# Pass Designer

- Link: https://100xfounder.com/startup/pass-designer/
- Published: 2026-10-03T09:43:21+05:30
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Pass Designer is a Mac app from Apple for designing Apple Wallet passes, such as
boarding passes, event tickets, coupons, store cards and membership cards. You start
from one of Apple’s templates or your own design, and a live preview shows the pass
exactly as it will appear on iPhone and Apple Watch, using the same rendering as
iOS and watchOS.

It covers six pass styles, including the new poster-style generic pass, and generates
eight barcode types, from QR and PDF417 to EAN-13. You can edit colours and fields,
add images at the sizes each pass needs, and edit the semantic tags that let Siri
Suggestions, Calendar and Maps understand a boarding pass or event ticket. It validates
your pass as you work, flagging missing keys, and can build a backward-compatible
version for older iOS releases.

Pass Designer saves a pass template, not a finished pass. To give a pass to customers,
you sign it with an Apple-issued certificate from an Apple developer account, using
Apple’s Pass Builder package or by hand. Apple introduced Pass Designer at WWDC26
and still labels it a beta. It appeared on Product Hunt on 4 October 2026, under
Apple’s product page, with 112 upvotes.

_We have not tested Pass Designer ourselves. This page brings together Apple’s product
page, documentation and WWDC session, its Product Hunt listing and the official 
pages of comparable services, and says where each fact comes from._