Beam vs PallaPay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beam
This app offers personalized deals and dollar rewards from local stores. Merchants can create targeted marketing campaigns to connect with specific customer profiles. It aims to help customers save money, businesses increase profits, and reduce waste.
- Personalized offers from stores
- Earn rewards in dollars
- Merchant campaign creation
- Targeted offers to user profiles
- Pay with your phone
- 10% back on every spend
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Beam is an innovative payments and marketing app and platform built for the 21st century. Beam allows users to access personalised offers from stores and earn rewards in dollars! For merchants, we’ve created a platform that turns payments into conversations; Beam allows merchants to create campaigns for specific user profiles, allowing merchants to match their offers with the right customer. Customers save money, businesses profit, and waste is a thing of the past. How Pay with your phone, get 10% back, on every spend, anywhere. Why → It’s easy Download the app for free and go. → It’s different 10% back on every spend. Always. → It’s BS-free Rewards in dollars, not inflated points. What you see is what you get. Note: Beam is currently available in Sydney, Australia and Lisbon, Portugal, and is no longer available in the UAE and Sweden. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
PallaPay
This application serves as a global cryptocurrency payment platform. It allows users to buy, sell, convert, send, receive, and accept digital currencies instantly. Features include a built-in wallet, a fast exchange engine, and point-of-sale payment options for both businesses and individuals.
- Buy, sell, and convert cryptocurrency
- Global payment gateway
- Built-in crypto wallet
- Fast exchange engine
- Point-of-sale payments
- Accept crypto in-store or online
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Crypto Wallet, Exchange & Global Payment Gateway. Pallapay is a global crypto payment platform that lets you buy, sell, convert, send, receive, and accept cryptocurrency instantly. Use the built-in crypto wallet, fast exchange engine, and point-of-sale payments to move money without limits. Accept crypto in-store or online and settle in fiat instantly. Secure, compliant, and built for businesses and everyday users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PallaPay at 100% against Beam's 47%. PallaPay also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). Beam's advantage is ratings volume (807 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). 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.
PallaPay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beam has 807 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Beam's written reviews are positive against 100% of PallaPay's.
Beam ships an update every 4 months, PallaPay every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beam | PallaPay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (807 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 807 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GBC S.A. | PALLADIUM PAYMENT SERVICES LLC |
Customer experience
Beam
PallaPay
Bugs and requests
Beam
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch or during use
- Payment transactions fail or get stuck
- Account verification and card linking issues
- Rewards and credits not properly tracked or applied
Requested features
5 requests- Expand merchant network and availability
- Improve payment reliability and speed
- Provide better customer support channels
- Add Apple Watch support
- Introduce more rewards and discounts
PallaPay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Beam
No in-app purchases
PallaPay
No in-app purchases
