🆚 Apple Pay vs. Google Pay

Type

Online payment service
Online payment service

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.

Google Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service developed by Google that enables users to make contactless and online payments using supported Android phones, tablets, and wearable devices.

It supports NFC-based tap-to-pay, secure tokenization instead of sharing card numbers, storage of payment cards, transit passes, tickets, and loyalty cards, in-app and web payments, biometric authentication, and broad compatibility with banks and payment networks in many countries.

Headquarters

Cupertino, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Free ✔️

Categories

Online Payments › Rank #2
Online Payments › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Apple Pay online payment service is 4 times more popular than Google Pay.
Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Apple Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Google Pay is more popular in the Czech Republic, Poland, and India.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
France
Italy
Spain
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Apple Pay is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and marketing and merchandising, while Google Pay is more commonly used on real estate and weapons sites.
Online Shopping
Fashion/Beauty
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Sports
Travel
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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