🆚 Apple Pay vs. Plaid
- 📈 Apple Pay is much more popular than Plaid.
- 🌍 Apple Pay is more popular in all countries.
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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.
Plaid is a financial data aggregator that provides payment processing, identity verification, payment risk reduction, and onboarding solutions.
It verifies identities with document, selfie, phone, email, and device checks, screens against watchlists, and offers risk scoring for bank transfers to predict return risk and ownership mismatches, while also supporting account connection and KYC compliance through a single integration.
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Popularity by country
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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 Indonesia in the Online Payments category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Online Payments category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Fraud Prevention category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in the United States 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 3,718,585 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.