Handpoint vs OpenTerminalSub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Handpoint
This mobile point-of-sale application allows businesses to securely accept card payments using various compatible card readers. It provides straightforward setup instructions for EMV, NFC, and MSR transactions, ensuring a secure payment process.
- Accept secure card payments
- Point-to-point encryption
- Supports EMV, NFC, and MSR
- Connects with Handpoint card readers
- Straight-forward setup instructions
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The Handpoint mobile Point of Sale app enables you to accept highly secure card payments, together with the varied range of Handpoint card readers through stringent point-to-point encryption security. Simply download this mPOS app and you’ll find straight-forward instructions to ensure you are correctly connected with your card reader and properly set up for accepting EMV, NFC and MSR payments for your business.
OpenTerminalSub
This app helps businesses turn one-time customers into regulars through a tap-based loyalty management system. Easily issue digital gift cards, stamp cards, or store coupons directly from your phone.
- Tap-based loyalty management
- Issue digital gift cards
- Issue digital stamp cards
- Issue digital store coupons
- Convert walk-ins to regulars
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Change your customers to regulars with the OpenTerminal & OpenCard. OpenTerminal is a tap-based phone to phone customer loyalty management app for your store. By tapping your customer phone with yours, you can issue a gift card, a stamp card, or a store coupon. With OpenTerminal, change walk-ins to regulars now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Handpoint at every 6 months against OpenTerminalSub's every 34 months. Handpoint also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Handpoint against 5.0 for OpenTerminalSub. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Handpoint ships an update every 6 months, OpenTerminalSub every 34 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Handpoint | OpenTerminalSub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 34 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Handpoint ehf. | DualAuth, LLC. |
Customer experience
Handpoint
OpenTerminalSub
In-app purchases
Handpoint
No in-app purchases
OpenTerminalSub
No in-app purchases
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