🆚 Apple Pay vs. PayPal
- 📈 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, Mongolia, and Bahrain.
Apple Pay
PayPalType
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.
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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 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 Italy in the Payments category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Samsung Pay
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Shop Pay
Stripe
Visa
Mastercard🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.