Comparison

OSS CardWallet vs Pareva

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Pareva

Features
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Pareva is the fastest way to pick up, drop off, or grab what's yours from a Pareva locker. Open your phone, tap once, push the door — you're in. Your bookings, your pocket! No scrolling through inboxes, no forwarded confirmations, no "what was my reference again?" One tap to open The countdown ring tells you how long you have. The door clicks open when you push. Pareva handles the rest. Your wrist works too Left your phone in the car? Your Apple Watch already has the same bookings and the same Open button. Raise your wrist, tap, push, done.

Screenshots

OSS CardWallet4 screens
Pareva3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pareva at none against OSS CardWallet's 5. OSS CardWallet's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. OSS CardWallet sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Pareva asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OSS CardWallet ships an update every 11 days, Pareva every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
OSS CardWallet versus Pareva: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOSS CardWalletPareva
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkylasPareva

In-app purchases

5 purchases

OSS CardWallet

One-time5
  • 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
None

Pareva

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OSS CardWallet free?
OSS CardWallet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pareva free?
Pareva is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OSS CardWallet or Pareva have ads?
Neither OSS CardWallet nor Pareva shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OSS CardWallet or Pareva?
OSS CardWallet ships an update every 11 days, and Pareva every 2 weeks. Most recently, OSS CardWallet was updated on October 21, 2026 and Pareva on October 28, 2026.

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