SatChannels vs Wallet Libre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SatChannels
Discover detailed information about TV channels and satellites. Save favorites for offline access and utilize location services to find satellite data like azimuth and elevation.
- Channel information
- Satellite data
- Offline access
- Save favorites
- Location services
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Find all the information about channels and satellites. Save channels and satellites to check their information later or when you are offline. LocatIon is required to get satellite's information like azimuth, elevation, distance...
Wallet Libre
Transform physical cards into digital passes for your device's wallet. Capture your card's barcode, and the app reconstructs it for seamless scanning. It can even suggest titles, colors, and logos for a personalized touch.
- Photograph and digitize card barcodes
- Supports various barcode formats (Codabar, QR, Code 128, etc.)
- Automatic suggestion of title, colors, and logo
- Location-based pass suggestions on lock screen
- Customizable pass details (member number, expiry)
- Privacy-focused with no account or sign-in required
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Wallet Libre turns a card you already carry into a pass in Apple Wallet. Photograph the barcode, check the number it read, and add it. That is the whole flow — everything after it is optional. WHY IT EXISTS Most library cards use Codabar, a barcode format Apple Wallet has no support for. Wallet Libre draws the bars itself, at the same width they are printed on the card, so the pass scans where the plastic did. QR, Code 128, PDF417 and Aztec are handled natively when your card carries one. Some formats cannot be rebuilt into a pass at all — EAN, UPC, Code 39, Code 93 and ITF among them — and the app tells you so when it reads one, rather than quietly shipping a barcode that will not scan. LET IT FILL IN THE REST Ask it to, and Wallet Libre reads the photo of your card and suggests a title, colors drawn from the card itself, and the issuer's logo. Nothing is applied without you seeing it first, and you can skip the whole step and type the details yourself. IT SHOWS UP WHERE YOU USE IT Give a pass locations and Apple Wallet offers it on your lock screen when you arrive — no app to open, nothing to search for. Wallet Libre finds the places for you: from a built-in directory of US public libraries that needs no network round trip, or from a map search anywhere else. You choose which ones stay. Apple Wallet carries up to ten per pass, and one tap picks the ten nearest you. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOUR CARD Choose the colors, or take them from the photo. Use a letter or an emoji where there is no logo to find. Add the fields printed on your own card — a member number, a join date, an expiry. PRIVACY There is no account and no sign-in, and there is nothing to create. Apple requires every pass to be signed with a registered developer certificate, and a certificate cannot ship inside an app. So the card's details go to the signing server, are signed, and are discarded before the response is sent. They are never stored and never logged. The optional fill is the only other thing that leaves your iPhone: when you ask for it, the photo of your card and the text read from it are sent to be interpreted, and are not kept afterwards. Tap the other button and nothing is ever sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wallet Libre at 5.0 against SatChannels's 3.8. Wallet Libre also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 months). SatChannels's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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.
Wallet Libre holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SatChannels has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SatChannels ships an update every 11 months, Wallet Libre every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SatChannels | Wallet Libre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Nowendsztern | Hsin-Yao Lin |
Customer experience
SatChannels
Wallet Libre
In-app purchases
SatChannels
No in-app purchases
Wallet Libre
No in-app purchases









