🆚 Apple Pay vs. Mastercard
- 📈 Apple Pay is four times more popular than Mastercard.
- 🌎 Apple Pay is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Mastercard is more popular in Russia, Brazil, and Ukraine.
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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.
Mastercard is a global payment-network processor that connects merchants, banks and card-holders for debit, credit and prepaid payments.
It supports payments in more than 210 countries and territories, offers contactless and mobile tap-to-pay transactions, provides layered security including tokenisation and real-time fraud monitoring, and gives card-holders travel insurance and extended warranty benefits depending on the card tier.
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- 🥇 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Online Payments category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Greece in the Online Payments category.
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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.