Coinomi is a well-known multi-currency wallet that supports dozens of cryptocurrencies. It’s best known as a mobile app for iPhone and Android, although it also offers a desktop version that never quite reached the same level of popularity.
Because Coinomi has been around for years, there’s a good chance you might have used it back in the day to store some crypto. Now, with prices changing and old coins becoming extremely valuable, you may be trying to recover them – but you’re not sure where your wallet data or recovery phrase ended up.
If that sounds like you, the best way to track them down is to scan your computer with an application called Treasure Hunter. I will also cover a manual method later on.
How to automatically scan your computer for Coinomi wallets
Treasure Hunter scans your drives for wallet files and it can find them even if they’re hidden, renamed, or stored in obscure locations. It also recognizes the database fragments left behind by the desktop version of Coinomi, wherever they ended up on your drive. It can even find seed phrases!
All you need to do is point Treasure Hunter to the drive you want to scan, and it does the rest. It works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and can handle just about any storage device – hard drives, solid-state drives, USB keys, SD cards, even old CDs or DVDs.
If you’ve been wondering whether your lost crypto might still be sitting somewhere on your computer or an old backup, Treasure Hunter is the quickest way to find out the answer.
The manual way
If you would rather not download any software, you can look for your Coinomi wallet data yourself. Just be aware that the manual method is slow, frustrating, and easy to mess up. Finding files buried deep in your system isn’t fun – and if you’ve renamed, moved, or zipped your wallet, it can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Manually finding Coinomi wallet data can also be tricky – especially on mobile devices. For the mobile version, you’d typically need to jailbreak your phone to get access to system files, which is complex and not recommended unless you really know what you’re doing.
A more practical approach is to look for your recovery (seed) phrase. Coinomi asks you to write it down when creating your wallet. It’s a list of words that looks something like this:
merge truck obtain half slim intact emerge badge rare neutral limit jaguar together dragon border color call hour curious today obey sister quantum grass
If you can find this phrase – perhaps written on paper, saved in a text file, or backed up somewhere – you can easily import it into Coinomi or another wallet app and restore access to your coins.
If you used the desktop version of Coinomi, search your computer for files ending with the .wallet extension. Also
search your computer for a folder named Coinomi and, inside it, look for a subfolder called wallets.
