ShakeMyHand vs IPS ID Wallet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShakeMyHand
This app helps verify the authenticity of digital communications, ensuring you're interacting with the intended person. It's useful for confirming urgent requests, financial transactions, and sensitive data sharing with friends, family, and colleagues.
- Verify sender authenticity
- Secure financial transaction confirmation
- Confirm family member requests
- Team data security
- Secure role and permission granting
- Confirm remote team member identity
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Ever wondered if that 'urgent' message from your boss is legit, or if your friend's quirky text was actually sent by them? In this era of digital trickery, ShakeMyHand is here to help. It's a nifty app that cuts through the noise, ensuring that the person texting you for your weekend plans or the team member pinging you for a last-minute meeting is the real deal. No more second-guessing texts or emails. With ShakeMyHand, peace of mind is just a quick verification away, keeping your digital conversations authentic and worry-free. Safeguard financial transactions with colleagues, friends, and family: Before sending bank transfers or sending money through apps like Venmo or PayPal based on an e-mail, text request, or phone call, use ShakeMyHand to confirm it's truly your colleague or friend asking. Verify messages from family members: When you receive unusual requests or messages from family members, especially in urgent situations, ShakeMyHand can confirm their authenticity. Team data security: Need to swap login details or API keys in your team? With ShakeMyHand's easy passphrases, team members can make sure they're sharing sensitive info with the right people, keeping everything tight and secure, especially in remote setups. Grant roles and permissions securely: When a team member needs new roles or privileges in a tool or system, ShakeMyHand steps in. Just swap a quick passphrase to confirm it's them asking, and you're all set to update access safely. Confirm the identity of remote team members: Before sharing sensitive project details in a virtual team meeting, use ShakeMyHand to ensure you're communicating with the actual team. How does it work? 1. Install the app: First, both you and your contact (be it a friend, colleague, relative, or anyone else) need to download ShakeMyHand on your phones. 2. Scan the QR code: Next time you meet in person, open ShakeMyHand and scan each other's QR code. This is a quick and secure way to exchange digital identifiers, much like modern, secure business card exchange. 3. Synced for life: After scanning, your apps are now paired. From this point on, both phones will generate the same secret three-word passphrase. This passphrase acts as a unique, lifelong password that remains in perfect sync everytime it re-generates. 4. Verification anytime: Now, whenever you need to confirm each other's identity - through text, email, phone calls, or video chats - use your shared passphrase. A matching phrase means you're communicating with the right person, ensuring authenticity in your digital interactions.
IPS ID Wallet
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The ID Wallet app allows you to store and manage secure, authenticated, fully functional digital identity credentials. Apply for or register to receive a reusable digital credential (verifiable credential) either remotely or in-person, after which you can access the secure credential and share selected identity attributes online or in-person to prove your identity. Key Features: • Multi-credential management (wallet) with customized onboarding workflow for each credential. • Privacy-preserving technology—personal identity attributes are not stored in the Cloud, but on the user’s device, secured by device biometrics. • Consent confirmation for all data sharing with requested attributes listed and user consent to share requested. • Fast registration and identity proofing ◦ Document scanning extracts data from the scanned document. ◦ Accurate selfie-matching with certified liveness detection. • Syncing of identity data and status with data held by the issuing authority. • Custom messaging from issuing authority or gateway partner both at the time of attribute updates and status updates, or as needed. • Both in-person and online identity verification ◦ In-person with transaction-driven data sharing. ◦ Online (web and mobile app) with transaction-driven data sharing from both end-user and gateway-triggered experiences. • Transaction activity log with history to track the types of attributes shared by the user (not the data itself) in each transaction with a relying party (the organization owning the website, web application, or mobile application that the end-user wants to access). • NFC Scan & MRZ Scanning for ICAO Documents: Utilizes NFC and Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ) scanning for verification of ICAO-compliant documents. App Functions: • Document Authentication with Selfie Validation ◦ Scan any supported identity document ◦ Validate the selfie against the document portrait • NFC Passport Scanning with Selfie Validation ◦ Scan your NFC passport ◦ Validate the selfie against the document portrait • NFC Identity Card with Selfie Validation ◦ Scan your NFC identity card ◦ Validate the selfie against the document portrait • Quick In-person sharing option ◦ Enable quick trigger of ISO18013-5 presentment • Online QR code scanning ◦ Scan option for online authentication • In-person presentment with ID Verify app ◦ ISO 18013-5 compliant device-to-device transfer ◦ Requests full ISO 23220-4 photo ID content • OpenID connect (OIDC) compliant authentication transaction for verifying parties • Ad hoc notification ◦ Allows issuers to communicate with the end-user • Credential lifecycle can be managed by customer through a Rest API • Supported operations ◦ Suspend: Credential is suspended from being used for presentment. ◦ Resume/Reinstate: Credential is reinstated and can be used again for presentment. ◦ Revoke: Credential is removed from the device ◦ Attribute Updates: Add/modify any identity attribute to update credential.
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Verdict
ShakeMyHand and IPS ID Wallet are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | ShakeMyHand | IPS ID Wallet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HUMEN Information Services B.V. | Idemia Poland R&D Sp. z o.o. |
In-app purchases
ShakeMyHand
No in-app purchases
IPS ID Wallet
No in-app purchases









