PassDrop - Turn anything into an apple wallet pass
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PassDrop turns tickets, QR codes, membership cards, confirmations, or photographed documents into Apple Wallet passes in seconds. No user input is needed, simply forward the email to make@passdrop.app or use the website.
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Now, with OCR powered by Mistral, it works almost like magic. I can imagine Apple eventually adding this as a built-in feature in the Mail app — automatically scanning emails to create Wallet passes. But while we wait, we have PassDrop.
PassDrop sounds super handy for managing tickets and memberships! I love the idea of turning emails into Wallet passes quickly. Any plans for additional integrations in the future?
@alexis_luo Thanks! Sure - if people find this kind of solution helpful. There's also a B2B pathway: businesses that don't want to invest in custom development to create their own Wallet passes can use our API to generate passes directly from their existing tickets and send them to customers. We can also discuss white-labeling the passes if needed.
I definitely love it and would use. Apple Wallet is really great but many tickets are not compatible.
Good job!
Tom
@fargar thanks!
I love how seamless this is. Can it handle multiple attachments at once?
@matthew_flores1 Thanks! Yes, it does when using email. The limitations are 10 attachments and 10 MB total — standard for this legacy channel. When using the upload button on the website, you can upload a larger PDF, but you’ll need to use a tool like https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/merge-pdf.html to combine everything into a single file.
How does PassDrop keep the data in the emails secure and private especially when they contain sensitive travel or identity information?
@charlotte_richardson1 Hi. We ensure privacy by simply not storing anything - there’s literally no database or storage on our side. However, we do use Mistral and OpenAI, and they may log or store data. As a rule of thumb: if you wouldn’t share the information with ChatGPT or Mistral, don’t send it to us. Full details are in our Privacy Policy: https://www.passdrop.app/privacy
What a cool idea. What if the pass doesn’t format correctly can I make edits?
@benjamin_anderson3 Thanks! The idea is to keep this as simple and seamless as possible, so there's no edit functionality. However, keep in mind that the AI uses the information you provide to build the pass — so if you want it to include something extra, just add it to the email body.
Try it out: send an email to make@passdrop.app with something ridiculous, like:
"Entrance Code to the Batcave. Validity: through August 2025. Issued to: The Batman. Secret entrance QR code: ASFDFA123"
This is an amazing idea. Is there a way to convert multiple emails into Wallet passes all at once?
@lucas_edwards2 Thanks! I’ve thought about this before and decided not to reinvent the wheel. For this use case, you should use a tool like https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/merge-pdf.html to combine multiple PDFs into one file. If you’re dealing with emails, just copy all the relevant content into a single message.
It is amazing. Does it work with confirmation emails from services like Airbnb or OpenTable?
@lucas_edwards1 Thanks! I invite you to try it yourself — forward some of your old emails to make@passdrop.app. In my experience, the ones I get from Airbnb generally don’t work, as there’s nothing in them that can be turned into a pass — no QR codes or scannable data. Maybe yours are a better fit.
In general, I had to decide whether the system should generate a pass even if it's essentially useless (e.g. you send an email that just says "Hello world", and we create a pass with "Hello world" as the title and nothing else), or if it should reject inputs that don’t contain anything scannable — like a QR code or passcode. I chose the more practical route and made it reject passes with no QR codes.
I just gave it a try and wow it’s super fast and spot on. The conversion from a PDF airline ticket to an Apple Wallet pass was cleaner than I expected.
@matthew_phillips4 Great to hear! Feel free to share it with your friends — would be great to see more people using it.
I love the simplicity here just forwarding an email and instantly getting a usable Wallet pass is such a seamless process. Does it support loyalty cards with dynamic QR codes or those that have limited time expirations?
@nathaniel_cook2 Thanks! If the digital loyalty card rotates the QR code using some proprietary logic, there's nothing we can do to reverse-engineer it. In fact, the loyalty provider has deliberately chosen this approach to prevent you from using anything other than their official app.
What PassDrop does is take the QR code you provide and insert it into an Apple Wallet pass as-is.
Pros: we can ensure the conversion works universally.
Cons: if the QR code is useless, the generated pass will be useless as well.