🆚 Apple Pay vs. Link
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Apple Pay is five times more popular than Link.
- 🌎 Apple Pay is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Link is more popular in Indonesia, Brazil, and Turkey.
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.
Link is a one-click checkout feature from Stripe that allows shoppers to securely save and reuse their payment and shipping information across participating online merchants.
It increases conversions by providing faster checkout and works with cards, bank accounts, and Klarna.
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Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Payments category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Slovakia in the Payments category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Indonesia in the Payments category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in India in the Payments category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Canada in the Payments category.
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Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Google Pay
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Venmo
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Shop Pay
Stripe
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