Digital Identity Wallet
A digital identity wallet is an app that lets its holder store credentials and attributes about themselves or their organisation, and choose exactly what to share with a relying party, keeping the holder in control instead of a central registry.
Digital identity wallet is the general category; the EUDI Wallet is the European Union's specific, regulated implementation of it, mandated for every member state under eIDAS 2.0. Wallets from other jurisdictions or private vendors follow the same holder-controlled model but different technical and legal rules, so a credential built for one wallet ecosystem does not automatically work in another unless both implement a shared standard such as OpenID4VCI or ISO 18013-5.
A digital identity wallet typically performs three functions: it receives credentials from an issuer over a protocol such as OpenID4VCI, stores them locally on the device rather than in a provider's cloud, and presents them to a verifier over OpenID4VP or an equivalent protocol, disclosing only the attributes that request asks for. Which functions a given wallet exposes and how strongly it protects the private keys behind each credential depend on the wallet solution and the assurance level it targets, from a simple personal app to a wallet built for regulatory compliance and audited key storage.
The distinction between a personal digital identity wallet and an organization wallet is in who the holder represents: a person storing their own attributes, or a company holding credentials about itself and acting through employees it authorises. Both rely on the same underlying wallet architecture, credential formats and presentation protocols, just configured for a different kind of holder.
Is a digital identity wallet the same thing as the EUDI Wallet?
Not quite. Digital identity wallet is the general category of holder-controlled apps that store and present credentials. The EUDI Wallet is one specific, regulated implementation of that category, mandated for every EU member state under eIDAS 2.0. Other digital identity wallets exist outside the EU, built by other jurisdictions or private vendors, following the same model under different rules.