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

Who each is best for

Stamp Me (established 2011) is a feature-rich loyalty app built around a downloadable consumer app. Its real strengths are gamification (Scratch & Win, Random Rewards) and tap-to-stamp hardware like the StampPod, a friction-free way to stamp at the counter. 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 11 languages.

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. Stamp Me's own comparison points out that FaveCard's free card is saved "through a browser link" as if it were a drawback, but for a busy counter it is the opposite: a link a customer taps once beats "download our app and search for us."

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 $0, 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 (free until your first 30 customers). See the pricing page for plans.

3. Native wallet passes, where Stamp Me says "coming soon"

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. Stamp Me lists wallet storage as "coming soon" and today keeps the card inside its own app on every tier.

4. Bring customers back, not just count visits

On a paid plan, FaveCard actively brings customers back: automated birthday offers, promotion campaigns pushed to the wallet card, and one-tap Google review requests after a visit. This is the axis Stamp Me's comparison attacks us on, so it is worth being clear that these are real, shipped features, not just a stamp counter.

5. In your customers' language

FaveCard's interface and customer pages run in 11 languages. Stamp Me's app surfaces around five, with an English-only marketing site.

When to choose Stamp Me instead

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

• You want gamification. Scratch & Win and Random Rewards are built in; FaveCard offers reward types, not games.
• You want tap-to-stamp hardware. The StampPod and Stamp Tag give a friction-free counter tap that FaveCard does not offer.
• You want native SMS marketing as a built-in channel.
• You want a long track record, Stamp Me has been running since 2011.

If you would rather start free, keep your customers off yet another app, and add native wallet passes when you are ready, FaveCard is the stronger choice. Fairly, Stamp Me's own comparison calls FaveCard's free plan "a genuinely useful starting point" with a "straightforward setup".

How we verified this: Stamp Me's plans and features were checked on their pricing page, how-it-works page, and App Store listing in July 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before relying on them.