🆚 Apple Pay vs. Stripe
- 📈 Stripe is three times more popular than Apple Pay.
- 🌎 Stripe is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Apple Pay is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.
Apple Pay
StripeType
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.
Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.
It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.
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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 Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Subscriptions category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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PayPro Global🗃️ 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.