🆚 Apple Pay vs. PayPal

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 PayPal is much more popular than Apple Pay.
🌎 PayPal is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Apple Pay is more popular in Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Armenia.

Apple Pay

PayPal

Type

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.

PayPal is an online payment service that allows users to send funds from a credit card, bank account, or PayPal balance to merchants without sharing their financial details.

It includes a digital wallet that links to bank accounts and cards, supports transactions in more than 200 countries and regions and 25 currencies, offers buyer protection on eligible purchases, and enables guest checkout for non-account holders.

Headquarters

Cupertino, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

Website

apple.com/apple-pay #8

paypal.com #45

Pricing

Free ✔️

Domestic personal transactionsFrom bank accounts$0 (if no currency conversion)
From cards3.4% + fixed fee based on currency

International personal transactionsFrom U.S. bank accounts$4.99
From U.S. cards$4.99 + 3.4% + fixed fee

Merchant feesFor receiving domestic transactions3.40% + fixed fee
For receiving international transactions4.40% + fixed fee

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal payment service is 12 times more popular than Apple Pay.

Total websites

Market share

Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Apple Pay is more popular in Saudi Arabia, Belarus, and Armenia.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Australia

France

Italy

Netherlands

Canada

Spain

India

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.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Payments category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PayPal is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Apple Pay is more commonly used on restaurants sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Sports

Education/Reference

Software/Hardware