🆚 Apple Pay vs. PayPal

📈 PayPal is noticeably more popular than Apple Pay.
🌎 PayPal is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Apple Pay is more popular in Japan, New Zealand, and Denmark.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Apple Pay

PayPal

Type

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.

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 transactions From bank accounts $0 (if no currency conversion)
From cards 3.4% + fixed fee based on currency

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

Merchant fees For receiving domestic transactions 3.40% + fixed fee
For receiving international transactions 4.40% + fixed fee

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PayPal online payment service is 1.5 times more popular than Apple Pay.

Total websites

Market share

Online Payments

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PayPal is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Apple Pay is more popular in Japan, New Zealand, and Denmark.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

Canada

Italy

France

Netherlands

Spain

Japan

Awards

🥇 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 the United States in the Online Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Online Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Online Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Online Payments category.
🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Online 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 finance and banking, alcohol, and restaurants sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Business

Sports

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Education/Reference

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#35

#49