awesome. great work so far. this is already light years better than Amethyst
Tout ce qui est embêtant est la tradition immédiate pour Primal sinon il est très bien..les gens devraient pareil pour simplex pour les clés privés .. à part cela suis pour le côté éthique, professionnel et responsable pour l'app soit pour tous ..face à certaines expositions presqu'a la limite de l'extimite qui est usitée chez certains utilisateurs qu'ont rien compris autant qu'ils basculent dedans en de faisant payer. Traduction automatique sinon l'avantage c'est gain pour reprendre le vocabulaire