Comparison

Mobile Label Printer vs LabelDeck

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

Head to head
About

Mobile Label Printer

Features
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Mobile Label Printer is a simple and practical barcode label printing app designed for businesses that need fast item lookup, label preview, and mobile printing. The app helps users scan or enter barcodes, view item details, design labels, save templates, and print labels directly from supported printers. Main features: • Scan barcodes using the device camera • Enter barcode values manually • View product and price information • Create and preview barcode labels • Save and reuse label templates • Print labels using supported label printers • Adjust label size, scale, and positioning • Work with business item and price data Mobile Label Printer is built for retail stores, warehouses, and business users who need a quick way to prepare and print item labels from a mobile device.

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

Mobile Label Printer4 screens
LabelDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Mobile Label Printer at 3 against LabelDeck's 1. Mobile Label Printer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Mobile Label Printer versus LabelDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMobile Label PrinterLabelDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSoftwave Computer SystemsBMP Research LLC

In-app purchases

None

Mobile Label Printer

No in-app purchases

None

LabelDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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