Point the camera at a barcode, choose one from a photo, or type the number in by hand, and a card joins the wallet with its own colour and its own kind — loyalty, gift card, membership, voucher or ticket. At the till it is the barcode itself, full screen and bright, on the phone or on Apple Watch with the phone left in a pocket. A gift card keeps its balance; a voucher keeps the date it runs out, with a reminder before that day comes. Optimised for iPhone Duo.
The queue is waiting, the phone is unlocked, and the loyalty card is a nine-digit number nobody behind the till can read off a screen.
Open Voucherlume and it is already the barcode itself, at the till's own brightness — on the phone, or already on the wrist.
One tap turns the card into nothing but its code — brightened, centred and large enough for any scanner, with the number underneath for the till that would rather type it. Close it and the card is exactly as it was.
Gift cards, memberships, vouchers and tickets — a boarding pass among them — sit beside loyalty cards in the same wallet, each in the code its issuer actually printed — EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 128, Code 39, ITF, QR, PDF417 or Aztec. A card already photographed is read from the picture; one that is not is typed in once.
A gift card or a voucher keeps its balance and its expiry beside its barcode, updated as you spend it. Set a reminder — a day, three, a week, a fortnight or a month before — and a real notification arrives on that morning, sound and all.
The Soon tab adds up what is left on every gift card and voucher and lists what expires soonest first, so a card bought for an occasion is spent before it lapses rather than found afterwards.
From an empty wallet to a card ready at the till, in under a minute. None of it needs a signal, and none of it needs an account.
Point the camera at its barcode, choose it from a photo already taken, or type the number in. Choose what kind of card it is.
So it reads as Corner Coffee Club in orange at a glance, not card number four in a list that all looks the same.
A gift card or a voucher keeps a balance and an expiry; choose how many days before that date a reminder should arrive.
Every card, and its barcode, arrive on Apple Watch on their own — nothing to open on the phone first.
One tap brightens the screen and the barcode fills it, ready for the scanner to read.
The free wallet apps are free because a shop, or an advertiser, is paying for a look at your cards. This one asks for nothing but the barcode.
| The question | The usual answer | Voucherlume |
|---|---|---|
| Where your cards live | On a server, under an account | On your iPhone, under no account at all |
| How it is paid for | Free, and watched by ads or offers | Three days free, then one payment |
| On your wrist | A number to read out, if it works at all | The barcode itself, drawn on the watch |
| A gift card's balance | Whatever you remember or the receipt said | Kept on the card, updated by hand as you spend it |
| A voucher about to expire | Found when it already has | A local reminder, days before, with its own sound |
| Every kind of code | The common few | Ten families, from a single EAN to a stacked PDF417 |
The barcode itself arrives on Apple Watch — not a number to type in — so the phone can stay in a pocket at the till.
EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 128, Code 39, ITF, QR, PDF417 and Aztec, drawn sharp enough for any scanner.
A gift card's balance and a voucher's expiry are tracked on the card, not remembered by you.
A real notification, with its own sound, days before a voucher or a membership lapses.
Lock the whole wallet with Face ID if you like, and it is asked each time you come back to it. The PIN that spends a card lives in the Keychain, never with the card itself, and is shown only behind Face ID.
Set the appearance once in Settings, or leave it to follow the phone's own.
Then one payment, and nothing renews.
Every card arrives on Apple Watch with its barcode already drawn — the same code a phone would show, full size, ready for the scanner. Add a card, change one or put one away on the iPhone, and the watch has the latest without being asked.
No account and nothing to sign up for. Try the whole app for three days; then it asks once, and you decide.
Download on the App StorePrices are shown on the App Store, in your own currency. Three days free, then a month or a year at a time — cancel any time in Settings on your iPhone.
Yes. Every card is drawn on the device, and reading a barcode from the camera or from a photo happens on the device too. Aeroplane mode changes nothing about any of it.
Yes — point the camera at the barcode itself; reading it does not need a number underneath. Type one in as well, if it has one, so the card can be found by search later.
No, once a card has arrived on it. The watch keeps its own copy of every card and its barcode, so it works with the phone left behind, out of reach or turned off.
In the device's Keychain, apart from the card itself, so a backup or a synced copy of the app's own data would never carry it. Revealing it asks for Face ID, Touch ID or the passcode, every time. The whole app can be locked the same way, in Settings › Privacy.
Three days free, with nothing charged and nothing to cancel. After that, one payment on the App Store unlocks Voucherlume for good — nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel later.
Apple takes the payment, so this developer never sees a card or a name.
The purchase belongs to your Apple Account. On another iPhone signed in to it, open Voucherlume and choose Restore purchase in Settings. Nothing is charged again.
Alpenlume, in Switzerland. Support is one e-mail address and a person who answers it.
Payments, refunds and cancellations
Apple takes every payment for this app. That means Apple — and only Apple — can look a charge up, stop a subscription or give a refund. This developer never sees a card, a name or a payment, and has no way to change one.
Cancelling is done at the App Store, and nowhere else. Open the App Store, tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next payment; what you have already paid for runs to the end of its period. Do it at least 24 hours before the period ends, or that renewal goes through anyway.
What Voucherlume does not do
It does not scan a card at the till for you, redeem anything, or tell a shop that you were there. It does not check a gift card's balance against the till's own record, and it gives no advice about which loyalty programme is worth joining. It holds the card, draws its code, and reminds you before a date passes.
Open Voucherlume on the iPhone once with both devices nearby — the whole wallet, barcodes included, is sent to the watch the moment they are next in range of each other, and needs no further action.
A purchase belongs to your Apple Account, not to one device. On a new phone, or after reinstalling, open the app and choose Restore on the purchase screen. Nothing is charged again.
Open the App Store, tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. That is the only place a subscription can be stopped — this app cannot do it for you, because Apple takes the money. Cancelling stops the next payment and leaves the period you have already paid for running to its end. A one-time purchase never renews and has nothing to cancel.
Still stuck? Write to alpenlume@gmail.com — say which app, which iPhone or iPad, and what you expected to happen.
Last updated 10 September 2026.
The short version
Voucherlume collects nothing, sends nothing and has no account. Your cards, their codes and their numbers stay on your device and on your own Apple Watch.
Every card, its barcode, its balance and its expiry live in the app's own storage on your device — the same storage Apple Watch is sent. A gift card's PIN lives apart, in the device's own Keychain, and is shown only behind Face ID. There is no account, no server and nothing to sign into, so there is no copy of your cards anywhere else.
Nothing. This app has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no crash reporting service and no tracking of any kind. No profile is built and nothing is shared with anyone.
This app has no server of its own: nothing to sign in to, and nothing uploaded to the developer, ever. What it does with the internet — for most of these apps, nothing at all — is set out under “On your device” above.
Two things do use the internet, and both are somebody else's. The App Store does, when you buy, subscribe or restore. And when you share something — a dish, a recipe, a document — iOS hands it to the app you picked, whether that is Messages, Mail or WhatsApp, and that app sends it over its own connection under its own privacy policy. Nothing is sent unless you press send, and this app never learns where it went.
Buying is handled entirely by Apple. The app never sees a card number, a name or an address; it asks the App Store one question — whether this Apple Account owns the app — and receives yes or no. Apple's own privacy policy governs the transaction.
This app is not directed at children and collects nothing from anybody, so there is nothing held about a child to disclose, correct or delete.
Data protection law gives you the right to see, correct, export and erase personal data held about you. Because none is held, there is nothing to produce or delete on request. Everything the app has is on your own device: deleting the app removes it, and it was never anywhere else.
If this policy ever changes it will be dated above. It will not be changed retroactively, because there is no collected data for a change to newly permit.
