Wave vs Wallet Libre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wave
This app helps seafarers manage their maritime careers. Log sea service, store certificates, and track career progression. Export records as PDFs and access data offline.
- Sea service tracking
- Certificate management
- Career progression monitoring
- PDF export and sharing
- Offline access
- Secure data storage
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Wave is the all-in-one maritime career companion for seafarers. Track your sea service records, manage certificates, and monitor your career progression — all from your pocket. Key Features: • Sea Service Tracking — Log your service records with vessel details, ranks, and dates. Keep an accurate, organized history of your time at sea. • Certificate Management — Store and manage your maritime certificates in one secure place. Never lose track of important documents again. • Career Progression — Set your target rank and vessel type, track required sea time, and see exactly where you stand on your career path. • PDF Export & Sharing — Export your complete sea service records as professional PDF documents, ready to share with employers or maritime authorities. • Offline Access — Works without an internet connection. Your data syncs automatically when you're back online, perfect for life at sea. • Secure & Private — Your maritime career data is protected with secure authentication and encrypted storage. Whether you're a cadet logging your first voyage or an experienced officer managing years of service history, Wave keeps your maritime career organized and accessible. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Wallet Libre
Transform physical cards into digital passes for your device's wallet. Capture your card's barcode, and the app reconstructs it for seamless scanning. It can even suggest titles, colors, and logos for a personalized touch.
- Photograph and digitize card barcodes
- Supports various barcode formats (Codabar, QR, Code 128, etc.)
- Automatic suggestion of title, colors, and logo
- Location-based pass suggestions on lock screen
- Customizable pass details (member number, expiry)
- Privacy-focused with no account or sign-in required
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Wallet Libre turns a card you already carry into a pass in Apple Wallet. Photograph the barcode, check the number it read, and add it. That is the whole flow — everything after it is optional. WHY IT EXISTS Most library cards use Codabar, a barcode format Apple Wallet has no support for. Wallet Libre draws the bars itself, at the same width they are printed on the card, so the pass scans where the plastic did. QR, Code 128, PDF417 and Aztec are handled natively when your card carries one. Some formats cannot be rebuilt into a pass at all — EAN, UPC, Code 39, Code 93 and ITF among them — and the app tells you so when it reads one, rather than quietly shipping a barcode that will not scan. LET IT FILL IN THE REST Ask it to, and Wallet Libre reads the photo of your card and suggests a title, colors drawn from the card itself, and the issuer's logo. Nothing is applied without you seeing it first, and you can skip the whole step and type the details yourself. IT SHOWS UP WHERE YOU USE IT Give a pass locations and Apple Wallet offers it on your lock screen when you arrive — no app to open, nothing to search for. Wallet Libre finds the places for you: from a built-in directory of US public libraries that needs no network round trip, or from a map search anywhere else. You choose which ones stay. Apple Wallet carries up to ten per pass, and one tap picks the ten nearest you. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOUR CARD Choose the colors, or take them from the photo. Use a letter or an emoji where there is no logo to find. Add the fields printed on your own card — a member number, a join date, an expiry. PRIVACY There is no account and no sign-in, and there is nothing to create. Apple requires every pass to be signed with a registered developer certificate, and a certificate cannot ship inside an app. So the card's details go to the signing server, are signed, and are discarded before the response is sent. They are never stored and never logged. The optional fill is the only other thing that leaves your iPhone: when you ask for it, the photo of your card and the text read from it are sent to be interpreted, and are not kept afterwards. Tap the other button and nothing is ever sent anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wallet Libre at none against Wave's 2. Wallet Libre also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Wave's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Wave sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Wallet Libre asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wave against 5.0 for Wallet Libre. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wave has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Wave ships an update every 3 weeks, Wallet Libre every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wave | Wallet Libre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BUILD BY TWO & ONE LIMITED | Hsin-Yao Lin |
In-app purchases
Wave
- Wave Pro Monthly1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Wave Pro Yearly1 Month trial$49.991 Year
Wallet Libre
No in-app purchases









