Best tattoo waiver app for your tattoo shop: 7 compared, read at their own pages

Search for the best tattoo waiver app and you'll find lists written by the apps on them. Wavrr's own list of the 8 best puts Wavrr first. This one is written by one of them too: I make waivers.tattoo. So read the pages rather than me. Every claim below about another product links to that product's own page as it read on 2026-10-18, and where one of them does something ours doesn't, it says so.

The 7 are the ones a tattoo shop meets in a search, an ad or the App Store. 2 are built for tattoo and piercing shops, Wavrr and waivers.tattoo. 1 is free: StabPad, a web form a piercer gives away. And 4 are waiver products built for every kind of business: Smartwaiver, WaiverSign, WaiverForever and Waiver Electronic.

What does a tattoo waiver app cost a tattoo shop?

It depends on what the app counts. 4 of the 7 count your waivers: Smartwaiver, WaiverSign, WaiverForever and Waiver Electronic each sell a monthly allowance, so a busy month costs more than a quiet one. Smartwaiver raised its prices on 2026-10-08, its first change in nearly 4 years, to $22 a month for up to 100 signed waivers and $60 for up to 300. Near the cap, its help center says, you get "a reminder to upgrade to avoid a disruption in service." WaiverSign's Professional plan is $49 a month for 250, and its pricing page charges "just $0.15 per waiver" past that.

WaiverForever's plans are $19, $39 and $129 a month with the first 50 submissions free, then a usage charge in $5 steps, which its own example puts at $44.00 a month on the $39 plan. Waiver Electronic's 2 smallest plans go up in their second year, its pricing page says: Basic from $11.99 to $14.99 a month, and Starter from $34.99 to $49.99.

Wavrr counts artists: $14.50 a month for 1 and $39.50 for a studio. Its pricing page prints no yearly price, only what a yearly plan saves, and in the App Store the same 2 plans are $189.99 and $519.99 a year. StabPad is free.

Ours counts nothing. It's $50 a year for the shop, or $5 a month, with unlimited waivers and unlimited artists, so a convention weekend costs what a slow Tuesday does. What a 300-a-month shop pays on 9 of these, plan by plan, is its own post.

Do your tattoo clients have to download anything?

No, on any of the 7. Wavrr's current ads say it in so many words, "The tattoo waiver app your clients don't have to download" (Meta's Ad Library), and its help pages agree: "Your client never installs anything and never makes an account." On that point Wavrr and waivers.tattoo are the same.

The difference is on your side, and whether anyone hands a client a tablet. Smartwaiver offers a free kiosk app for an iPad or an Android tablet that keeps collecting signatures offline, and WaiverForever's and Waiver Electronic's kiosk apps work offline too. WaiverSign's link opens on any phone, and for a kiosk its kiosk page recommends a locked-down browser app. StabPad's help page has you type the form's address into a tablet's browser and bookmark it. Wavrr's dashboard runs in a browser, with apps for iPhone, iPad and Android for a shop that wants one.

Ours is a web page on both sides. Your client signs on their own phone, and you open your dashboard in any browser. Nothing goes through an app store, so there's one price, and it's the one on the site.

Does the form ask your state's questions?

On ours it does. We read the tattoo and piercing rules of all 50 states and DC and wrote what each one asks into the form, so your waiver form follows your shop's state. A shop in Georgia, for one, gets a question about whether the client has eaten in the last 4 hours and a line for the artist's own signature, because Georgia's rule asks for both. Every state has its own page, with the rule's words and the citation beside them.

On the other 6, the words on the form are yours to write and to check, and their own pages say so. Smartwaiver: "No, Smartwaiver is not a legal service so you should contact your attorney or insurance company if you need assistance drafting the legal language for your waiver." WaiverSign hands you a tattoo and piercing template as a starting place and adds: "It is the responsibility of the user to ensure that all document templates and the signing process comply with all applicable laws and regulations."

WaiverForever: "Requirements vary by location and use case, so we recommend having a legal professional review your final waiver for your jurisdiction." Waiver Electronic's guide to a tattoo consent form: "Studios should have their final form reviewed against the laws and health regulations that apply in their state or local jurisdiction." Wavrr drafts a starting form from your shop's location, its privacy policy says, and its help pages put the checking on you: "You are responsible for making sure your consent text meets the rules in your country or state." StabPad's sample release was written in Australia and names the courts of NSW.

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

Where does the signed waiver live?

On ours, it's written once, the moment your client finishes, kept in your dashboard and emailed to you at the same moment. Your client list exports as a spreadsheet any day, including the day you leave.

WaiverForever says "Your waivers are stored forever." Waiver Electronic: "All signed waivers are stored indefinitely with unlimited storage across all paid plans." Smartwaiver keeps yours "as long as you have an active Smartwaiver account", and the signer gets a link to their copy that works for 3 days. WaiverSign lets you export them at any time and deletes them after you close your account.

Wavrr keeps them in the European Union, and on Wavrr "the client's copy does not arrive until you have signed too." StabPad keeps nothing: the form goes out by email to you and your client, and its privacy page says "No photo IDs, signatures are ever permanently kept on the server."

What else comes with each one?

A client list comes with all 7. After that, they part ways.

Texting. Ours texts your clients from your shop's own number with Pro, $150 a year on top, each text drawing 1.5 cents from a balance: the thank-you with the aftercare link, the touch-up check-in, the review ask, and messages you write yourself, like a flash day, each to the clients who ticked the box for it. WaiverSign sends automated texts and emails too, and its pages print no price for the texts. WaiverForever texts each customer their signed waiver on its paid plans and groups customers for marketing. Smartwaiver texts a client the link to sign, on a paid plan, and Waiver Electronic sends the link by text and hands texting campaigns to Klaviyo. Wavrr's and StabPad's pages offer no texting.

HIPAA. A shop that bills a health plan for its work, like areola tattooing after surgery, needs a business associate agreement from whoever keeps its records. Ours is HIPAA mode, on top of your plan. Smartwaiver has a HIPAA addendum, and "If your organization needs Smartwaiver to sign a custom BAA, you must be on a Business plan or higher." Waiver Electronic says it is HIPAA compliant, and none of its pages names an agreement. WaiverSign's terms leave it to you, and the pages of Wavrr, WaiverForever and StabPad don't mention it.

Deposits and bookings. Ours takes deposits at yourshop.deposits.tattoo where your state allows it, and gives you a booking page at yourshop.bookings.tattoo. Waiver Electronic does both too, with online booking, payments and deposits, and per Square's listing it saves each signer to your Square customer list. WaiverForever takes payments through Square, deposits among them. Wavrr says plainly that it "is not a booking system, so it does not manage your calendar or take deposits." Smartwaiver takes no payments and books through partners like Mindbody, and WaiverSign through its sister reservation system.

Lot numbers. Wavrr's ink passport records "brand, colours, supplier and batch number, per session." Ours keeps the lot numbers and expiration dates of the needles, tubes, cartridges and inks on each signed waiver.

Where the others win

StabPad is free, and says it always will be. WaiverForever has a free plan of 20 a month. Smartwaiver, WaiverForever and Waiver Electronic keep collecting at a kiosk with no signal, and Smartwaiver connects to booking and email tools. Waiver Electronic lets a client sign in any of 50+ languages and syncs with Square. WaiverSign connects to "2,000+ apps with Zapier". Wavrr has apps for your phone and tablet, and its ink passport.

Every one of the 7 collects a signature. What a tattoo shop gets asked for later is what the form asked before the signature: the health questions, the ID, the parent's consent, whatever your state's rule lists. That's the question this page comes down to, and ours answers it for you: your state's questions come with the form, the signed waiver stays in your dashboard, and the price is the same $50 a year whether you sign 50 waivers a month or 500.