Alternative to Zashi

Is there al alternative to access Zec using Zashi seed phrase in a different Wallet?

My question is from my experience with Ledger Live where I wasn’t able to withdraw Zec. I finally was able to withdraw by means of restoring with my 24 seed Phrase from Ledger to Trezor.
I send all my funds to Zashi right after and from there everything went well.
But what happens if Zashi gets corrupted like Ledger Live? Is there a way I can retrieve my Zec from Zashi in another wallet?


My other Experiences are as follows:
Please check if I need to learn more and let me know your input.

Shielded Zec amount and transactions are not 100% shielded.
Unless you make a transaction to send all funds to a shielded address within the same Zashi wallet. only then, it will be fully shielded.

Note:
No CEX will accept shielded addresses to send to, meaning private transactions can only be possible sending from Zashi to another Zashi wallet or from Zashi to any CEX.

Note: Hardware wallets refuse to be installed using a VPN.

Summary:
Privacy of Zcash is only within Zashi Wallet (or a full node wallet).

To Trade Zec, first create a Zashi wallet. Shield and Consolidate within the Zashi wallet then send to CEX.

To withdraw Zec from CEX, Zec addresses to send must be transparent ( unshielded) address for the send process to succeed.

Pls give me your input. Thank you!

Zashi implements the ZIP-315 practices. You should be able to restore a Zashi wallet in any other wallet that respects ZIP-315. I think Zingo! does. Is this accurate @zancas?

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Yes and no, the good thing is most CEX don’t care if you send directly from your shielded address to the exchange. Only Binance has extra “TEX” address to do this. The CEX receiving address may be transparent, but if you send to them from your shielded address your wallet details are still private.

Any wallet that supports shielded is private and can also send to transparent, so Ywallet, Zashi, eZcash, Zingo will all work for that purpose.

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Im going to try that sometime.

ZIP-315 wallets.
Initial wallet tests on normal usage for Zingo and Zashi successful.

BIP39
Initial wallet tests for on normal usage for Trezor and Electrum successful.

Wallet Restoration
Initial Wallet tests from Ledger to Trezor using 24 seed phrase successful.

Yet to test
Wallet Restoration of Trezor to Electrum and vice vera.
Wallet Restoration of Zashi to Zingo and vice versa.

Thanks for your help!

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