Pass Designer is a macOS tool for building Apple Wallet passes - boarding passes, event tickets, loyalty cards, coupons, and more - aimed at designers and businesses of any size. It provides Apple-supplied templates or lets you import artwork from your preferred design apps, then edit pass content, colors, and layouts. A live preview shows exactly how passes will render on iPhone and Apple Watch because it uses the same rendering engine as iOS and watchOS. Designs can take advantage of the latest Wallet capabilities while remaining backward compatible for older devices.
The tool enforces correct pass structure with on-the-fly validation that flags missing keys or unexpected definitions. Each pass type exposes editable standard fields, and semantic tags for boarding passes and event tickets let you embed structured data (dates, venues, flight details) that powers Siri Suggestions, Calendar integration, and Maps directions. Pass Designer lets you edit semantic tags in the UI, compare semantic and non-semantic versions side by side, and automatically generate a backward-compatible pass structure from semantic data. A beta requires macOS 27 and Apple account sign-in to download; documentation and resources are available for developers.
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