How to find my recovery phrase

NEVER share your recovery phrase or keys with anyone! If you do, they can steal your funds. Always save your recovery phrase in a safe place!

You can follow these simple steps to find your recovery phrase. This recovery phrase can be used to restore your funds in another wallet.

1

Open Cake Wallet

Open Cake Wallet, which has an existing wallet. If you do not have an existing wallet, then create one first.

2

Open Settings

On the home screen, tap the gear icon in the top right corner to open Settings.

3

Tap Recovery & Keys

In Settings, under Wallet settings, tap Recovery & Keys.

4

Authenticate

Cake Wallet warns you that secret information is about to be shown. Tap Show my Recovery Phrase & Keys, then enter your wallet PIN, password, or biometrics.

5

View your recovery phrase and keys

Once you have successfully authenticated, your recovery phrase and keys will be displayed. The Recovery Phrase tab shows your words, each with its position number — use Copy to copy the full phrase or Show QR to display it as a QR code.

Recovery Phrase tab showing the numbered words with Copy and Show QR buttons

Switch to the Keys tab to view your wallet's keys. The available tabs depend on the wallet's asset type — for example, Bitcoin wallets also include a Silent Payments tab, and Monero wallets include a Legacy tab.

Keys tab showing the wallet's keys

Your recovery phrase can be restored in other compatible wallets, depending on asset type. For example, your Monero recovery phrase can be restored in the official Monero GUI. By default, Cake Wallet creates Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets using a BIP39 recovery phrase, which can be restored in other BIP39-compatible wallets. Note that Electrum uses its own seed format, so a default Cake Wallet BIP39 recovery phrase will not restore directly in Electrum; only wallets you created in Cake Wallet using the Electrum seed type can be restored in Electrum.