ChargeDesk vs Invoice for Stripe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChargeDesk
Manage multiple payment gateways like Stripe, PayPal, and Shopify from your mobile device. Receive instant notifications for payments and subscription changes. Perform actions like refunds, cancellations, and customer updates on the go.
- Manage multiple payment gateways
- Real-time payment notifications
- Process refunds and cancellations
- Create new charges and subscriptions
- Edit customer details and payment methods
- Integrates with existing e-commerce platforms
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Manage your Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Recurly, Chargify, NMI, Zuora, GoCardless, WooCommerce, Shopify & Square customers on the go with ChargeDesk. Our powerful notification system lets you know immediately when important actions happen in your account. Find out straight away when a new customer pays you or upgrades their subscription. - Refund charges - Cancel subscriptions - Create new charges (either by invoicing the customer or charging a card on file) - Create new subscriptions - Edit subscription plans - Authorize and capture payments - Manage coupons - Send payment reminders - Edit customer details including adding VAT numbers - Securely update a customer's credit card on file ChargeDesk works with your existing e-commerce setup - in most cases no coding or changes are needed. Just connect your gateway to ChargeDesk and you'll be managing your customers in seconds.
Invoice for Stripe
Easily create and send professional invoices directly from your Stripe account. Collect payments securely with a payment link sent via email, simplifying your billing process. Standard Stripe fees apply, plus a small fee for payment collection.
- Create invoices
- Assign customers
- Add line items
- Collect payments
- Send email with PDF and payment link
- Connects with Stripe
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With Invoice for Stripe, creating invoices has never been easier. Invoice connects directly with your Stripe account via Stripe Connect. Once you've logged in, you can create an invoice. To create an invoice, just assign a customer and then add line items. Invoice not only creates and sends an invoice to your customers, but it also allows you to collect payments from customers. Invoice will send an email to your customer with a PDF and a payment link to allow your customer to pay you. Sending an invoice and collecting payment has never been easier. Please note that standard Stripe fees do apply when using Invoice. In addition, there is a 1% fee when collecting payment via Invoice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Invoice for Stripe at 4.7 against ChargeDesk's 3.0. Invoice for Stripe also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 33 months) and ratings volume (331 vs 2). ChargeDesk's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 32%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Invoice for Stripe holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Invoice for Stripe has 331 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of ChargeDesk's written reviews are positive against 32% of Invoice for Stripe's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ChargeDesk ships an update every 33 months, Invoice for Stripe every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChargeDesk | Invoice for Stripe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (331 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 31.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 331 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Industries Pty Ltd | App Sub 1 LLC |
Customer experience
ChargeDesk
Invoice for Stripe
Bugs and requests
ChargeDesk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Invoice for Stripe
Reported bugs
11 issues- Cannot log out
- Cannot delete account
- Payment issues: funds not received
- Invoices cannot be modified after creation
- Hidden surcharge fees
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- Limited customer data entry
- Lack of integration with Stripe features
- Inability to accept physical card payments
- Cannot set up recurring payments
- App does not sync with Stripe
- Cannot edit existing invoices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to scan cards with camera
- Add customer from contacts
- Save items and easily add to invoices
- Add discount to invoice
- Preview invoice before sending
In-app purchases
ChargeDesk
No in-app purchases
Invoice for Stripe
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ChargeDesk free?
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