Comparison

MakePass vs TicketsCandy Scanner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

TicketsCandy Scanner

This app allows for quick scanning of event tickets via QR codes, whether displayed on mobile devices or printed. Scans are instantly reflected on a real-time dashboard, streamlining event entry and attendee management.

Highlights
  • Scan QR code tickets
  • Supports mobile and printed tickets
  • Real-time attendee list updates
  • Event entry management
  • Works with TicketsCandy dashboard
Features
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Scan and validate tickets for your TicketsCandy events quickly and easily using your iPhone or iPad. Attendees can present ticket QR codes from their mobile devices or printed tickets for fast check-in at the door. Every successful scan checks the attendee in and updates your attendee list in real time, giving your team an up-to-date view of event entry right from the TicketsCandy dashboard.

Screenshots

MakePass4 screens
TicketsCandy Scanner3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TicketsCandy Scanner at none against MakePass's 3. TicketsCandy Scanner also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 46%). MakePass's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (288 vs 9). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MakePass sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. TicketsCandy Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MakePass holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MakePass has 288 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of MakePass's written reviews are positive against 78% of TicketsCandy Scanner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MakePass ships an update monthly, TicketsCandy Scanner every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MakePass versus TicketsCandy Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMakePassTicketsCandy Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (288 ratings) — better4.1 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews45.9% of reviews77.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings288 — better9
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPedro Jose Pereira VieitoTICKETSCANDY

Customer experience

MakePass

All ratings288 ratings
Positive83.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive45.9%
Neutral10.0%
Negative44.1%

TicketsCandy Scanner

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%

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

TicketsCandy Scanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MakePass

Subscriptions3
  • MakePass Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
  • MakePass Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
  • MakePass Ultra (Yearly)$16.991 Year
None

TicketsCandy Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MakePass free?
MakePass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TicketsCandy Scanner free?
TicketsCandy Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MakePass or TicketsCandy Scanner?
MakePass is rated higher. MakePass averages 4.4 out of 5 from 288 ratings, while TicketsCandy Scanner averages 4.1 from 9 ratings.
Do MakePass or TicketsCandy Scanner have ads?
Neither MakePass nor TicketsCandy Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MakePass or TicketsCandy Scanner?
MakePass ships an update monthly, and TicketsCandy Scanner every 12 months. Most recently, MakePass was updated on October 26, 2026 and TicketsCandy Scanner on October 24, 2026.

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