CoreMobile by CoreCommerce vs Lantern
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CoreMobile by CoreCommerce
Accept payments securely and conveniently from anywhere. Features include contactless payments, customer card storage, and recurring billing options. Streamline your business transactions on the go.
- Tap on Glass payments
- Customer Vault for secure card storage
- Surcharge for cost recovery
- Recurring Payments
- Secure payment acceptance
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CoreMobile enables users to seamlessly and securely accept payments anytime, anywhere. Designed for flexibility and convenience, CoreMobile provides access to advanced features such as Tap on Glass payments, eliminating the need for an external card reader, Customer Vault for secure card storage, Surcharge for cost recovery, Recurring Payments for ongoing billing, and more.
Lantern
Facilitates collaboration between merchants and their payment organizations. Streamlines communication and content sharing for payment processing services.
- Merchant-organization connection
- Collaborative platform
- Payment services content
- Streamlined communication
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The mobile app that collaboratively connects merchants with their payment organizations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lantern at monthly against CoreMobile by CoreCommerce's every 3 months. CoreMobile by CoreCommerce's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2). 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 — 5.0 for CoreMobile by CoreCommerce against 5.0 for Lantern. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.
CoreMobile by CoreCommerce ships an update every 3 months, Lantern monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CoreMobile by CoreCommerce | Lantern |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Iroquois Merchant Services Inc | Lantern-i |
Customer experience
CoreMobile by CoreCommerce
Lantern
In-app purchases
CoreMobile by CoreCommerce
No in-app purchases
Lantern
No in-app purchases
