Cardoodle vs CardBox Wallet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cardoodle
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Cardoodle is a free, open-source loyalty card wallet for iPhone and Apple Watch. Store all your loyalty cards, membership cards, and discount cards in one place. SCAN OR TYPE Add cards instantly by scanning their barcode with your camera, or enter the number manually. Supports QR, Code 128, EAN-13, EAN-8, Code 39, PDF417, and Aztec barcodes. USE AT CHECKOUT Tap a card to display its barcode fullscreen at maximum brightness — ready for any store scanner. Works even without an internet connection. APPLE WATCH Browse your cards and display barcodes right from your wrist. Cards sync automatically from your iPhone. STAY ORGANIZED Name your cards, assign colors and icons, add notes, and photograph the front and back of physical cards. Pin your favorites to the top for quick access. SYNC WITH ICLOUD Optionally sync your cards across all your Apple devices via your private iCloud account. Sync is off by default — your choice, always. WIDGETS Add a Cardoodle widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen to see your most recently used card at a glance, or pin a favorite card you always want one tap away. Tapping a widget jumps straight to the fullscreen barcode — no list, no search. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Cardoodle now shows up in the Shortcuts app. Build an automation that opens your Starbucks card when you arrive at the café, drop a card on an NFC tag by the coffee machine, or just say "Show my Migros card" to Siri. The same intents work on Apple Watch. SPOTLIGHT SEARCH Swipe down on the Home Screen, type a card name, tap the result. The fullscreen barcode opens straight away — no need to open Cardoodle first. Lock screen search works the same way. WATCH COMPLICATIONS - Favourite Card complication — Pin a card you choose to your watch face. One tap opens its barcode at full brightness, ready for the scanner. Pick it in the iPhone app at Settings → Apple Watch. - Recent Card complication — Shows whichever card you used most recently. No setup — it follows you. PRIVACY FIRST No accounts. No analytics. No advertising. No third-party SDKs. Your data stays on your device (or in your private iCloud if you choose). Cardoodle is fully open source — inspect the code yourself.
CardBox Wallet
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Your wallet, on your iPhone. And nowhere else. CardBox holds the cards you actually carry — bank and payment cards, ID cards, your driver's license, vehicle registration, transit passes, loyalty and membership cards — as a deck you flick through with your thumb. Scan a card and CardBox straightens it, cleans it up, and reads the details off the front. All of that happens on your iPhone. There's no account to create, no server to sync with, and nothing watching what you do. CardBox contains no networking code at all. SCAN IT ONCE • Point the camera at your card, or pick a photo you already have • Drag the four corners onto the card and it's flattened out square • Brightness, saturation and denoise sliders to clean up the result • The original scan is kept, so you can re-adjust later without ever degrading it IT KNOWS WHAT IT'S LOOKING AT CardBox recognises ten kinds of card and fills in the fields each one actually carries — number and expiry for a bank card, valid-till and vehicle class for a licence, chassis and engine number for an RC. Guessed wrong? Change the type in a tap and the fields follow. A DECK, NOT A LIST Your cards fan out like a hand you're holding. Drag to browse. Tap to bring one forward, tap again to lift it out. Swipe to flip it over. Long-press for everything saved on it. BEHIND YOUR FACE Ask for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode before CardBox opens, before a card is shared, and before a backup is imported. If Face ID fails it falls back to your passcode, so a bad scan can never lock you out of your own cards. SHARE WITHOUT EXPOSING Send a card to someone and it travels encrypted with AES-GCM, behind aand give them the code separately. Without it, the file is unreadable. YOURS TO KEEP • Export any card as a PDF • Back up your whole wallet to Files, or to iCloud Drive if you want it on your other devices • Delete the app and your cards go with it PRIVACY, PLAINLY No servers. No account. No analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs, no cloud sync. Text recognition runs on Apple's Vision framework, entirely on your device. We never see your cards because there is nowhere for them to go. The honest flip side: we can't recover them for you either. Make a backup. CARDBOX PLUS Free wallets hold five cards and one card share a month. CardBox Plus is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — and unlocks: • Unlimited cards • PDF export • Unlimited card sharing CardBox is a place to keep your cards, not a payment app. It can't tap, pay, or stand in for the real thing at a counter. Requires iPhone running iOS 18 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Cardoodle at 3 against CardBox Wallet's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
| Parameter | Cardoodle | CardBox Wallet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aykut Aras | Prantosh Pran Bhattacharyya |
In-app purchases
Cardoodle
No in-app purchases
CardBox Wallet
No in-app purchases









