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Air-gapped, open source BIP39 calculator

Don't trust.
Get in control.

Self-custody is all about keeping a secret safe. Don't trust a black box to handle it for you. Create the secret yourself, offline, using randomness you can see with your own eyes and verify at every step.

Open-source firmware · Engineered in Spain

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What Seedmate is not

It is not another hardware wallet. It has no radio, no USB data link, no companion app. It cannot reach a PC, a phone or the internet — by construction, not by setting.

It doesn't replace your hardware wallet. It fixes the part your hardware wallet leaves to chance.

What Seedmate is

A standalone BIP39 calculator you hold in your hand. It turns dice rolls, coin flips, playing cards or words picked by yourself into a valid mnemonic, displaying every detail for manual verification.

And much more: seedXOR, BIP85 child seeds, Shamir, Obfuscation, Triple mnemonics.

Stateless: nothing is stored. Power it off and the device is empty.

The gap nobody covers

Self-custody is not a device. It's keeping a secret safe.

Safe from loss, and safe from prying eyes. Most of that work happens outside your hardware wallet — and that's exactly where people get hurt.

RISK 01

Entropy you didn't see

If a device generates your seed, you're trusting that its randomness is real. Wallets have shipped weak entropy before, and the funds were guessable long before anyone noticed.

RISK 02

A secret that touched a screen

A photo, a text file, a hot wallet import — once the words have been online, no amount of cold storage brings them back. The exposure already happened.

RISK 03

Backups that betray you

Redundant copies protect you from loss and expose you to theft at the same time. One plain-text copy found by the wrong person is the whole secret.

Four operations

Generate. Mix. Split. Obfuscate.

Everything happens on the device, in your hands, with the screen facing you. Inputs and outputs are plain BIP39 mnemonics, so every wallet you own understands them.

GENERATE

Randomness from the physical world

Roll dice, flip coins, draw poker cards, or pick words yourself. Typing words is the most transparent method there is: you pull 24 slips of paper blindly, and Seedmate only adjusts the final word so the checksum is valid, showing details of the operation. The other 23 stay exactly as you picked them.

  • All dice conversion methods, use it to double check other wallet results offline:
    • Raw entropy, easy to verify manually
    • String hash "1-6" (Most manufacturers)
    • String hash "0-5" (Keystone)
  • Results are equivalent to the Ian Coleman BIP39 tool and Bitcoin Seed tool, with one caveat: in raw entropy mode, if there are excess bits (dice/cards), Ian coleman discards the first bits but Seedmate discards last bits to maintain validity of all words calculated during the process. Use online tools for dummy tests only.
  • 12 or 24 words — 24 recommended
MIX

Combine entropy sources with XOR

Don't want to rely on a single source of randomness? Generate several mnemonics by different methods and XOR them together. The result carries the combined entropy of all of them, and remains a standard BIP39 mnemonic.

XOR is reversible: A ⊕ B = C, so C ⊕ B = A. That property is also what makes the recovery schemes below possible.

XOR is compatible with other devices and can be tested here Bitcoin Seed tool XOR. Use it for test only.

Derive

BIP85 child seeds

Don't want to manage multiple physical backups for different wallets? Use a single master mnemonic to deterministically generate entirely new, independent 12 or 24-word seed phrases. Each child seed acts as a standalone wallet. If one of these derived seeds is ever compromised, your master seed and all other child seeds remain mathematically isolated and perfectly secure. This means you only ever need to safely secure one master backup. Results are fully deterministic and compliant with the standard BIP85 specification.

Use cases: hot wallets, family wallets, test-nets, compartmentalization, etc

SPLIT

Shamir's Secret Sharing, over BIP39

Split your secret into up to 9 shares and use any k of them to rebuild it. Every share is itself a valid BIP39 mnemonic, so a share found alone reveals nothing and can even hold decoy funds.

  • Split into m parts, m ≤ 9 · merge with k parts, 2 ≤ k ≤ 6
  • A free offline HTML tool mirrors every function, so losing the device never locks you out. Test everything with dummy mnemonics. If it needs to be used for actual recovery do it strictly offline => how to setup Tails safe environment.
OBFUSCATE

Backups that don't read as backups

Apply a reversible transformation to your seed and store the result instead. Whoever finds it holds a perfectly valid mnemonic — just not yours. Fund it with a small amount and it becomes a canary: if those coins ever move, your physical backup has been found. Be careful using complex setups, sometime simpler is better (e.g. use invisible ink)

  • Circular bit shift, left or right
  • NOT — negate the entropy bits
  • ADD / SUB — shift every word by n positions
Make it Triple

Matryoshka mnemonic

This structure allows you to take a valid 24-word master mnemonic and split it into two valid 12-word mnemonics, giving you a total of three working seeds. You can then keep the two halves physically separated and even place decoy funds on the 12-word shares to hand over under duress, or to serve as an early-warning "canary" if the funds move. To access the main wallet, simply enter both 12-word parts in the correct order (there are only two possible combinations).

Hardware & firmware

Built to be inspected

Two boards: a custom processor board around a PIC32, plus a commercial display and SD module. Firmware written from scratch in C, fully open source.

Seedmate feature 1 Seedmate feature 2 Seedmate feature 3
PIC32 MCU The processor running the custom C firmware.
Navigation Keypad Push buttons for navigating menus and entering entropy.
Power Switch Physical ON/OFF slide switch.
ICSP Header Programming and debugging.
Status LEDs Power and MCU status indicators.
Display Footprint Mounting area for the display and SD.
Power Conditioning Ensures stable and clean power.
AAA battery holder Power source.
SD SD card slot.
Display TFT color display 128*160 pixels
Display connector For display power and control.
SD connector For SD control.
Connectivity
None. Air-gapped by design
Storage
Stateless — clears on power off
Processor
PIC32, custom board
SD compatibility
Intentionally obfuscated, no compatibility.
Export
QR standard & compact, SD card
QR compatibility
QR: Krux, SeedSigner and others
Power
AAA batteries, 15+ hours
Firmware
Open source, C from scratch
Standard
BIP39 — works with every BIP39 wallet.
Colours
Orange, black, white, green, blue, yellow
In stock

Seedmate

Air-gapped BIP39 calculator. One device, four operations, no accounts and no software to install.

€49.00
Europe shipping €49.00 Worldwide shipping €58.00
Buy with BTC/⚡ (e-mail)
  • SD card included
  • 4 dice included
  • AAA batteries included
  • Offline HTML recovery tool, free download
  • Recommended: anonymous payment and delivery options
  • BTC & crypto accepted
Worked example

An XOR 2-of-3 scheme, in three places

Your seed S becomes three shares. Any two rebuild it. Any one, on its own, reveals nothing at all — so a single compromised location costs you nothing, and a single lost location costs you nothing either.

Location 1 · Home safe

Two shares together rebuild S.

Location 2 · Parents' house

Any pair works. No pair is special.

Location 3 · Bank box

Lose a location, keep your coins.

Compare with a passphrase: seed + passphrase is a 2-of-2 scheme.
Lose either half and the funds are gone. There is no redundancy in it.

Read the self-custody checklist

Guides

Learn the thing, then buy the tool

Everything Seedmate does, explained in the open — including how to verify our results against tools we don't control.

Questions

Before you order

Do I still need a hardware wallet?

Yes. Seedmate doesn't sign transactions and doesn't hold funds. It handles the part before and around your wallet: creating the secret, combining it, splitting it, and storing it in a form that survives both loss and discovery.

Can Seedmate ever go online?

No. There is no radio and no data connection of any kind. The SD card exists to move mnemonics in and out during an operation — wipe it afterwards and keep your backups analog. SeedQR codes are intended for compatible wallets, never scan a funded seed with your phone.

What happens if I lose the device?

Nothing, as long as you keep your shares. XOR schemes work with any other device that implements SeedXOR. For Shamir, download this offline HTML tool that reproduces every function — test it with dummy wallets. If you need to run it for real, setup an air-gapped machine (see Tails), Shamir is for advanced users only.

Can I verify the results against something else?

Please do. Most operations are equivalent to the Ian Coleman BIP39 tool, Bitcoin Seed tool, and other wallets. Seedmate provides all existing methods to convert from dice to mnemonic, even the outsiders. Never put a funded seed online, neither a seed where you plan to put funds, use those tools for test only.

Does Seedmate store my seed?

It can't. The device is stateless: cut the power and everything is gone. SD card is intended for convenience and should be wiped afterwards. There is no internal memory holding secrets between sessions.

12 or 24 words?

Twelve is considered fine. But I would stick to 24 words for a little extra security.

What is a Triple mnemonic?

It is a special 24 word mnemonic than can be splitted in two 12 words mnemonics that are also valid. It can be used to store you secret separately in two parts, and each part can hold decoy funds.

Can I use other SD cards?

Yes, any SD card of that size (or with adapter) will work. If you really want to store your seeds on SD for the medium term, use a high quality memory card (not the one that ships with Seedmate) and make sure you have other analog backups, don't rely only on it. And take into account that any card written on a Seedmate will overwrite its file system and other information will be lost.

Was AI used for FW development?

Yes, some parts of the code were AI assisted in writing, approximately 40%. All code was human reviewed and tested.

Do you keep a database of your clients?

No. We only collect the necessary information required for shipping and billing purposes at the time of purchase. We do not store this data long-term, and we do not maintain a permanent database of our customers to ensure maximum privacy and security.

Where is it manufactured? where does it ship from?

Boards are manufactured in China, then assembled together and programmed in Spain. Shipping from Spain.