Label Printer・Sticker & Badge vs Backfeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Label Printer・Sticker & Badge
Easily create and print custom labels, stickers, and badges without a steep learning curve. Design professional-looking items for parties, shipping, products, or events with flexible customization options.
- Type, style, and print labels quickly
- Save and reuse label designs
- Auto-fill sheets or use custom sizes
- Add photos and built-in clipart
- Customize fonts, colors, and alignment
- Works with various label sheet brands and custom sizes
- Prints to most printers via AirPrint or regular connections
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Label Printer finally, labels that don't take forever No learning curve. No templates that almost work but don't. just type, style, print. Perfect for party invitations, address labels, product stickers, or storage tags, you'll actually get it done instead of giving up halfway through. Stop fighting with word processors just to print. Whether you're making shipping labels, organizing your stuff, creating name badges for an event, or printing sale stickers for your small business, this app just works. What you can do: - Save label designs you actually use again - Auto-fill whole sheets or go fully custom with any size - Add your own photos or use the built-in clipart - Customize fonts, colors, alignment, whatever you want - Works with any Avery, Herma, Unistat sheets or literally any custom paper size - Prints to pretty much any printer (AirPrint or regular ones) --- The app offers a subscription-based pricing model with various durations, including a lifetime subscription for long-term users, providing the best overall value. --- The app uses the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA)(https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/) It does not collect any user's personal information. All activity information that you input into the app remains privately stored on your device.
Backfeed
This app helps manage and print labels using Zebra thermal printers. It offers automatic network discovery, printer setup, and live status monitoring. Local printing of PDFs and images is available with a one-time unlock, while cloud printing from anywhere requires a subscription.
- Automatic Zebra printer discovery
- Printer setup via Bluetooth or IP
- Live printer status monitoring
- Custom label size management
- Test printing and diagnostics
- Local PDF/image printing
- Remote printing via cloud subscription
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Print 4x6 shipping labels and your own PDFs and images from your Mac, iPhone or iPad straight to a Zebra thermal printer. You don't need a driver. Backfeed also sets up, calibrates and troubleshoots the printer, and that part is free. FREE, WITH NO ACCOUNT • Add a Printer walks you through it: it finds Zebra ZD printers on your network, sets up a new one over Bluetooth and puts it on your Wi-Fi, or adds one by its address • Shows live status: ready, out of paper, head open, paused • Calibrates to the labels you have loaded, and reads the label size from the printer's gap sensor • Print Settings: darkness, print speed, tear off or peel off, and media type, with Undo • A test label that fits the labels you have loaded: edge marks and a ruler show whether it's lined up, a solid band shows print quality, and it lists the printer's model, connection, firmware and settings in plain words • Fixes common problems: clears stuck jobs, reboots the printer, resets print geometry settings with one tap, switches a printer back to ZPL, and restores printer defaults while keeping Wi-Fi • For technicians: an advanced console for raw ZPL and SGD commands BACKFEED LOCAL: ONE-TIME PURCHASE Print your own files over your local network, for good. • Open a PDF or image in Backfeed, use Open With, or drag it onto the Mac window • A 4x6 label PDF from your shipping software prints at full size on a 4x6 label • A letter-size page with a 4x6 label on it prints just the label, at full size • The preview shows exactly what the print head will print, at your label's size • It needs no account, and nothing leaves your network BACKFEED CLOUD: SUBSCRIPTION Print to your printers from anywhere. • The printer connects out to the Backfeed relay, so you don't need a VPN or port forwarding • Includes everything in Backfeed Local, for as long as you subscribe • Plans for 1 printer, 5 printers, or up to 25 • 14-day free trial for eligible new subscribers • Export or delete your cloud data from inside the app ONE PURCHASE, EVERY DEVICE Backfeed runs natively on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Backfeed Local and Backfeed Cloud are Universal Purchases: buy once and use them on every device signed in to the same Apple Account. NO ANALYTICS, ADS OR TRACKING Backfeed ships no analytics SDK, no advertising and no third-party trackers. SUPPORTED PRINTERS Zebra ZD410, ZD411 and ZD421 network printers with direct thermal labels. Bluetooth setup works on models that have Bluetooth. Automatic discovery needs your device and printer on the same network; otherwise add it by its address, or use Backfeed Cloud. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Backfeed Terms of Service: https://backfeed.cloud/terms Privacy Policy: https://backfeed.cloud/privacy Backfeed Cloud is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Backfeed is an independent app for managing Zebra thermal label printers. Zebra and ZD are trademarks of their respective owners; Backfeed is not affiliated with Zebra Technologies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Backfeed at free with in-app purchases against Label Printer・Sticker & Badge's subscription. Backfeed also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Label Printer・Sticker & Badge sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Backfeed sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Label Printer・Sticker & Badge against 5.0 for Backfeed. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Label Printer・Sticker & Badge ships an update every 3 months, Backfeed every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Label Printer・Sticker & Badge | Backfeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ishtiak Ahmed | Robert Owens |
Customer experience
Label Printer・Sticker & Badge
Backfeed
In-app purchases
Label Printer・Sticker & Badge
- Weekly Subscription Plan$2.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription Plan$5.991 Month
- Lifetime Plan$17.99
Backfeed
- Cloud — 1 Printer14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Cloud — 5 Printers14 Days trial$15.991 Month
- Cloud Pro14 Days trial$39.991 Month
- Backfeed Local$9.99
Questions
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