Stamp Me vs FaveCard: The Free, No-App Alternative

Who each is best for

Stamp Me (backed, it says, by 15+ years of digital loyalty experience) is a loyalty app with a lot built in, centred on an app your customers download. Its real strengths are gamification (Scratch & Win, Random Rewards), tap-to-stamp hardware for a quick tap at the counter (the StampTag on every plan, the StampPod from its Pro plan), and unlimited staff logins on every plan. If those matter to you, Stamp Me is a genuine option.

FaveCard is the better fit if you want a loyalty card that is free to start and that your customers can use with no app to download. It puts the card on their phone through a link, adds native Apple and Google Wallet passes on a paid plan, and runs in 19 languages (business page in 32).

Where FaveCard pulls ahead

1. No app for your customers, Stamp Me makes them download one

This is the biggest practical difference. With Stamp Me, each customer downloads the Stamp Me app and finds your business inside a shared, multi-business app. With FaveCard, the card arrives as a link and opens on the phone with nothing to install.

2. A genuinely free plan

Stamp Me has no free plan; after a 30-day trial its entry Lite plan is $49/month in the US (€29 in the EU, £39 in the UK — Stamp Me's pricing). FaveCard's free plan runs forever, at no cost, with unlimited customers, a card your customers keep on their phone, full colour, and flexible reward types. Apple and Google Wallet passes and branding come on a paid plan, and every new account can try them free before paying. See the pricing page for plans.

3. The card itself in the wallet, with no app first

On a paid plan, FaveCard adds a native Apple and Google Wallet pass, the card sits in the phone's wallet with a one-tap experience. With Stamp Me, customers first install the Stamp Me app and join there; after that they can save a member code to Apple or Google Wallet and show it at the counter.

4. Bring customers back, and ask for Google reviews

On the Business plan, FaveCard brings customers back: automated birthday offers, promotion campaigns pushed to the wallet card, and one-tap Google review requests after a visit. Stamp Me offers birthday and lapsed-customer campaigns, push notifications and SMS on its Pro plan; we did not find Google review requests on its Features or pricing pages.

5. In your customers' language

FaveCard runs in 19 languages: the dashboard, the staff app, e-mails and Wallet passes. Its business page, where customers join, runs in 32. Stamp Me's App Store listing shows English.

When to choose Stamp Me instead

An honest read, because Stamp Me has genuine strengths FaveCard does not match:

• You want gamification. Scratch & Win (on Pro and up) and Random Rewards are built in; FaveCard offers reward types, not games.
• You want tap-to-stamp hardware. The StampTag (every plan) and the StampPod (Pro and up) give a friction-free counter tap that FaveCard does not offer.
• You want SMS and automated campaigns. SMS, push notifications, the Birthday Club and lapsed-customer campaigns come with Stamp Me's Pro plan.
• Your whole team needs its own login. Every Stamp Me plan includes unlimited staff logins. On FaveCard, the Free and Pro plans are owner only, and staff accounts come with the Business plan.
• You want Zapier. Stamp Me's Pro plan pushes member data to mailing-list and CRM apps through Zapier; FaveCard has no integrations today.
• You sell takeaway or packaged goods. OneStamps, single-use codes you can put on products or packaging, are on every Stamp Me plan.
• You want a long track record. Stamp Me cites 15+ years of digital loyalty experience.

If you would rather start free, not ask your customers to install an app, and add native wallet passes when you are ready, FaveCard is the stronger choice.

How we verified this: We make FaveCard. Stamp Me's plans and what they include were checked on 17 October 2026 on its pricing page, how-it-works page, Features page, article on Apple and Google Wallet and App Store listing. FaveCard's plans were checked against our product on the same day. We checked these sources again on 22 October 2026 and found no change to the facts on this page. The same day we took Stamp Me's business figure from its homepage, in its own words; it does not say whether it counts businesses signed up or active. FaveCard's business numbers come from our own records (FaveCard in numbers): 2,000+ counts the businesses that gave stamps to at least two different customers in the last 30 days (22 September – 21 October 2026), and 80+ the countries where those businesses are based (the country in each business's FaveCard profile; countries, not territories). As of October 2026. Prices and plans change, so check the source before relying on them.