Scratch cards bring excitement and anticipation. Not knowing the reward hiding behind the cover increases the mystery and users can't help but scratch to figure out their reward. Let's look at a few examples of how they are used in mobile apps.

Examples of mobile app scratch cards

Google Pay

Perhaps the best known example that made scratch cards popular in the first place, Google Pay uses scratch cards after every transaction a user makes. The logic behind the app's scratch card is to provide customers with a chance to earn rewards for using the app. These rewards are randomly generated and can vary in value.

PhonePe

PhonePe is a popular mobile payment and financial services app in India. Users can scratch these virtual cards within the app to reveal their prizes, which can include cashback, discounts, or other offers.

Myntra

"MynCash" from Myntra scratch cards typically refers to the digital wallet balance or cashback that users can accumulate by scratching Myntra's virtual scratch cards.

This MynCash can be used to make purchases on the Myntra platform, essentially functioning as a store credit or cashback.

Challenges faced while creating scratch cards in mobile apps

Developers need to build the core mobile app. They don't really have the time to keep adding and changing scratch cards (text, designs, targeting, etc).

On top of that, every new experiment with a scratch card takes 2 weeks to build, another 2 weeks to make the app release, and another month or so to understand whether your scratch card achieved the desired engagement.

Plotline enables creation of scratch cards, fully no-code

Plotline helps product and marketing teams in high-growth consumer companies create and deploy scratch cards that match your design theme. It also provides powerful event-based targeting and user segmentation to help the right user take the right action at the right time.

Apart from scratch cards, you can use other UI elements like tooltips, spotlights, stories, PiP videos, etc., to engage your users effectively.

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