waivers.tattoo vs Wavrr: what the App Store charges, and what a shop pays here

Search the App Store for a tattoo waiver app and the first result is Wavrr. Its in-app purchases, as the listing read on 2026-09-15, put the Artist plan at $189.99 a year. This week a shop owner asked on our ad whether a promo code would bring 189 a year down to what we charge. There is no promo code, because there is no 189. Ours is $50 a year for the whole shop, and the 189 was never ours. Here is where the two products stand, off Wavrr's own pricing page as it read on 2026-09-10 and its App Store listing as it read on 2026-09-15.

I make one of these two products, so read the numbers rather than me. Every figure below is on the vendor's own page, linked where I state it.

The same plan, two prices

Wavrr sells its plans in two places, and they do not cost the same. Their pricing page shows one set of numbers. The App Store shows another.

Ours is $50 a year per shop, or $5 a month. Unlimited waivers, unlimited artists, and one price wherever you find it, because there is only one place to find it: your shop's own page.

A shop that installs the app and taps upgrade sees the App Store number. A shop that signs up on their website sees the lower one. The gap between the two columns is what an app store costs, and the shop pays it.

The meter is artists

Wavrr's pricing page says it plainly: "Unlimited consent forms on every plan." The next sentence says the only thing that changes between plans is how many artists you are covering. So 1 artist is $173.50 a year, and the day a second chair fills, the plan is Studio at $394, or $519.99 through the app.

We do not count artists, and we do not count your waivers either. A 3-chair shop and a 1-chair shop pay the same $50, and the guest artist working your convention weekend signs clients in on the same page as everyone else.

What the form asks

Wavrr's home page describes its form in its own words: "Not a fixed template. Create consent forms that match your studio, your workflow, and your local laws". Its FAQ adds the other half: "tattoo consent form and release form requirements vary by state and local jurisdiction. Studios should review their template with local legal counsel." Read together, that is the honest description of a form builder. You write the questions, you decide what your state requires, and you pay a lawyer to check your work.

Ours ships knowing. The form asks what your state's rule requires, because we read all 51 sets of rules and wrote them into the form. Oregon is the plainest example: its rule reaches things a generic template never asks, so a shop in Oregon gets those questions and a shop in Florida does not. Every state has its own page with the rule and the citation beside it.

This is a plain-language summary, not legal advice. Your local health department has the final word. Ask them, and bring your records.

Nothing to install, on either side of the counter

On this point the two products agree about the client. Wavrr signs clients on their own phone by link or QR code, and so do we. The difference is the shop's side. Wavrr's studio side is an app, and its pages say so: "Download iOS + Android app". Ours is a web page too. The owner signs in from any browser, an artist signs in from theirs once the owner turns that on, and nothing on either side of the counter goes through a store.

That is also why there is one price. An app store sits between a shop and what it pays. A web page does not.

What comes with the price

Every shop on ours gets the signed waiver in its inbox the moment the client finishes, a client list it can export as a CSV any day including the day it leaves, a thank-you with the aftercare sheet sent to the client the moment they sign, an option to invite clients to leave you a Google review the day after their visit, and 1,000 emails a month to its own clients. None of that is a tier.

Switching

Your QR code changes and nothing else about your counter does. Clients scan the new code, fill the form on their phone, and sign. Wavrr's pricing page promises "Easy exports for audits or insurance", so your history comes with you.

Start your shop, put the new code out on a quiet morning, and keep the old one until the first client has signed on the new page. The first waivers are free, and we ask for a card once you have seen it work on a real Saturday.

There is one price for ours, and it is the one on the ad, because the ad and the page are the same place. If a screen ever shows you 189, that screen is not ours.