Marklife vs AiYin
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
AiYin
Create and print custom labels with text, images, and more. Offers a template center and personal saving options for easy, creative label making. Connects to a smart pocket printer via Bluetooth for on-the-go printing.
- Text, picture, and symbol editing
- Customizable borders and expressions
- Graffiti and QR code creation
- Extensive template center
- Personal template saving
- Bluetooth printer connectivity
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AiYin is a powerful label printing and editing software. Suitable for study, office, daily, business, social entertainment and other multi-dimensional scenarios. The software connects to the label printer via Bluetooth. Through the app, you can choose to add text, pictures, symbols, borders, expressions, graffiti, two-dimensional code and other components in the editor to create personalized labels, and select beautiful label templates in the template center for editing and printing. Make your printing easier with the AiYin app! Be more creative! 【 Tag Editor 】 With text, pictures, borders, expressions, graffiti a variety of components, including rich fonts, ICONS, borders and other materials, free combination, creative. 【 Template Center 】 Provide a large number of beautiful practical templates, one-click application typesetting, fast wordless printing. 【 Personal template 】 One click to save the editing content, print records, anytime, anywhere, one click to print.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AiYin at 83% against Marklife's 28%. AiYin also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
AiYin holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AiYin has 1.3K ratings behind it against 91, 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 83% of AiYin's.
Marklife ships an update every 3 weeks, AiYin weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marklife | AiYin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (91 ratings) | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 83.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 91 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 203 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Yinxiaoqian Technology Co.Ltd. | Xiamen AiYin Technology Co.,Ltd |
Customer experience
Marklife
AiYin
Bugs and requests
Marklife
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
AiYin
Reported bugs
24 issues- Color doesn't show on print
- App throws errors
- Will connect then disconnect
- App doesn't even open up
- Density doesn't work
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- Printer doesn't line up page
- App crashes and freezes after every use
- App doesn't open or syncs
- Stopped working after new app update
- App no longer loads, blank white screen
- App won't open on iPhone
- Network error message
- App stops working, says network error
- App doesn't load, only splash screen
- App doesn't open
- App doesn't detect printer
- Templates cannot be loaded
- Cannot log in to account
- Bug when installing app on iPhone
- Option to print tattoos removed
- Printing multiple copies only prints one
- App often says error
- App doesn't indicate size of printing image
- App doesn't load more fonts
Requested features
9 requests- More designs in discover page
- Better templates
- Add search function for records
- More detailed printing options
- Add Russian language support
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- Add font size adjustment
- Add border option back
- Add option to select black color for text
- Add more templates
In-app purchases
Marklife
No in-app purchases
AiYin
No in-app purchases








