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Apple Pass Designer

Apple Pass Designer

soheilpro

Comments (103)

  • pastel8739
    What do people find interesting about this? This doesn’t seem at all significant to me
  • pradn
    There are free, web-based wizards to create PKPass-format Apple Wallet passes. This one was posted on HN a few months ago.https://walletwallet.alen.ro/
  • mortenjorck
    The one thing I hope Apple has added to the pass framework is the ability to semantically define a barcode area.This would enable them to finally have Wallet show ONLY that rectangle at a suddenly blinding brightness level (on HDR displays) for the scanner, rather than cranking up the entire screen.
  • frabert
    Haha this is bizzarely specific to my back-of-the woods brain. Feels like something that would be super relevant to someone in San Francisco but not as much to me
  • rock_artist
    > Pass Designer beta requires macOS 27 or laterInteresting if this is due to concrete reason or not.
  • cyanbane
    Even though they call it pass, this can really be used for a ton of things. Neat addition to the ecosystem, I never would have thought of putting it in the hands of normal users.
  • mglvsky
    I've lurked about PKPASS[1] file format a little bit, sounds like any vibecoder can make editor of those files, but maybe I am missing something (verification?)[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKPASS
  • JMiao
    anyone not on ios 27 — i can recommend an app called “offline cards.” straightforward, clean way to add physical cards to ios wallet.
  • ajkjk
    Does it run on non-Apple devices also? If not...
  • deepfriedchokes
    Would love to see a generative AI tool that can integrate the QR/barcode into the artwork itself. Maybe in the next version… Maybe someone could vibe code that.
  • philo23
    Also worth mentioning that they added an easy way to make passes directly in the wallet app on iOS 27, you can basically scan in existing barcodes and qr codes.
  • amelius
    Why does my hardware vendor need to get into designing passes?What is next, ASUS making electric bike motors?
  • nater5000
    Slow news day on HN, I guess.
  • imagetic
    I didn't have this on my bingo card either. Ugh.
  • j45
    This is genuinely interesting. It's possible in other ways but being able to use your phone as a building access key in some cases would be great.
  • GodelNumbering
    Hard to root for something that only serves to entrench the monopoly further
  • mmmlinux
    Apple bad brigade going hard in here.
  • benatkin
    These are reminiscent of NFTs, they are things you can collect, mass generated.