TAG · 6 REVIEWS
Payments
Every App Comrade review tagged Payments, across every platform.
Starbucks turned its app into the company's most valuable bank.
Mobile Order & Pay, a stored-value card holding over a billion dollars in customer prepayments, and a Rewards program tuned for repeat behavior. The app is the chain.
MAY 11, 2026
PayPal stopped pretending it was just a checkout button.
The 2024 home-screen redesign reframed the app as a wallet — balance, Pay Later, rewards, crypto, savings — and most of it actually fits.
MAY 10, 2026
Cash App keeps adding storefronts to a checkout counter.
What started as the simplest way to send a friend twenty bucks now wants to be your bank, your broker, your Bitcoin wallet, and your buy-now-pay-later, and the seams are starting to show.
MAY 10, 2026
PayPal on Android is the payments app you already have an account for.
Twenty-plus years of installed base, a Honey-powered discount layer, crypto, BNPL, and a debit card stapled on. The 4.25 rating is the honest one.
MAY 10, 2026
Cash App is the wallet your friends already use, for better and worse.
Block's all-in-one money app started as P2P, added a debit card, then Bitcoin, then stocks, then a free tax filer. It does a lot — and the support story has not kept up.
MAY 10, 2026
Venmo still acts like a social network that happens to move money.
PayPal's flagship peer-to-peer app finally lets you keep transactions private by default, adds a credit card and a debit card on top of the wallet, and remains the verb most under-30 Americans reach for when splitting a bar tab.
MAY 10, 2026