The 12 Best Minimalist Wallets for 2021

The Cardslide Wallet from Secrid uses their popular Card Protector platform as its core. The Card Protector is a durable aluminum card holder that includes an integrated RFID blocker and a signature mechanism that pushes out up to six cards when activated. The newer Secrid Cardslide Wallet includes a plastic sliding tray for storing your bills, coins, keys, and other small items, allowing you to store all your essentials in one secure place. The tray is held in place by an elastic band that can also be used to tuck in extra bills if needed. It’s available in a variety of body and strap combinations for you to choose from.

The Distil Union Wally Sleeve is an ultra slim wallet designed to carry up to 6 cards and a few bills, and nothing else. A quick-retracting pull tab helps you retrieve the contents of its main compartment, while a quick access outer pocket provides easy access to your cash and frequently used cards. The pockets feature integrated magnets that ensure that nothing falls out, so you never have to worry that the Wally Sleeve might lose your essentials like an overstretched wallet or card holder would.

This ultra minimalist full grain leather wallet is a slimmer, cut down version of the brand’s cardholder design, the Port. The Craft & Lore Twobit Wallet is designed to carry your bare wallet essentials: some cash plus up to 6 cards. This Buck Brown version is made from traditional harness leather that is waxy and firmer to give the wallet a bit more structure and rigidity. It’s cut and stitched by hand by craftsmen in North Idaho, and meant to develop its own unique weathered look over time. The Twobit Wallet is a great and stylish way to elevate your minimalist wallet game with its simple yet elegant design.

The CountyComm Woven Dyneema Card Holder uses a waterproof and stretch-resistant sailcloth material that’s interwoven with Dyneema matrix fibers, making for a lightweight yet tough wallet at just 0.35 ounces. It’s the same material used on the sails of high-tech racing sailboats, and the matrix layout gives each wallet a unique look. Its design is as simple as it gets, featuring two slanted pockets on each side that can carry up to 12 cards and up to 10 folded bills. Double stitching and nylon piping ensure durability for this technical minimalist wallet.

The Ridge Wallet is a masterclass in durable, minimalist design. Two metal plates bound together with tough elastic bands hold up to 12 cards in a sleek, pocket-friendly package. Metal plates have the added benefit of RFID blocking technology for a more secure carry. If you happen to carry cash, you can use fold your bills and tuck them away under a sturdy stainless steel cash clip or flexible cash strap to suit your taste. Finally, a thumb cutout lets you easily push your cards out or quick retrieval. The Ridge also comes in other light yet strong materials, like titanium and carbon.

Bellroy’s Slim Sleeve proves that you can have the craftsmanship and heritage of a gorgeous leather bifold wallet while still keepings things slim and minimal enough for front pocket EDC use. From its quick-access slots to pull-tab card holder deployment the Bellroy Slim Sleeve has a number of quality of live improvements over the bulky back pocket wallets of yesteryear. And with its premium leather construction and painted edge details, this is a wallet that will grow on you as the years go by.

This ultra-slim yet robust bifold wallet features a transparent protective window on one side that's perfect for an ID or access card. Magpul has serious expertise in crafting quality polymer goods, and they put that knowledge to work when assembling their DAKA line of minimal EDC wallets. The DAKA Everyday Folding Card Holder offers a bit more capacity, especially for those of us who need room for emergency cash. But it retains the slim, bombproof, and lightweight polymer construction that made Magpul’s first offerings such community favorites.

The Pioneer Altitude wallet features their ultra-strong 10XD and 3PN materials in a format that’s friendly to international currencies, with an RFID option to boot. It makes a strong case for a lightweight, go-anywhere wallet that can endure the rigors of daily use, while being versatile enough for travel to other countries. Despite its slim and svelte design, this wallet lets you bring up to 12 cards combined. Behind the cards, there’s a section for bills, engineered to fit most currencies, regardless of which part of the world you’re in.

The Gun Deck features a folded design that uses just one piece of full-grain Italian veg tan leather to make up a unique and slim minimalist front pocket wallet. Its tuck closure and two pocket construction allows you to fit up to 10 payment and identification cards, as well as some folded cash. And if you want a look that’s different from the standard hues of brown that most leather wallets come with, you can choose from an extensive number of colors and stitching options to find a version of the Gun Deck that suits your fancy.

The A10 Adapt Wallet chassises are made in the USA using premium 6061 aerospace grade aluminum, which are then anodized in these new colors as an aesthetically striking protective upgrade. The use of aluminum keeps these wallets exceptionally durable yet light weight at 2.3 oz, while giving the added benefit of RFID protection to keep your cards secure. One side of the A10 wallet features a horizontal section for up to 4 cards, protected by a removable RFID-blocking aluminum plate. The cavity on the other side is left unshielded for use with ID credentials, key cards, and contactless payment cards. It also doubles as a low-profile container for emergency cash and flat objects like an SD card when stored behind a credit card.

The Vachetta Parliament features a design that lets you access all of your essential payment and ID cards without having to open it up. This makes it more convenient and faster to use than most leather wallets, while retaining the extra space that a bifold design provides. It looks great too thanks to the premium Italian leather used to build the wallet. And to top things off, Ekster also offers an optional Tracker Card powered by Chipolo Technology that will help you recover this wallet if you end up dropping it somewhere during your daily travels.

At just 20 grams in weight, the Hyperlite Mountain Gear Minimalist Wallet is quite literally that: a billfold wallet with all of the storage possibilities but none of the weight or bulk. Depending on your needs, you can slim things down to the essentials but also have room to carry extra IDs if and when you need to. The secret to its ultra lightweight design is the use of 150D Dyneema Composite Hybrid fabric, which also makes it very durable in the process too.