waivers.tattoo vs Tattoo Release Forms (TRF): the iPad, or the phone in their hand

TRF has been on tattoo shop counters longer than almost anything else digital, it was built by a tattooer, and shops that use it like it. It runs on an iPad. That one fact decides most of what is different between us, and it is worth thinking about before the prices.

Their pricing page, as it stood on 2026-09-10, lists 3 plans:

Ours is $50 a year per shop, or $5 a month, with unlimited waivers and unlimited artists and no device to count.

The iPad is the product

TRF's own pricing and features page is straight about this: "Other tablet support and TRF web app coming soon!" Today the client signs on an iPad you own and hand across the counter.

That works, and shops have run it for years. It also puts a piece of hardware in the middle of every client. The iPad has to be charged, unlocked, wiped down, and physically where the client is. One iPad takes one client at a time, so the number of iPads on your plan is really the number of clients who can be filling in a form at once. 2 walk-ins and an appointment at 2pm on a Saturday is a queue at the desk, and the tier that fixes the queue is the one that costs more.

Then there is the part nobody plans for. The iPad walks off to a station, the battery dies mid-form, the screen is covered in ink and green soap, or somebody drops it. Every one of those is a client standing at your counter with nothing to sign.

Ours is the phone already in their hand

A QR code sits by the register. The client scans it, your own page opens at your address, and they fill the form standing wherever they are standing. 3 people can do it at the same time. There is nothing to charge, nothing to install, nothing to clean, and nothing to replace when it hits the floor.

The signed waiver lands in your inbox the moment they finish and the client goes on your list. If somebody would rather not use their phone, hand them yours or the shop tablet and open the same page. It is a web page, so any device with a browser is a kiosk when you need one.

What the form asks

TRF is built for tattoo shops, which puts it ahead of every generic waiver tool on vocabulary. What no tattoo form app ships, as far as I can find, is the state rule itself.

Every state writes its own requirements about what the consent form has to carry, what you have to ask, and how long the record stays in the file. We read all 51 sets and wrote them into the form, so the questions change with your shop's address rather than with a template you maintain. A shop in Oregon gets what Oregon's rule reaches for. A shop in Texas gets Texas's.

The form also runs in Spanish, suggests the client's address as they type it, takes the ID photo, and prints the consent in the language they read.

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

Your records

Both of us give you the signed waiver. Ours keeps a client list that builds itself out of the waivers and exports it as a CSV whenever you want it, the day you leave included.

Switching

Nobody has to relearn anything. Print the code, put it where the iPad used to sit, and keep the iPad as a backup for the client who does not want to use their phone.

Your old signed forms stay yours. Export them from TRF, keep the file, and start the new ones here. The first waivers are free and we ask for a card once you know it fits your counter. Start your shop.