Comparison

e vs LabelDeck

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

Head to head
About

e

Features
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e-chain helps you design and write artwork to supported NFC-powered e-paper keychain displays. Choose your Waveshare 1.54-inch panel, add a photo or text, tune brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure, sharpness, dithering, and panel colors, then send the finished image by holding your iPhone near the NFC tag. Features: - Supports Waveshare 1.54-inch NFC-powered e-paper B and G panels - Photo import with live e-paper preview - Text overlays with repeat and spacing controls - Three-color and four-color panel palettes - Dithering and direct color modes - Local saved drafts and recent images - NFC write progress with clear status updates

About

LabelDeck

Print labels directly from your iPhone to ZPL-compatible printers on your local network. Compose, save, and reuse label designs with customizable text and barcodes. Features include network scanning, live printer status, and fill-in-the-blank fields for variable data.

Highlights
  • Network printer discovery
  • Live printer status monitoring
  • Customizable label design
  • Multi-line text and font sizing
  • Code 128 and QR barcode generation
  • Fill-in-the-blank variable fields
  • Label import and export
Features
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Print labels straight from your iPhone to the label printer on your network. LabelDeck speaks ZPL directly to your printer over Wi-Fi. There is no cloud service in the middle, no account to create, and nothing to install on a computer. FIND YOUR PRINTER • Sweep your network and list every label printer that answers • Or enter an IP address directly — for a printer on another subnet, or with network discovery switched off • Detect Settings asks the printer to describe itself and fills in the form, marking which values are measured facts and which are only settings • Live status: ready, out of media, head open, paused, labels remaining • Mark one printer as the default and it is preselected everywhere COMPOSE A LABEL • Multi-line text, wrapped to the printable width • Font size in points, converted against each printer's own print density — the same saved label comes out the same physical size on a 203 and a 300 dpi unit • Auto-Fit picks the largest size that still fits, allowing for a barcode • Left, center, right and justified alignment • Rotate 0°, 90°, 180° or 270° • Code 128 and QR barcodes, sized to fit automatically • 1 to 99 copies • Live preview, and the exact command stream on request before anything is sent SAVE AND REUSE Keep any label you compose and reopen it later to edit. Import labels designed elsewhere — from the printer's own storage, from a file, from the clipboard, or through the share sheet. FILL-IN-THE-BLANK FIELDS Label design software bakes the sample text you typed at design time into the export as fixed data. Normally the fix is opening the file in a text editor. LabelDeck lists every text and barcode value it finds, and you tap the ones that should be variable and name them. Printing then shows a short form of just those fields, remembers the values you used last time, and previews the filled label before sending. Labels pulled from the printer's own storage arrive with their variable fields already declared and named, so there is nothing to mark by hand. Text that no longer fits is shrunk to fit, and the app tells you which field it shrank — rather than letting a long value run off the edge of the label. PRIVACY Your labels, templates and printer list stay on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, and nothing you create is uploaded anywhere. COMPATIBILITY Requires a label printer that accepts ZPL over a raw TCP connection on your local network — including Zebra® ZD and ZT series. Bluetooth and USB-only printers are not supported. LabelDeck is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Zebra Technologies Corporation. Zebra and ZPL are trademarks of Zebra Technologies Corporation.

Screenshots

e1 screens
LabelDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LabelDeck at 18.0 against e's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
e versus LabelDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereLabelDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuigi GrecoBMP Research LLC

In-app purchases

None

e

No in-app purchases

None

LabelDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is e free?
e is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LabelDeck free?
LabelDeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do e or LabelDeck have ads?
Neither e nor LabelDeck shows ads.

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