MakePass vs Ticket Validator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MakePass
Create and personalize digital passes for your Apple Wallet with AI-powered design and advanced editing tools. Import barcodes from various formats, set location and time awareness for automatic display, and integrate with iOS Shortcuts for automation.
- AI-powered design from photos
- Versatile pass creation from scratch or import
- Extensive customization options
- Support for multiple barcode formats
- Location and time-based pass display
- iOS Shortcuts integration
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MakePass is a powerful Apple Wallet pass creator and editor. Create a pass from scratch, import an existing one, or use AI to turn a photo, PDF, or description into an event ticket, boarding pass, membership card, coupon, and more. Core Features: • AI-Powered Design: Turn photos, PDFs, or descriptions into Apple Wallet passes. MakePass AI extracts the relevant information and creates the pass content, structure, and design. • Flexible Pass Creation: Start from scratch, open an existing pass, import one directly from Apple Wallet using the Share button, or choose an included example. • Extensive Customization: Add, remove, and reorder header, front, and back fields. Customize colors, dates, time zones, locations, grouping, identifiers, associated apps, and more. • Complete Image Control: Customize icon, header, strip, thumbnail, background, artwork, and footer images. Use your own image or choose a template and adjust its color and blur. • More Pass Styles: Choose from Event Tickets, Boarding Passes, Generic Passes, Poster Passes, Store Cards, Coupons, Semantic Event Tickets, and Semantic Boarding Passes. • Semantic Fields: Add structured metadata for events, venues, seating, flights, airports, passengers, dates, time zones, and locations. Apple Wallet uses this machine-readable metadata to decide which fields to show. Advanced Capabilities: • Barcode Flexibility: Scan, import, or create QR, Aztec, PDF417, Code 128, Code 39, Codabar, EAN-13, and Interleaved 2 of 5 barcodes. Convert unsupported formats to a Wallet-compatible barcode or embed them as pass images when available. • Featured Actions: Add up to two actions below a pass for calls, orders, shopping, bookings, schedules, rewards, and more. • Location and Time Awareness: Set relevant dates and locations so passes can appear on the Lock Screen at the right time or place. • Apple Wallet Editor Compatibility: Create “User Created” passes that remain editable in Wallet and never appear grouped. Add linked photos and custom backgrounds, or use styles that Wallet’s editor does not offer, including Coupons and Store Cards. • Shortcuts Integration: Use Shortcuts to automate pass creation and customization. • Command-Line Automation on Mac: Create and customize passes from Terminal, scripts, or AI agents with the included "makepass-cli" tool. MakePass Subscriptions: • MakePass Pro: Unlock barcodes and images, plus passes that appear based on time or location. • MakePass Ultra: Includes every MakePass Pro feature, plus MakePass AI, Shortcuts support, command-line automation on Mac, and Family Sharing. MakePass supports macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Notes: • On iPadOS, where Apple Wallet is unavailable, MakePass lets you preview passes and share or save them as files. • Some features, including Poster, Semantic Event Ticket, and Semantic Boarding Pass styles, header icons, featured actions, linked photos, and the “User Created” group, are unavailable on older system versions. • Barcode and image availability varies by system, device, pass style, and group. Privacy by Design: MakePass works entirely on-device and does not store or send any information outside its protected app sandbox, except when you explicitly use MakePass AI. This requires sending text extracted from images or the pass description you provide for processing. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ticket Validator
This app enables event coordinators to quickly validate tickets by scanning QR codes or entering serial numbers. It checks ticket authenticity, marking them as valid, invalid, or duplicate for efficient event entry.
- Scan QR codes on tickets
- Validate ticket authenticity
- Check for valid, invalid, or duplicate tickets
- Timed access for validation
- Manual serial code entry
- Quick entry authorization
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Ticket Validator allows event coordinators to validate tickets created using the Ticket Generator web application. Each generated ticket is equipped with a secure single-use QR Code. A QR Code is a 2D barcode that can be identified and decoded using a smartphone application. Using the Ticket Validator mobile app, event administrators and coordinators can scan the QR Code on the ticket and validate its authenticity i.e. check if the ticket is valid, invalid, or duplicate. Event administrators and coordinators will have timed access to validate tickets. Using the mobile app's quick QR Code scanning feature, event guests can be authorised quickly at the point of entry. If the administrator/coordinators are unable to scan the QR Code, it is also possible to validate tickets by entering the serial codes printed on the tickets. Please note that this mobile application is not for general use. This application is valid only for administrators of the Ticket Generator web application and invited event coordinators. To use this app, get started by creating tickets at Ticket Generator web application for your event or request an existing Ticket Generator administrator to send an event coordinator invite.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ticket Validator at 100% against MakePass's 46%. Ticket Validator also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). MakePass's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (284 vs 3). On price, ads 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. MakePass sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Ticket Validator asks for nothing beyond the download.
MakePass holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MakePass has 284 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of MakePass's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ticket Validator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MakePass ships an update every 2 months, Ticket Validator monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MakePass | Ticket Validator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (284 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 284 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pedro Jose Pereira Vieito | Scanova |
Customer experience
MakePass
Ticket Validator
Bugs and requests
MakePass
Reported bugs
13 issues- Shortcuts integration loses text in header, front, and back fields
- Pass creation fails silently without error messages
- Barcode import doesn't work for many card types
- QR codes render unreadably for large payloads
- Passes don't display correctly on Apple Watch (blank except title)
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- Front field text lines combine incorrectly
- Design doesn't match preview once sent to wallet
- Saving and loading passes causes intermittent errors
- Adding passes to wallet sometimes doesn't work
- Image import produces black lines on right side
- Generated QR codes don't match imported QR codes
- Inconsistent time format display across passes
- Editing existing passes sometimes creates new duplicates instead of updating
Requested features
24 requests- Free trial or preview mode before subscription
- Monthly subscription option (not just yearly)
- Ability to add custom images/logos to passes
- Support for more barcode formats (Code 11, 25, 39, 93, UPC-A)
- Resizable QR codes
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- Live preview while editing
- Edit raw pass.json files
- Multiple locations per pass
- Expiry date functionality
- More back field options
- Font customization options
- HSL color adjustments
- Clickable phone numbers and locations in fields
- Lock screen pass display based on location
- History of recently added passes
- Ability to overwrite existing passes instead of creating duplicates
- NFC card cloning support
- More pass group options (more than 9)
- Custom RGB color picker
- Recurring pass relevancy (e.g., weekday displays)
- Comprehensive tutorials and documentation
- In-app feedback/bug report button
- Support for COVID-19 and vaccination passports
- API access for developers
Ticket Validator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MakePass
- MakePass Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
- MakePass Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
- MakePass Ultra (Yearly)$16.991 Year
Ticket Validator
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is MakePass free?
Is Ticket Validator free?
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