Comparison

Wrist Codes vs LabelDeck

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

Head to head
About

Wrist Codes

Easily store and access your loyalty cards, membership passes, and QR codes on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Quickly scan or manually enter codes, then display them directly from your watch face, widgets, or the app for seamless scanning.

Highlights
  • Store barcodes on iPhone
  • Scan or manually enter codes
  • Sync to Apple Watch
  • Display on watch face complications
  • Full-screen barcode view
  • Customize watch complications
Features
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Wrist Codes keeps your everyday barcodes close at hand on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Add loyalty cards, membership cards, passes, QR codes, and other scan codes, then open them quickly from the app, an iPhone widget, an Apple Watch widget, or a watch face complication. Features: • Store frequently used barcodes on your iPhone • Scan a barcode with the camera or enter it manually • Sync saved barcodes to Apple Watch • Display barcodes directly on Apple Watch through widgets, complications, or the app • Display barcodes on your iPhone through widgets or the app • Customize the small complication's letters and color • Style the large complication: white card or straight on the watch face, with or without the name and number, in white or your watch face's tint • View barcodes full screen for easier scanning Wrist Codes is designed for the codes you need often, without digging through apps or your wallet.

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

Wrist Codes4 screens
LabelDeck4 screens

Verdict

The call

Wrist Codes and LabelDeck are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wrist Codes against 5.0 for LabelDeck. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Wrist Codes versus LabelDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrist CodesLabelDeck
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVitalii PetrychukBMP Research LLC

Customer experience

Wrist Codes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LabelDeck

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Wrist Codes

No in-app purchases

None

LabelDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wrist Codes free?
Wrist Codes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LabelDeck free?
LabelDeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wrist Codes or LabelDeck?
Wrist Codes and LabelDeck are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Wrist Codes or LabelDeck have ads?
Neither Wrist Codes nor LabelDeck shows ads.

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