🆚 Apple Pay vs. Cardstream
- 📈 Apple Pay is much more popular than Cardstream.
- 🌍 Apple Pay is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Cardstream is particularly popular in the United Kingdom.
Apple PayType
About
Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users make secure contactless and online payments with iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro devices.
It supports tap-to-pay in stores using NFC, payments in apps and on the web, secure tokenization that hides actual card numbers from merchants, biometric authentication such as Face ID or Touch ID, and storage of credit, debit, and prepaid cards in Wallet.
Cardstream is a UK-based, white-label payment gateway that is independent of individual acquirers, markets or geographical locations.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Online Payments category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.