iProcess vs SecurityMetrics Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iProcess
Process credit card transactions securely and easily from your mobile device. This point of sale app supports swiped, keyed, and chip transactions, and offers features like transaction history, refunds, and automated tax application.
- Process swiped, keyed, and chip transactions
- View transaction history
- Refund and void transactions
- Automatic tax rate application
- Accept customer signatures
- Email receipts
- Customer Vault management
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iProcess is a secure and simple way to process credit card transactions from your iPhone or iPad. This point of sale app allows you to sign in with your gateway credentials and you can start processing with our supported credit card swipers. Features include: • Process swiped, keyed, and chip sale and credit transactions (card reader sold through your merchant service provider) • View a complete history of mobile transactions • Refund and void previous mobile transactions • Set a tax rate to be automatically applied to all transactions • Accept signatures from your customers • Save location data with transactions • Automatically send email receipts • Share receipts with customers with almost any app on your device • Toggle between multiple merchant accounts with ease • Name your device to easily distinguish between devices in the merchant control panel reporting • View customers you have saved to the Customer Vault (if service is active) • Add, edit, and delete customers from the Customer Vault (if service is active)
SecurityMetrics Mobile
This app checks your mobile device for security vulnerabilities and compliance with industry standards like PCI. It guides you on how to enable iOS security features to protect sensitive data.
- PCI Compliance Reporting
- Jailbreak Detection
- WiFi Network Security Check
- Passcode Enabled Status
- On-Disk Encryption Status
- OS Update Availability
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If you are like millions of others, you access sensitive data on your mobile device every day. You may manage your bank account from your smartphone. Maybe you process customer credit cards on your mobile device. Perhaps you use your tablet to access patient information at your medical office. Ensure that your secure iPhone or iPad is able to report its PCI Compliance. SecurityMetrics Mobile searches iPhones and iPads to ensure that you are using all of the security features available in iOS, and if not, provides detailed instructions to take advantage of Apple's technology. SecurityMetrics Mobile determines: • If the OS has been jailbroken, thus circumventing important security features from Apple • WiFi network security level • If a passcode is enabled on the lock screen • On-disk encryption status • If there are any attached peripherals • If there are OS updates available • If the current version of SecurityMetrics Mobile is installed Learn more about SecurityMetrics Mobile at www.securitymetrics.com/securitymetricsmobile
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: iProcess at every 2 months against SecurityMetrics Mobile's every 14 months. iProcess also leads on review sentiment (49% vs 33%) and ratings volume (29 vs 4). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for iProcess against 3.0 for SecurityMetrics Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iProcess has 29 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of iProcess's written reviews are positive against 33% of SecurityMetrics Mobile's.
iProcess ships an update every 2 months, SecurityMetrics Mobile every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iProcess | SecurityMetrics Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (29 ratings) | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.6% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gateway Processing Services | SecurityMetrics |
Customer experience
iProcess
SecurityMetrics Mobile
Bugs and requests
iProcess
Reported bugs
16 issues- Customer Vault not working with iOS
- App crashes when swiping cards
- App crashes when completing transactions
- Terminal ID Missing and Transaction Key Missing errors
- Connectivity issues, app fails to connect to reader
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- Error messages with no troubleshooting
- No date or time stamp on receipts
- Unable to use customer signature
- Cannot add tips
- Card reader not working with extensions or charge ports
- Signature screen turns black
- App not compatible with iOS 8
- iPad screen layout issues
- Email receipt process requires re-entry of email address
- Cannot send email receipts
- Card reader crashes the app
Requested features
20 requests- Add date and time stamp to receipts
- Improve connectivity and reduce error messages
- Allow adding tips in the payment process
- Enable landscape mode on iPad
- Improve visibility and usability of the tip option
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- Restore the ability to swipe cards directly into Customer Vault
- Provide clear contact information and website for support
- Update to be compatible with newer phone ports (e.g., charge port)
- Implement a master account setup online for employees
- Streamline the receipt emailing process
- Improve the tip screen layout for better readability
- Allow customers to erase and redo signatures
- Fix the issue where the signature pad turns black
- Add a checkbox for manual entries
- Allow multiple email addresses for receipts
- Improve the iPad screen layout for sales entry
- Make the email address carry over for receipt sending
- Add tax functionality
- Provide an iPad-specific version of the app
- Fix the card reader crash issue
SecurityMetrics Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iProcess
No in-app purchases
SecurityMetrics Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iProcess free?
Is SecurityMetrics Mobile free?
Which has better reviews, iProcess or SecurityMetrics Mobile?
Do iProcess or SecurityMetrics Mobile have ads?
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