Meshtastic vs OSS CardWallet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meshtastic
This app enables off-grid, decentralized communication via a low-power mesh network. Send text messages in areas lacking cellular or WiFi service.
- Off-grid communication
- Decentralized mesh network
- Low-power LoRa radio support
- Text messaging
- No cellular/WiFi required
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Meshtastic® is an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on low-power Lora radios letting you send text messages in areas without reliable cellular or WiFi service.
OSS CardWallet
Transform your phone into a powerful card scanner and wallet. Effortlessly scan IDs, business cards, and loyalty cards with automatic edge detection. Organize, enhance, and export your cards as PDFs or images, with optional password protection for added security.
- Fast camera scanning with automatic edge detection
- Bulk scanning and import from images/PDFs
- Barcode and QR code detection
- Passbook support with import/export
- PDF enhancement filters and editing tools
- Folder creation for organization
- Offline OCR for searchable PDFs
- Password protection for exported PDFs
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OSS Card Wallet is a free and Open Source app to transform your mobile device into a powerful card scanner and wallet SCAN * Scan your IDs, business cards, loyalty cards with a fast camera scan. * Enjoy the automatic edge detection feature allowing you to quickly scan many documents * Bulk scan to quickly add recto/verso * Import cards from images or even existing PDFBARCODE* automatic detection of barcodes, qrcodes...* manually create a card with a barcode* add as many barcodes as you want to a simple cardPASSBOOK* Full Passbook support* import from .pkpass* view your Passbooks as you would in the official Apple Passbook App* Export and share your passbooks as .pkpass or PDF ENHANCE * Improve PDFs quality by applying enhancing filters for color or black & white cards. * Edit crop * Reorder pages, merge cards * Rotate pages * Change brightness and contrast to create beautiful cards ORGANIZE * Create folders with colors for easy access * Sort cards * Name cards EXPORT * create PDF directly from your mobile device by converting photos, images, other documents, into beautiful and configurable PDFs. * export and share your cards to PDF or JPEG or PNG with your friends, family, colleagues SEARCH * OCR your cards using offline (to be downloaded first) and open source models in many languages. * Generate searchable PDFs by converting images to text using the powerful OCR models from the Tesseract project. SECURITY * Improve the security of your generated PDF by adding a password. SYNC * Synchronize your cards, PDFs, Images with your computers, other devices using WebDav or local folder sync. PRIVACY * Use a free and Open Source card wallet to protect your privacy COMMUNITY * Provide feedback or even help translate the app. You are part of this project and you make help it grow so that everyone can enjoy the best free and open source card wallet
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Meshtastic at none against OSS CardWallet's 5. Meshtastic also leads on ratings volume (824 vs 2). OSS CardWallet's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.5). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. OSS CardWallet sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Meshtastic asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Meshtastic against 4.0 for OSS CardWallet. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meshtastic has 824 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Meshtastic ships an update every 10 days, OSS CardWallet every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meshtastic | OSS CardWallet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (824 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 824 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Meshtastic LLC | Akylas |
Customer experience
Meshtastic
OSS CardWallet
Bugs and requests
Meshtastic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Canned messages configuration issues
- Location sharing and traceroute functions not working
- Settings screen bugs and crashes
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline maps support
- Ability to customize notifications
- More sorting and filtering options for nodes
- Apple Watch and Shortcuts integration
- Improved documentation and user guidance
OSS CardWallet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Meshtastic
No in-app purchases
OSS CardWallet
- a coffee$0.99
- a big coffee$1.99
- a beer$3.99
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- a pint$8.99
- a very nice donation$17.99
Questions
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