Apple Wallet · Built for organizers, not enterprises

Your meetup deserves
a real ticket.

Apple Wallet passes are locked behind Apple Developer accounts, signing certificates, and engineering teams most organizers don't have. Carte makes them one tap away — for the run club, the warehouse show, the rooftop dinner, the open mic.

carteMeetup
Event
Sunset Run Club
Where
Pier 35
When
Fri · 7 PM

The problem

Apple Wallet was built for airlines and stadiums.

If you're running a 40-person warehouse show, an indie meetup, or a community potluck, you don't have an engineering team and you shouldn't need one. Today, shipping a single Wallet pass requires:

01
An Apple Developer account

$99 / year, business verification, weeks of back-and-forth.

02
A Pass Type ID certificate

X.509 chain, private keys, manual cert renewal every year.

03
PassKit bundling

ZIP layouts, SHA-1 manifests, PKCS#7 detached signatures, WWDR intermediates.

04
iOS 26 schema knowledge

Semantic tags, preferredStyleSchemes, asset slot conventions Apple barely documents.

That's why Wallet passes still feel like a Delta thing or a Ticketmaster thing — and not a your-friend-throwing-a-show thing.

What Carte does

One studio. Real .pkpass. No certs, no code.

Designed, not generated

Hand-tuned typography and layout. Looks like something a brand designer made, not a template engine.

Real Apple Wallet

Cryptographically signed PassKit bundles. Tap to add. Lives next to your boarding passes — not a screenshot of a QR.

Built for organizers

Type the event, drop a flyer, share a link. Your guests add it to Wallet without ever seeing the word 'certificate.'

Made for

The long tail of good gatherings.

run clubswarehouse showsopen micssupper clubsbook launchescommunity potlucksindie film nightshouse partiesart openingsrooftop dinnersskill sharespop-ups

Make your first pass.

Sixty seconds in the studio. Add to Apple Wallet on the way out.

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