Android Pay
The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+8.0). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.
HTTP liveness
realSignal telemetry
4 families · 1 observed · observed onlyandroid.googleblog.comedge
direct originserver
GSETranco rank
unranked
Analyst read
generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrativeAndroid Pay's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://android.googleblog.com/2015/05/pay-your-way-with-android.html) when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 3 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.
Comparable set
curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity| Company | Basis | Overlap | Pulse | 30d Δ | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payoneerfinance | curated | — | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| Apple Payfinance | curated | — | 40.0 | +32.0 | ● live |
| Dashproductivity | curated | — | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| OpenTable- Paymentsfinance | similar | 80% | 17.6 | 0.0 | — unverified |
| Card Controlfinance | similar | 80% | 13.1 | 0.0 | — unverified |
| Bytes - MasterCard hopes to make your next purchase as easy as taking a selfiefinance | similar | 80% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| SWYPfinance | similar | 80% | 40.0 | 0.0 | ● live |
| payQwiqfinance | similar | 80% | 8.0 | 0.0 | — unverified |
Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.
Structure
observed attributesFunding & team
not in sourceNo disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.