Easiest Wallet for Grin Noobs?

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Family member wishing to buy Grin. I am facilitating the purchase and the family member would like to take custody of their coins … and this family member is not very technical.

Is there perhaps a mobile wallet (ideally open source or which has been vetted) which is well suited for a noob? All I want her to do (and all she needs to do for now) is to generate her own wallet seed phrase, and receive a slatepack and/or provide a receive address to which I can send her coins. Once she has written down her seed phrase I’ll recommend she deletes the app.

Alternatively please suggest the easiest solution for my relative,

Thanks

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Both Grim wallet and Grin++ wallet will do the job just fine. If she has the wallet App open, she can receive the transaction over tor and does not need to anything using slate-packs.
To receive you always need interaction, so only let her delete the App when she has written the seed phrase down and does not want or need to receive anymore Grin.

Perhaps explain to her that Grin is like a handshake between two people to transfer cash:
:handshake: :check_box_with_check: :check_box_with_check: = :money_with_wings:
True Peer to Peer Cash requires both parties to agree on a transaction, the blockchain needs to know nothing about this transaction apart from knowing that the money used as input (send) for the transaction equals the money used as output (received).

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Given this’ll be installed on Android which would you pick?

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At the moment I have a preference for Grim wallet on mobile, Grin++ sometimes feels heavy on older phones. Grin++ and grin-wallet are my preferred desktop picks for now.

I do suddenly remember some people encounter problems with tor using Grim wallet due to the Rust tor library being less well developed as the C++ version. Personally I did not yet encounter these problems.

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