Marklife vs Label Expert
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marklife
This portable Bluetooth label printer allows for easy and versatile label creation. It supports various fonts, image printing, and custom barcodes/QR codes. Access a rich cloud template library or create your own personalized designs for diverse industrial and personal use.
- Bluetooth printing
- Cloud and local template library
- Customizable barcode and QR code printing
- Serial number printing
- Date/time insertion
- Picture printing
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MARKLIFE Smart Bluetooth label printer for printing small labels is suitable for exclusive label printing in various industries and scenes, with Bluetooth link and convenient operation. Support multiple font choices, support picture printing, and customize barcode and QR code. You can choose rich cloud template library or self-built template library. Featured function 1 Extreme Bluetooth printing: it supports universal Bluetooth connection equipment, searches for matching rapidly, and connects stably and continuously. 2 Dual-mode template library: The cloud template library provides a wealth of standardized label templates to choose from, covering multiple industries and scenarios. The number of templates is constantly increasing and updating, which is convenient for small white users to set up quickly. Customized personalized templates can also be saved locally, edited and saved at any time. 3 barcode One-dimensional code support: ean-8/ean-13/code39/code128/UPC-a/codabar QR CODE support: QR code 4 graded data Numbers can be set at the bottom edge and printed in serial number order, which is suitable for text and barcode 5 Date/time Insert the time and date to be printed in 1 second, which can be switched at will
Label Expert
Create professional labels with this software. It supports printing from PDF files, images, and custom templates for versatile label design.
- PDF printing
- Image printing
- Custom template printing
- Professional label design
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Professional label printing software, providing PDF, image and custom template printing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Label Expert at 4.4 against Marklife's 2.4. Label Expert also leads on review sentiment (52% vs 28%) and ratings volume (866 vs 90). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Label Expert holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Label Expert has 866 ratings behind it against 90, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Marklife's written reviews are positive against 52% of Label Expert's.
Marklife ships an update fortnightly, Label Expert every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marklife | Label Expert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (90 ratings) | 4.4 (866 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.7% of reviews | 52.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 90 | 866 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Yinxiaoqian Technology Co.Ltd. | Xiamen AiYin Technology Co.,Ltd |
Customer experience
Marklife
Label Expert
Bugs and requests
Marklife
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Label Expert
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login/registration issues
- Printing failures and freezes
- Inverted color printing after updates
- Barcodes not scanning properly
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to manually crop labels
- Improved label design customization
- Multilingual support
- Wireless printing without app
In-app purchases
Marklife
No in-app purchases
Label Expert
No in-app purchases
